Archive for September, 2005

Big Comprehensive Thought-Roundup

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

I’m trying to collect my thoughts on whether I should run windows or linux for my primary home desktop OS.
There’s a couple things spurring this … the main one is that I can’t seem to find a music player in windows that I’m happy with. I’m not sure I’ll be happy with any of [...]

omg cacti

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

So I reinstalled cacti (see also: http://archlich.dyndns.org/cacti-public/ ) and phpsysinfo (see also: http://archlich.dyndns.org/phpsysinfo. And, in a random whim, I changed the graph reading from bits to bytes on the traffic graphs (because bytes are more intuitive in general).
And I did this in opera, and then went to look at my handiwork, and got a [...]

Fast times at broken-lcd high

Monday, September 26th, 2005

STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!
*breathe*
Ok. Here’s what the deal is.
I packed up on saturday evening to head in to work, figuring “I’ll put in a bunch of hours, and life will generally be good”. Did the normal “leave the apartment” stuff: got dressed, brushed teeth, put wallet in pocket, put keys [...]

planning is good

Saturday, September 17th, 2005

So, three interesting things happened at work in the last 2 days.
First one’s that my purchases got approved. So we’ll be running legal licenses of WinRAR, and we’ll be getting 2 more copies of Creative Suite 2. Both of these are good consequences, but the biggest consequence is that we’re getting a pair [...]

sexism even in manga?

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

So, I was just thinking about this …
in the latest episode of Bleach, BleachSociety translates a line as something to the effect of “even though she’s a woman, she rose to the third seat” (so basically the person below the vice-captain of a court guardian squad).
This is … interesting, because it implies that there weren’t [...]