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If anybody’s noticed slow down in the Internet today, there’s a worm DOSing a good portion of the net. I noticed this when I got home last night…

Back home, safe and sound! :)

Just a test entry to see if the new code is working. I think this will be much better than the last version. I have moved to a tableless design, am making the HTML code XHTML 1.0 compliant, and trying to give it a cleaner layout in general.

Thankfully, a judge had some common sense and threw out the lawsuit that blamed McDonald’s for obesity in children. Unfortunately the dillhole plaintiff will be re-filing in a month. GET A LIFE!

According to the tv commercial I just saw, Kotex wings are “more secure than an e-mail password”. Not only is this an absolutely horrible comparison, I can’t believe they are comparing wings to an email password. And that’s disregarding the fact that most email passwords are not secure. Anybody - when was the last time you changed your email password? Wait…do you even know your email password? That’s what I thought… ;-)

Why can’t people like this just shoot themselves?! In other news, US citizens give up more of their rights: TSA suggests that you help prevent the need to break your locks by keeping your bags unlocked (unless you are transporting a firearm). If your bag is unlocked, then TSA will simply open the bag and screen the bag. However, if the bag is locked and TSA needs to open your bag, then locks may have to be broken. I really don’t appreciate this. They went through my bag last week and left a nice little flyer telling me they had done so. So, not only can they open my bag at their will now, they are completely authorized to break the lock. In addition, they offer no guarantee whatsoever about missing contents. ...

Sweet! I just finished a script that parses my Internet Explorer favorites into a MySQL query that inserts all the links into my database. I’ll write an interface for you to peruse the links at your leisure soon! Yea, I know - I’m a dork. Update: You can see a random selection of my links off to the left each time you reload the page.

The weather sure is nice down here in Alabama! When I was driving around Saturday morning back in Chicago, my car told me it was 1 degree F. Brrrr….landing in AL, though, the pilot said it was 59 degrees. Much more agreeable!

Would anybody be willing to donate one of these beauties. I really want an OS X machine, but of course…I don’t want to spend the money on it. Why do I want one, do you ask? Well, I’ve been reading Jeremy’s blog a lot recently. He’s been using his TiBook for quite a while now and has actually mostly switched. Personally, I just want to try OSX for the heck of it, not to mention the cool things I’ve seen people do with it. I apparently can’t stop thinking about it, either. ...

OK - I may get some flames for this, but here is why BSD is superior to Linux. grin