Karma

God DAMN!

Apparently, even though you have phasers that you can set to stun, people are too stupid to just knock out their opposition when they have them outgunned and they’ve stood down (although not relinquished their weapons) Even after you’re shocked that the bad guys still shot one of your men.
Pig and Elephant DNA Just Don’t […]

Woo! I just got my first attempt at comment spam since moving to wordpress.
It properly noticed that it was questionable and flagged it for moderation, so now you’re all safe from finding out about the “puppy nickel easy double keno”
I know you’re crushed.

So once again, we find ourselves discovering what bizarre things people search for, winding up at my blog instead. And while we’re at it, we add those terms again, so that even more suckers get drawn in. It’s a viscious cycle.
“pybloxsom” - Ok, I used to use it, I talked about it, that’s understandable
“pybloxsom hacking” […]

So finally, after far far too much back-and-forth, everything’s all booked for GUADEC.
Nick & I will be flying up together, but separating at Frankfurt; he will take the train to Stuttgart, while I take a flight. The age-old battle will begin, and supposedly there’s a beer on the line. Either way, we’ll meet up at […]

Every time I think I’ve seen everything, something new crops up to drive me nuts. I’m dealing with this batshit crazy configuration file that other people have pieced together and layered hack after hack on.
It irritates me dealing with keys named things like “FOO”, “FOO2″, “FOO3″, etc. I understand where it comes from; you didn’t […]

They never taught us anything this useful when I was in high school…

All the cool kids are doing it, so I’ll do it over here in my little corner of the world where nobody will actually see it:

It’s actually a fairly decent likeness.