Here you can get the .css file that I use to block ads.

It does a bunch of wonderful stuff, such as blocking out ads that share those certain features that 99.9% of ads feature, strikeouts shocksites like goatse and tubgirl, coloring java and javascript links green, and putting a nice little e-mail icon next to e-mail links.

Enjoy!

Who would have thought?

Hey, CA could certainly do a lot worse; Arnold is a competent businessman, very adept at managing public image and dealing with the press.

Does that mean he's going to be a good "governator"? Maybe, maybe not. Politicians rarely get to pick and choose what happens in real life during their term of office.

I wish him luck. California has felt a lot of pain in the last couple of years, and a little good fortune seems overdue there.

... Your privacy is very important to us. It's so important, MISTER JOHN A SMITH, that we have spent large sums on things like SSL for web transactions.

Enclosed are several blank checks, MISTER JOHN A SMITH, which you could use for things like balance transfers, or to peform HOME IMPROVEMENTS on your HOUSE which is located at 123 MAIN STREET!

As part of the engineering group at a wholesale bandwidth provider, I get the joyful task of receiving, a few times a week, complaints about spam.

The ironic part is, I have nothing to do with them. A user sees one of my routers in a traceroute, and fires off a rude message.

The rude ones, I delete. Just part of the job; much like working in a restaurant and having to clean up after a drunk now and then.

I've occasionally downloaded large-ish documents on computer -- typically large PDF's, technical reports, and the like, but also occasional works of fiction or reference.

But it's hard to read 'em. It's not my monitor, I have an uber-leet 20" LCD panel. Um, two, actually. It's just that I don't normally sit and stare at a computer screen without interacting with something. Actually sitting back and reading a novel on your computer? Does anyone do it?

I'm thinking about getting the mindstorm thing for my son. Really, it's not for me. Not completely, anyway.

He's a very bright eight-year-old, but I'm not quite sure he's ready for that level of complexity. Anyone have comments on how well kids catch on to those?