furtive explorations

Goddamn Ficus Plant Should Come With Instructions ALBUQUERQUE, NM--According to area resident Howard Braddock, 44, the goddamn ficus plant in the sun room ought to come with some basic fucking instructions as to what to give it and when. "I'm either overwatering it or underwatering it," said Braddock of the dying plant. "But unless I get myself either an owner's manual or a Ph.D in botany, I may as well just flip a friggin' coin." Braddock further noted that whatever the hell's wrong, three leaves fall off every time he even so much as breathes on the damn thing.

I want url shortcuts for citing, (ie <$C:slashdot$>) would get me a link to slashdot.org in cite tags. Also, keywording, more flexibility for layout (maybe even layout smarts like the text conversion stuff that Jorn was talking about months ago.

Also I just noticed that the "by nickname" thing was blank because I never set up a nick on pyra for blogger to use. Doh!

One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.

Imagine what I could do if I could really touch type. =) This sort of thing is helping me learn. I'll try and keep this up a few days and see where it goes. I'm already amazed how much better my keyboarding is.

And to continue in the do it yourself vein Why not invent new eyes? This must be the research that Stevie Wonder is relying on to give him vision soon.

I need a ground up HTML4.01 reference for my sister and others I'm enticing onto the web. So in a grand net tradition, I'm writing my own. Look for it at http://www.hostile.org/tut/

Plenty of corporomancy in the air this week, as pundits
attempted to guess the future by observing movements in the
heavens. AOL entered into conjunction with the
Time Warner constellation, prompting the prophet of
slashdoterati, Jon Katz, to doomsay the end of the world.
Microsoft was occluded by Caldera in a $150 million plus
settlement in the DR-DOS case, followed by the declension of
now ex-CEO Bill Gates, to be replaced by a Steve Ballmer
ascendant in the astro-organisational charts. But do stellar
movements like this have any bearing on life in the real
world? After all, there's not much evil AOL Time Warner
can wield that they couldn't have managed in their slightly
less fat bastard previous incarnations. And the
Gates/Ballmer shuffle was just the final precession of
Bill's longterm move from daylight operations at MSFT, all
the better to skulk in preparation for the DOJ split.