Saturday, January 25, 2003

Floatsam I don't remember where these came from, but here they are: Motivational Quotes of the Day SlashNOT Todays SlashNOT is humorous (Microsoft completes purchase of Klez) when considering last nights problem with MS SQL DDoS attacks. Comments () 4:19:40 PM

Radio Comments Thanks to Phillip Pearson and his Comment Monitor [via Nicholas Riley], I understand the format used by the Radio comment server a whole lot better. Here are the Ztuff Comments and the raw dump from the Radio comment server. Comments () 4:05:16 PM

Super Bowl XXXVII Letdown I just realized that we're going to have to listen to John Madden for three plus hours if we want to watch the Super Bowl. I listened to one Monday Night Football telecast this year and it was depressing. After a little while I switched to the radio feed from Green Bay. Sarah can't decide whether she wants to go to Magic Mountain tomorrow or stay home and watch the show (and under the circumstances, I'm dithering a bit too, but I know I'll watch). I have no idea what the kids want to do. The game has a decent chance of being good, although I'd venture that more than half the people who see some part of the game could care less who wins. The Super Bowl has become an American mid winter party. In between nearly six hours of talking heads and commercials, they'll actually show almost sixty minutes of American football (where feet are only infrequently used). If you count all the slow motion replays, there will be almost 70 minutes of football. The day after, the actual game will be forgotten by most, but discussion will rage about the best new commercials and stories will float around about all the crazy things that happened at the parties. Some day, the football hype will fade and we'll have to come up with a new way to celebrate American Corporation Day. Me? I just want to watch the damned football game. Comments () 3:45:16 PM

Week in review I ought to rename this the weekend blog, or maybe the once in every blue moon blog. Oh, it's been busy. This week I had jury duty, which was interesting. I was called to sit through the jury selection process for one trial, but was never brought into the inquisition phase. There went one day. I finished reading "The Summons" (which was appropriate) and have started back through the whole John Ryan series starting with "The Hunt For Red October". We had a new engineer in from Atlanta, and spent a lot of time with him, just getting him up to speed on things. We're having a department meeting in a couple of weeks to talk about what we're all doing and where we are on it. So I've been working on fleshing out a lot of ideas and putting together presentations on several different things. I spent most of yesterday reading and working on documentation and then chasing down a rats nest of related bugs. I'll have to go back and work on that some more later today. Oh yeah, I learned how to put a custom icon on a page in a browser. Browsers are looking for 'favicon.ico' (I'd been wondering about custom icons and noticed all the icon requests in the server logs). Comments () 3:20:05 PM

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