Month: January 2005

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The new Battlestar: Galactica

Like many other sci-fi geeks around the country I was tuned into SciFi’s Battlestar: Galactica. The series started off with two episodes back to back. It’s part drama, part sci-fi series. Watching the LowDown show that came just before the gave me the distinct impression that it was going to be more soap opera/drama than pure sci-fi. More like B5 than separate standalone episodes like the original BG series. The tone and style was set by the mini-series, and continues in the series. Cylon infiltration, sabotage, spies and traitors. And that was just the first two episodes.

I’m going to enjoy watching this new series. With it sandwiched between Stargate: SG1 and Stargate: Atlantis, Friday nights are going to be a veritable orgy of sci-fi.

One thing I do find odd is how religious the new Cylons seem to be. Somewhat unexpected for a machine intelligence. Maybe we’ll discover the reason behind it in later episodes.

You can even read Ron Moore’s Movable Type powered blog to find out his take on the episodes.

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Random Med Student quote

If you look hard enough, you can always find a free lunch

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Tron 2.0

No, not the video game.
From SciFi Wire comes news that Disney is remaking TRON. Should be interesting to see what kind of story they come up with and the liberties the screenwriters take with the original TRON concept.

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Referer spam

Lately I’ve been getting a lot of referer spam: hits to web pages on the server using spammy HTTP_REFERER URLs. Most of them for some reason are hitting non-existent scripts and pages, but there are a bunch of them hitting things like my photo galleries and such.

It’s gotten to the point where the Referring URL stats collected by Awstats is pretty much useless because all the ‘Links from External Pages’ is nothing but a list of spammy URLs.

Not entirely sure what the point of it all is. But I’m not the only one.

I wonder if there’s a way to tap into the MT Blacklist database to block them. Something I’ll have to think on.

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Half way to decrepit

Tomorrow I will be 35. A few years ago, I thought people who were 35 were old. Now I’m one of those people. There are days where I start feeling the years. Lately that’s been happening more often than previous years.
This year I’m determined to get back to the more active lifestyle I had when I was in my 20s. I think having a dog around will do a lot towards that. What I really want to do is get back into cycling, but that will probably have to wait at least another year until we get a little more financially settled after getting this house. In the meantime I’ll have to settle for getting back to the running thing. Maybe I’ll try for the Cooper River Bridge Run next year. I’ve always been more of a 5k person though. Never really been much good at the 10k distance, but there’s always a first time for everything!
Yes, Bridge Run 2006. That will be a good goal to shoot for.