Month: February 2007

  • Reason #32768 why Myspace sucks: Paranoid session validation gone wild!

    Ok, so I figured out (one of the reasons) for my long-held assertion that “MySpace.com doesn’t work in any browser”. Short story: On first visit, the site records your browser version and other information. If any of this information changes while you’re surfing, they kick your ass out! Naturally, due to some fun toys on…

  • TranceVibe Take Two: So, what are they doing that I’m not doing?

    After getting busy with all kinds of other stuff for…heh, a year…, I started thinking back on the Drmn’ TranceVibe project. My grandmaster plan was to “mass” (qty: 20 or so) produce them and see if they’d sell. Anyway, since the original design, a few small cost and manufacturability enhancements have been made: smaller SMD…

  • My_beloved__do_you_know.doc.prn.ps.prn.ps.pdf

    My dearest MS Word, Thank you again for a wonderful day. You know I’ve always loved your little quirks, like having to ADelete all but the first character of a paragraph I’m replacing, then when I’m finished go back and delete the first character, because as punishment for deviating from this sequence you will change…

  • Only in New England…

    me: “What idiot puts a PetCo and a PetSmart right next to each other?” JR: “Maybe they’re across the street from each other.” me: “Touche.” (The directions to get to a particular restaurant on it include a “drive past the restaurant, go three miles, pull a U-turn and backtrack three miles” step because there is…

  • Identification and Significance

    Okay folks, so that day is coming up next week. Normally, I’d assault your eyes with one of my customary valentine’s day rants (or miscellaneous cheese), but instead… This next week I am accepting applications* for a coffee date. For those who do not like coffee… too damn bad! I like coffee. Er, I mean,…

  • It’s Comcrapstic!

    Yesterday I was going over to GJM’s house to play with some DS networking stuff, so I said “Let me just email you the latest libraries and stuff and I’ll come over.” As I sat waiting, and waiting for only a few megs’ worth of files to send, I realized it would have actually been…

  • In the year 64AH…

    If I were president, I’d add a regular expression filter to the mass media that replaced every occurence of “In a post-9/11 world…” with “In a post-Hitler world…” as a simple demonstration of ridiculosity. Example: In this post-9/11 world… becomes: In a post-Hitler world, should we allow just any idiot with a radical idea to…

  • The Electric Slide: Considered Harmful

    So, today I make myself some lunch after some mildly off-pissing car stuff, and figure I’ll read some Slashdot while I eat. Anyway, just idly following links, next thing you know I’m buried deep in PDFs of legal filings. Lawyers nuking security sites by going after their domain registrars with DMCA threats (they can’t lawyer…