30 Jun 2001
“To boldly go where no gay man has gone before…“ Will the new Star Trek series have any gay characters?
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27 Jun 2001
OK Cola: “It’s hip to be brainwashed.” I never bought into the whole marketing ploy of this failed soft drink, but I dug the taste (and the kooky artwork). I drank several cans a day during the summer I worked at a prison outside the Twin Cities. Fruitopia was also test marketed that summer, but I never thought it would catch on (via The Stuffed Dog).
Miss the taste of OK Cola? Try this recipe — lately I’ve been drinking a mixture of 50% root-beer / 50% orange juice, which tastes remarkably like an orange cream soda.
27 Jun 2001
My campus experienced a power
My campus experienced a power outage Sunday night which resulted in 3 days of spotty cable, email, and internet access. If you sent me an email over the past 3 days, you might want to try resending it.
I’d like to think I can entertain myself without cable or the internet, but I would be wrong. I couldn’t find any books at the library which looked interesting enough to read.
25 Jun 2001
Monitor Disk Space PHP script
Monitor Disk Space PHP script. Just so that you all don’t think I just take and take and take (”Does anyone know where I can find….” whine, whine, whine…), I also can dish it out. Now anytime my /var partition starts rapidly filling up again (which is what keeps knocking my server offline), I’ll recieve a text message on my pager.
25 Jun 2001
Is there a moreover.com-style service for weather? I want to be able to easily download the local temperature every 15 minutes (without having to parse a webpage) so I can instruct my air condtioner to turn on or off (X10 switches rule).
I also want to find a lightweight program for my Windows-box that can use my modem every 15 minutes to see if there’s a stutter tone on the line (indicating voicemail), so I can automatically send a page to myself letting me know to check my phone.
25 Jun 2001
I can’t find any other mention of this on the web, but according to this blogger there’s supposedly going to be a follow-up Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Wishful thinking? If not, hopefully it will feature more of the actual film score.
25 Jun 2001
How to disable Smart Tags
How to disable Smart Tags. I hadn’t really been following all the fracas on Microsoft’s new “smart tags,” but after I saw this example of how tacky they look, you better believe I’m going to disable them (via boing boing).
Basically, you just insert the following HTML into your document: <meta name=”MSSmartTagsPreventParsing” content=”TRUE”>.
23 Jun 2001
Belly Button
Belly Button. This is quite possibly the scariest ad I’ve ever seen (my initial reaction was like that of the little boy in the commercial). Talking (singing) belly buttons? Was the ad agency behind this commercial smoking crack? Watching a few too many reruns of the Gong Show?
22 Jun 2001
Big Brother, the back seat driver
Big Brother, the back seat driver. A Connecticut man is suing a local car rental company after a $450 speeding fine, registered by the car’s internal GPS system, appeared on his credit card.