Yay, I got frostbite today! And no, I don’t mean the game (I’ve had that for a while now).
Cool. My face goes all puffy.
Hey! It tingles…
Ow! It burns! It burns!
Aaah. It’s okay now. I guess that’ll learn me for going out in -52°C weather.
Made some more progress on my style-sheet and page layout. My apologies to anyone that was here a few hours ago when the page was just a mess.
I think I’m getting a cold, and here I am staying up late just to smack around this stupid bird. Well, now you can, too. It’s already made the rounds at work, and apparently at Microsoft, too. Actually, you’ve probably already played it. There are two versions, this is the harder one, and yes, that’s my score.
In other news, download Xbench (you can thank me later). I used to buy my RAM at Crucial, but I might try my next purchase at transintl.
Me go sleepy time…
I managed to get the front page to validate as XHTML 1.1. Serendipity, the technology behind this blog site, have an admin option to turn on XHTML 1.1 compliance, and I just had to see how well it worked.
Well it wasn’t valid, but the errors were very minor: an extraneous slash here, a couple of incorrect attributes there, etc… Like I said; minor. All in all, I was a little surprised there were so few errors. Tentative thumbs up to Serendipity.
And that’s just the front page. I haven’t yet validated any of the other pages. That’ll take me awhile, as it’s pretty boring to do…
And while I’m ranting, you’d think if they write that Serendipity supports PostgreSQL databases that they’d, oh I don’t know, actually test it. Comments were broken straight out of the box, so I had to fix that.
…and shot. Actually, I’ve never really had a lot of trouble with spam. Oh sure, I get just as many requests for money transfers, offers for breast or penial implants, or just plain gibberish, as the next person, but I have a pretty laid-back way of dealing with it. I have a couple of junk e-mails I use for pretty much anything: signing on to forums, purchasing items on line, that sort of thing. I never check that mail except at the time of registration or purchase, and never with a POP mail program (i.e. only strictly with a web-mail service). My personal e-mail is just that… personal. Of course, that doesn’t stop the brute-force spammers who have probably already tried every permutation of an e-mail address possible.
At least that’s how I use to operate. Now that I’ve been running my own mail server for a couple of years now, I recently installed some technology to combat the luncheon meat. It’s been working so well, I’ve redirected all my e-mail through it. I’ve even managed to reclaim some old addresses I haven’t used in years because they’ve been so bogged down with spam.
Now when the odd spam gets through (ahem), I almost look forward to it. Gives me something to do. I could use this as a basis for a Master’s Thesis whenever I get back to school.
On a related note, is it “penial” or “penile?” My dictionaries seem to imply both are correct, but Mac OS X seems to only like “penile.”