Month: March 2008

  • More disappearing…

    So, all my last minute work shizzle is for the most part done. Some guys in Cali and a guy in DC will be receiving some (entirely unrelated) totally awesome, kick ass hardware. (The latter, also a hundred-plus-page brick of a Final Report, which he in all likelihood will not read.) So on Saturday, I…

  • Some very bulk

    OK, this has been a busy little while here, and I forgot that here is where I write what I’ve been up to so I don’t forget :-P And now I’ve forgotten. So, this is the last few months of real-life events… We last left off with Xmas in Massena, with Kr*’s folks (and, from…

  • LiveJournal Strike? (Don’t back-down, back-up!)

    Today, I logged into LJ (that drug I joined because All my Friends were Doing It), and found out that: a) As of yesterday (or some other near-term time), free accounts have been discontinued (new users join as Sponsored or Paid accounts) b) As of about-same-time, some unspecified changes to “Acceptable Content” policies, with the…

  • Disappearing act

    Going to be holed up at work most of this week finishing up two projects with immediate deadlines. Returning to civilization sometime after next Monday!…

  • Circle stickers on cars – gettin’ hip with ISO

    Sometime after moving to the east coast, I started noticing a few cars driving around with these black and white oval-shaped stickers bearing a random 3-letter code. At first I figured they were some kind of east-coast thing, maybe parking stickers identifying membership in a particular school district, etc. I didn’t think much of it…

  • Anonymizer.com Inc. and “Trademark Delusion”

    This week I got the following nastygram from Anonymizer.com Inc., a company that runs an anonymizing Web proxy, alleging trademark infringement. Subject: Trademark infringement From: “Jason Van Peeren” <withheld> Date: Mon, February 25, 2008 11:43 am To: <withheld> http://cexx.org/anony.htm I noticed that you are currently using our Trademark Term in a fashion that infringes on…