Hmm, just noticed that my weblog looks like crap under Netscape 7. It’s mostly ok in IE 6. Looks just fine in Mozilla/Firefox. I must have style sheet and DIV issues. Wish someone would tell me these things.
A piece of advice
A while ago, my wife was filling out this scholarship application online that involved writing some paragraph long answers to various questions. One of the questions went along the line of “What piece of advice would you give to high school students” or something like that.
So it got me thinking, what kind of advice would I give? It’s harder than you might think. After all, how do you give advice to an age group that thinks they know everything. Yes, you’ve all been there. How much advice did you listen to or take when it came from pepole older than you? Probably very little of it I bet.
Friday Five
If you…
1. …owned a restaurant, what kind of food would you serve?
Real authentic chinese food, with dim sum service on weekends.
2. …owned a small store, what kind of merchandise would you sell?
The kinds of things you might stop to buy on the way home, or in the middle of the night. Snacks, TP, diapers, drinks, batteries, that kind of thing.
3. …wrote a book, what genre would it be?
Hmm, sci-fi or fantasy I think.
4. …ran a school, what would you teach?
Physics, of course.
5. …recorded an album, what kind of music would be on it?
Probably instrumental stuff.
Blog spammers are back
Hmm, they’re back. And all from the same IPs the last few days (213.91.217.14, 213.91.217.15 and 213.240.200.127). Just today I’ve had to dump 3 comments that made it past the blacklist. It caught 6 of them in the past two days though. Added the domains to the blacklist, so they shouldn’t be back. Think I’ll have to work on some regexps to broaden the blacklist.
I have to question the intelligence of these guys. You’d think after they were blocked once, they’d get a clue.
Now, where did I put that cannon…
TB RAID, here I come
Wow, is this sweet or what. A 400 GB Hitachi Deskstar hard drive in a 3.5″ form factor. SATA and ATA interfaces too. And to think, just a little while ago I was happy as a clam when I stuck the 160 GB drive into my computer. Now with just 3 drives, I can have over 1 TB of storage at my fingertips.
The specs look reasonably decent. 8.5ms seek time isn’t great, but for something this size it’s not bad.
Let’s hope that Hitachi’s fixed the early drive failure problem that IBM was having with the Deskstar line.
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