November 2004

  • A Little Too Young

    We've all heard the stories of older people – men or women – having sex with younger (underage) ones. And while that doesn't exactly float my boat, if you know what I mean, it's not too much of a stretch to imagine a 16-year-old boy wanting a woman…

  • Coke or Coke

    It seems that there are some who have immigrated from Mexico (used to be we would call them immigrants, but that just isn't PC) who prefer the taste of their native Coca-Cola – hereafter referred to as Mexican Coke – to the corn-syrup sweetened American variety. This is…

  • Who Did we Elect?

    There are plenty of voting problems in North Carolina, but they nearly pale in comparison to those in Santa Ana (California). Apparently the voters there elected a near-unknown to a position on the school board. Steve Rocco had apparently failed in at least two previous political campaigns (though…

  • A Nonillion is Big

    Mark Minasi's latest newsletter talks about a nonillion (and a half) of possibilities if you have a 15-character passphrase of all lowercase letters. Mark has some good ideas, and this one isn't necessarily a bad one….

  • Democratic Leanings

    This map graphically shows which counties voted for which candidates in the last two presidential elections. What I first found interesting was the amazing amount of red (Republican) counties. Looking at the comparison of square miles won in this election, Bush had a whopping 2.51 million. Meanwhile, Kerry…

  • Voting in North Carolina

    I mentioned previously that North Carolina had no-excuse early voting. Simply show up at one of the appointed locations, cast your vote, and you're done. The idea sounds pretty sweet. The problem is that we don't seem to be able to handle it. You can't handle the votes!…

  • Skinning Movable Type

    Arvind has taken the dutchpink update to the Movable Type interface and built a hack that should make it easier to add other skins in the future. I haven't installed it, but it appears that you'll need PHP for the hack, and also need to make some updates…

  • Bloglines Toolkit in Portuguese

    With special thanks to Antonio from the Mozilla Portuguese Translation Project, there is now a Portuguese translation of the Bloglines Toolkit. Antonio tells me that he has tested this version in Mozilla and Firefox, under both Windows and Linux, and that it looks good. This translation shares the…

  • Smartphone ActiveSync

    I had some problems getting ActiveSync to work with my new phone, the Audiovox SMT 5600. Then I had problems getting it to work securely. I'm happy to say that I've finally managed to get it all working. My first problem was that I couldn't get a connection…

  • An Apostrophe Lesson

    There's been more than one time that I've driven past a business that doesn't know how to use the apostrophe. For instance, many times I've seen the sign out in front of The Window Pros. Presumably, the business name is short for The Window Professionals. Strangely enough, their…