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Plastic Paranoia Tuesday, October 29, 2002 3:41:48 PM EDT Can somebody from Microsoft please explain the purpose of the bulletproof, waterproof, can't-be-opened-without-a-chainsaw plastic womb that Windows XP ships in? 
I've got a computer that I'm trying to upgrade from NT 4.0 to XP Pro and instead, I've been sitting here for the past 15 minutes attempting, in a most frustrating way, to just get the damn package open! My heavy sissors wouldn't cut it, so I resorted to a large screw driver and brute force. As you can see, I eventually did get it open, but not without a truckload of expletives being directed at Microsoft and nearly slicing my finger wide open. I've been trying to come up with possible reasons for the purpose of packaging a package within well...another package and I just keep coming up blank. I thought perhaps it could be that Microsoft doesn't want me to recieve my copy of XP in anything but pristine condition. Which initially it was, but by the end of my ordeal the actual XP box was pretty well beat up. Besides, I can go down to the grocery and buy a box of Raisin Bran and they aren't encased in titanium and the box is nearly always perfect. So no, that can't be it. Then I thought hmmmm, that leaves only paranoia. Yep. Microsoft must be afraid that I'll open that box and make a copy of the disc then carefully put the software back in the box and replace it on the shelf. This sort of stuff is as dumb as the idea some genius thought of for sealing CD jewel cases. It takes nearly as long to get that stupid piece of tape off of the edge of one and it NEVER comes off in one piece, no matter how carefully you try. Posted by: Marc 
Gut Rumbles Makeover Monday, October 28, 2002 3:10:58 PM EDT Congratulations to one of my favorite blogs - Gut Rumbles for a very spiffy looking new page design by Sekimori. Acidman is always very entertaining to read and sometimes he even gives away fabulous prizes too! Believe it or not, I was his 25,000th hit. Woohoo, I'm a winner! But seriously, way to go A-man. I think it looks great! No more blogspot blues for you! Posted by: Marc
Dude, You're Gettin an F! Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:16:52 PM EDT Mr. Intelligentsia spews forth some elitist prose. Posted by: Marc
Bullseye? Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:54:05 PM EDT Let's hope investigators are on the mark with these two. Posted by: Marc
Let's Not be Hypocritical Now Tuesday, October 22, 2002 09:16:40 AM EDT Neil Boortz points out a strange anomoly in the dems fabric. Over at the Democratic Underground they're instituting a lock-down on free speech until after the elections: "For the next three weeks:Yeah, that's a good strategy, make everyone bury their head in the sand until the big bad mmonster goes away. UPDATE: In ”Fun With Morlocks”, Robin Goodfellow describes the experience of being caught in this "democratic" dragnet, and getting kicked off the DU message board. Fortunately though, the posts that were the apparent cause of the ejection were saved for us. Go have a look. ANOTHER UPDATE: Boortz gets the finger from The Democratic Underground. Gee, what's wrong kids? Did mean 'ol Mr. Boortz hurt your feewings? Posted by: Marc
I'm not through with her yet... Monday, October 21, 2002 12:36:50 PM EDT Mark Steyn assists in having a little more fun at Barbara's expense in this article from Saturday. Here's a teaser:
This is something that I've noticed (and been surprised by) too. Why is the left suddenly trotting out any and every entertainment celeb on the planet as their "spokespeople"? What makes them think that I would believe that Woody Harrelson or Harry Bellafonte has a keener sense of political right and wrong than I do? But Ms. Streisand is in my opinion, the unfortunate poster child of this odd phenomenon and she predictably seems to stumble every time she makes an attempt at promoting her leftist cause. Her humorous missteps only serve to shine a beaming spotlight on the weakness of the left's point of view. Posted by: Marc
The F Scale Friday, October 18, 2002 12:06:49 PM EDT I found a link on Dustbury's blog regarding a test called "The F Scale", described on the site thusly:
