Just made an offer on a cute little house in West Seattle. I’m excited, because the price is reasonable and it is approximately the same commute distance to/from downtown Seattle. It’s the best house we’ve looked at, and it doesn’t appear to have anything “wrong” with it — at least, without an inspection. That’s up [...]

Not long ago, perhaps in the mid-1990’s, a young Japanese girl had a vision… (This link is safe.) I have no idea if this is legitimate — the person he references only has one hit on Google, and it’s at this site.

These may already exist, but I was not able to find them with Google (perhaps that itself means it doesn’t exist).

Interior pet door - Great for people who have pets that sleep with them, and still want their privacy. It would be installed by carefully cutting a rectangular hole on the opposite side from the [...]

I’ve added the Moderate Trackbacks plugin ot this blog. This means that trackback entries will now go in to the queue along witih posts, which means there may be a (significant) delay in them showing up. I’m not entirely sure how the whole trackback scheme is supposed to work, so bear with me on this.

When I played EverQuest, Saga of Ryzom, or Ultima Online, and now World of Warcraft, I primarily play solo. Most of these games are designed to play in groups. Often, that requires joining up with random, anonymous people you’ve never met before, and will never meet again. Given that your character in these games are [...]

So I’ve finally decided to buy a house. Well, I’ve decided to borrow enough money from the credit union to buy a house, in any case. If you’re looking, I’ve found Windermere’s PropertyPoint application very appealing. I can use it from work, even, because it isn’t Java or Flash. I probably won’t be using them [...]

If you ever find yourself in my situation, where installing some updated port from a relatively freshly done cvsup ends up breaking a couple dozen other programs because it decided to upgrade several libraries, you might find the following for loop useful:
cd /usr/X11R6/bin && for m in $(for l in $(for j in $(for i [...]