Someone doesn't like me. In one round of the Slashdot Message System, I got four negative moderations (1 Offtopic and 3 Overrated) on posts that were two days old:
I'm not particularly upset - that's what metamod is for, but I'd like to know who it is hates my posts so much.
The BBC has a short article about Sealand and Havenco. Probably the only thing that majority of slashdotters didn't already know is that HavenCo is running at a profit. Good to see a mainstream article on the subject, though.
According to this article at the Beeb, Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California at Berkeley and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington have discovered a planet in another solar system that is only 40 times the mass of Earth. Check out the California & Carnegie Planet Search website, too.
I had a hard time deciding between these two:
Yoda the Builder: Fix it, can we?
or:
Shaft the Builder: Can we dig it? Yes we can!
There were numerous variations on these. Yes, the US-dubbed version of Bob the Builder is back in our house, along with a BtB colouring book that came in Parents magazine.
Old sig was
<BR>-- <BR>fortune(6) favours the brave
Not the previous one, as promised, but one that is relevant to T(H)GSB of 4/21 - 4/27
<BR>-- <BR>Best of #28001: I'll be reposting all my +5 comments to random articles during the blackout.
Strictly speaking this isn't true. I'll be doing my best to observe the blackout.
For when I get bored of the rings, so to speak.
<BR>-- <BR>
fortune(6) favours the brave
Back to the old sig by popular demand.
<BR>-- <BR>What has it got on its portses?
Why Apple has won
Cringely's latest column tells how he tried to interview Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for a Vanity Fair article. He explains how winning means different things to the two men, and how both think they have "won".
Spoof Google site lets you "search" AIM logs
This site claims to have a searchable index of 5 years of AIM logs. Enter any two strings to enter the search. According to The Register's story on this, Google has already complained about the original version of the site infringing on their trademarks. The spoof site now calls itself Googol.
New sig:
Spam from MS: MCSA. It's how you spell "I'm a highly trained professional who knows exactly what I'm doing"
(too long with the "-- ")
Old sig:
<BR>-- <BR>What has it got on its portses, precious?
Old sig was:
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When encryption is outlawed
bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir rapelcgvba
New sig is:
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What has it got on its portses, precious?
The CNN headline "New Mexico church burns Harry Potter books" may seem bad enough, but worse is that only in the caption of the accompanying picture do they mention that the works of Shakespeare were also being burned.
Now, I'm as much of a Harry Potter fan as anyone of my advanced age, but this is like having a headline "Man arrested for speeding" and mentioning in a footnote that he killed three pedestrians.
Actually, Hilary Rosen is me. So is Anoriymous Coward. As someone who keeps acquiring karma, it's galling to keep hitting the ceiling at 50. So I have to keep creating new accounts to store it all in.
Is your job running? You'd better go catch it!
