Ever needed to use Sony's PS3 Support? I sure hope not. A month ago, I showed my wife "Little Big Planet." It seemed like a good game to play for a while. We brought it home. We played it right away and it was fun. The next day, it wouldn't play. I put the disk in, but nothing happened. I put in another game. Nothing. I put in a DVD. Nothing. I put in a CD. Nothing. Obviously, there was something wrong with the CD/DVD reader. So, I rushed to my file cabinet of receipts.

Every time anyone writes any article about how terrible China is, Slashdot is quick to post it. Woohoo!!! China is evil!!! Everyone look!!!

Now, the Chinese government has drastically cut back on Internet censorship. Wikipedia - a hellhole of free thought - isn't being censored at all. You can read about it on Google News or on Digg. Can you see it here on Slashdot? Of course not. It doesn't make China look evil enough. How pathetic.

What happens when I'm bored at work? I go back to failed projects I've worked on to see if I can get them to work. Just in time for New Years, I got WebPad working. It is not a replacement for wikipedia. It is a one-person online notepad for random notes that you can organize like wikipedia. Need a new page? Just add a link to an existing page and click on it. Now, I need to work on the regular expressions. It will b

I've been playing around with having the content of my webpage delivered in different styles since I first stuck a few lines of HTML together and viewed it with my Mosaic browser on my Amiga. I used server-side includes back then. Now, I use a combination of PHP, JavaScript, and CSS.

Usually the mass media is quick to link any two stories together to create the impression that there is a trend going on. In the past couple weeks, I've read stories of the rediscovery of many things once claimed extinct: a special grass in Santa Catalina, a snow leopard on Mt. Everest, a wildflower in Contra Costa County Park, and a woodpecker in Arkansas.
All of these species were listed as extinct years ago by ecologists. Are ecologists jumping the gun on calling species extinct? I r

I had an idea for a website. Surely, someone else has thought of this and already done it. The idea is to compare the cost of the crimes depicted in Hollywood movies to the amount they intended to make off the crime.

I posted this as a Slashdot Question, but I seriously doubt it will pass through the editors...

I am no longer supporting Opera. I've always been one to fight for cross-browser compatability, but not anymore. I've removed Opera from all of my computers. I've removed Opera from all of the computers that I administer at work. I've removed Opera from the local software repository. I'm also going to redirect Opera.com to a "Don't be so stupid" page on our local DNS.

Normally, I'd be pissed right about now, but I'm not.
I booted up my PC this past weekend and I got a system message from SmartD (the hard-drive monitoring daemon). It said that HDD had uncorrectable errors on it. It is a Maxtor, so I went to the Maxtor site and downloaded their harddrive checking utility, PowerMax. It reported an error code and said to email it to Maxtor support. I did and Maxtor support said the drive it about to die completely - so back it up quickly and replace it.

I like rules. I'm not completely OCD. I just like to take everyday situations and create a set of rules to govern what the best working options are.

I have an observation which could easily be a complaint if I actually cared about it, but I don't. So, it is just an observation. Every time I make a comment that others find Insightful or Interesting, it quickly shoots up to +5. However, it is normally followed a large number of replies intended to explain what a moron I am. It makes me wonder how many +5 Insightful Morons there are on Slashdot.

All great ideas come in pairs. No, not two ideas. The same idea comes from two people. One person gets the credit and the other gets angry. There have been some exceptions (like crediting both Newton and Leibniz with Calculus). But, why is this important?

Now that the election is over, I hope we can take Slashdot back from the political extremists. I want once again to be able to read comments without having it slip into a Kerry/Bush debate shortly after the idiotic First Posts.