Naturally, I couldn't resist taking the test either. My score? 3.6 which apparently determined that "You are disciplined but tolerant; a true American." Hmm...I always thought so. Posted by: Marc
Quit That Barbara! Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:09:41 AM EDT How many times do I have to tell her that she really needs to stay mum. Matt Drudge adds another misstep to his timeline:
You're too much Babs... Posted by: Marc
Cool / Not Cool Blog Chart Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:36:46 AM EDT I liked this post from the Gimpysoft blog. One of these days, maybe QT will make the chart. Hopefully somewhere up in the "Cool" region. Posted by: Marc
The cat is purring Wednesday, October 16, 2002 5:11:06 PM EDT I've now added in the archival functionality. Well, I should say that I'm testing the archival functionality. I adopted a method for doing it that may eventually bite back, but at least it seems to work and will allow my posts to actually be recallable in the future. I also added a comments feature from Haloscan that I'll try out for a while. This was a clear cheat on my part, since I've gone third party with it, but that too may change down the road. We'll see. So comment away if you'd like...the cat is purring along nicely again. Posted by: Marc
My Blogger Code Friday, October 4, 2002 2:52:39 PM EDT Hmm...apparently my blogger code is: B1 d++ t++ k++ s u f i- o+ x e+ l-- c+ It can be decoded here. Posted by: Marc
Gotta pet the cat Friday, October 4, 2002 11:43:00 AM EDT My blog entries will be sparce for the time being, as I'm starting to get back into the SimCat groove again. I'm writing the comments and archival functionality for the blogger now, so I don't have too much time to spend on actually posting entries...but I shall return soon. Posted by: Marc
She wouldn't listen Wednesday, October 2, 2002 2:37:01 PM EDT I tried to tell her, but Barbara wouldn't listen. Now she's done it again. Doesn't this woman know when to quit? Posted by: Marc
I'm a Winner! Tuesday, October 1, 2002 4:07:17 PM EDT Got this in my email today: Dear Marc, First of all, I know that I NEVER signed up to be a member of some place called "Your Free Present". Aside from that, what information did they buy about me that would have suggested that I'd go for one of these fabulous prizes? I don't have kids, and I certainly don't fit the demographic for this type of thing. Sometimes I wonder if email is a sign of progress or regress...on second thought, that Scooby Doo backpack does sound kind of cool eh? Posted by: Marc
An interesting analogy Tuesday, October 1, 2002 2:29:58 PM EDT The Junkyard Blog has a very intersting analogy pertaining to the US presence in the middle east. Are we lifeguards or policemen? Posted by: Marc
Shut up Babs Tuesday, October 1, 2002 11:45:50 AM EDT I found this over at Philip Murphy's The Invisible Hand blog. He intelligently dissects Barbara Streisand's recent faxed memo to Dick Gephardt. The memo is riddled with bad typos, she even misspelled Gephardt (Gebhardt). Why can't she just stick to mediocre singing? ....here's another Streisand post from ToneCluster. This is rich. Oh man, she's just too much. I'd be willing to bet that she has more money than 99% of Republicans too. Posted by: Marc
Just Maybe... Tuesday, October 1, 2002 11:03:34 AM EDT The Travelling Shoes blog offers the interesting possibility that Al Gore was seperated at birth. Posted by: Marc
Wow, I got noticed! How'd that happen? Monday, September 30, 2002 12:14:11 PM EDT Acidman Mars, from Gut Rumbles sent me an email to let me know that he linked my Road Rage Rant post from last week. Thanks Acidman! Here's his post about it. To top it off, The Group Captain Lionel Mandrake linked my post too. Thanks you guys, I'm most humbly honored. Posted by: Marc
Maybe I should just get one of these... Friday, September 27, 2002 10:38:22 AM EDT  A flying car! How cool is that? That would eliminate an awful lot of headaches eh? Posted by: Marc
