Archive for January, 2008

Official “Most Pointless Error Message Ever” Nominee

tar: namedb/master/domain.com.DB: time stamp 2008-01-31 18:22:02 is 0.000371905 s in the future
It’s GNU-tastic!

Frames are the answer.

This is a few weeks old, but just in case you haven’t seen it: Wisdom from Gary.
Is it just me* or does this guy sound like a less intense Gene Ray?

Gary: “You have done nothing wrong. You were just taught a lie”
Gene: “You were educated to live an evil lie – and your heirs will [...]

dpk.net convention

I think I should hand out dpk.net Alexa ranking t-shirts at the next convention.

Garfield minus Garfield

Here is a link that was shared to me. I now share it to you.
Garfield minus Garfield. I see now it was already on digg. I’ve failed you all.

Houseless

The dpk-owning-a-house experiment has come to an end. Bought in a seller’s market, and sold in a buyer’s market, and I still came out ahead. Plus, I left the house in better shape than it was when I bought it. Everybody wins! Especially the excise tax board, sheesh.

wtf: iTunes license agreement font

I may or may not agree to the terms of the license, but I flat out refuse to agree to the use of a font that has an obvious gender.

The dpk CableHolderThing™ 5000™

Are you like the old me, tired of the cluttered mess of cables in your closet, or worse yet in your car or on the bus? Try the new dpk CableHolderThing™ 5000™*!

Here’s how it works. Just slip one end of a cable under one of the patent-pending elastic cords along the side, and wrap the [...]

I’m basically in love with Firefox 3

I’ve moved from Iceweasel to Firefox 3 beta4, and I’m in love. The bookmark handling is sweet. You can just edit a bookmark by going to the page and clicking on a little icon in the location bar. You can add and remove bookmarks right there, too. The save-password dialog box has been replaced with [...]