Road Rage Rant Thursday, September 26, 2002 4:26:31 PM EDT I think I'll begin posting rants about road rage mostly because sometimes I think it's out of control. Last night, I was on my way home from a trip to Florida. I was flying back to Columbus from West Palm Beach and hurricane Isadore was pelting Atlanta with severe rain, which is where I needed to make a connecting flight. Apparently it was serious enough that I got stuck in WPB for several extra hours before we were cleared to takeoff. We finally did get to leave however and I even managed to make a connection on into Columbus from Atlanta, albeit several hours late. I was pretty miffed about the whole deal but happy to be home nonetheless. The plane into Columbus was a large Boeing 757, which carries 200+ passengers. Our flight was full and probably 1/3 of those passengers had their cars parked in the same parking lot where I had parked at the airport. Now since we all arrived at the same time, we were all leaving the parking lot at the same time and because of the late hour, there was only a single attendant on duty. Now, when 75 automobiles converge simultaneously from 4 or 5 directions and attempt to form a single file line, all hell can break loose. This is especially true when each of them has just undergone a dreadfully late flight and are eager to get home. Our situation should have been no exception to this observation and it was like a mad dash to buy Christmas gifts on Decmber 24th at Sears. Everyone was jockying for position. I was pleasantly suprised however that nearly everybody was very polite and the exodus became a very peaceful and democratic affair. Drivers from each direction took turns letting one car in front of them from another direction and this went on in a round robin fashion. That is until "guy in the red car" came along. This guy was a first class jerk. He tried to squeeze into the line right on the bumper of the car in front of him that had just been allowed in. The car that allowed the first car in however was going to have none of that nonsense and proceeded forward at the same time. As you can imagine, the two cars nearly collided and "guy in the red car" starts flipping the other guy off, yelling obsenities at him out his window and just being a blatantly obvious asshole. It was so outrageous to me that I nearly got out of my car and went over to lambast the jerk. It was 1 AM though, I was tired and I knew that a guy like that wasn't going to listen to reason anyway...so I just waited my turn and pondered the stupidity of some people...I despise those kinds of drivers and I really feel sorry for that guy's wife.  I imagine this is what "guy in the red car" does on a Saturday afternoon. Posted by: Marc
Ironic Isn't It? Sunday, September 22, 2002 4:04:54 PM EDT A 7 year old Palestinian girl gets a kidney from a Jewish bomb victim. Posted by: Marc
Just My Opinion Sunday, September 22, 2002 3:54:36 PM EDT The woman in this story ought to be horse whipped. She also needs professional help. Posted by: Marc
Carnival of The Vanities Sunday, September 22, 2002 3:47:25 PM EDT Now here's a good idea for bloggers... this could really help save me a lot of time. NOTE: This will only be of interest if you read a lot of other people's blogs... Posted by: Marc
You Go Girl! Sunday, September 22, 2002 3:33:16 PM EDT
Find the article here. Posted by: Marc
Media Bias Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:12:41 PM EDT Is there really a liberal bias in today's media? I've always thought so, although not as much as perhaps some people. here's an article by a Dartmouth professor that studied the situation and found that indeed there is! Posted by: Marc
Let The Games Begin Thursday, September 19, 2002 09:42:33 AM EDT Well, it looks as though Saddam has succeeded in distracting the world once again. It appears that the UN is going to give him up to twelve months to make good on his latest promise of allowing unfettered weapons inspections in Iraq. Just how many strikes do you get in this game anyway? Posted by: Marc
Iraq's Shell Game Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:22:21 AM EDT Uh-Oh, here we go again. Iraq claims that they'll allow UN inspectors back in to Iraq without conditions. You can find text of the article here.
Sorry, I'm not buyin it. This is roughly the same thing they said 11 years ago and nothing was resolved then. Besides, if you read the letter closely, it is not without conditions. Iraq expects sanctions to be lifted in return for letting inspectors back in. This is just a stall tactic. Iraq will just play another shell game with inspectors and drag it on for months, thus possibly giving Saddam enough time to finish building a nuke. Posted by: Marc
Link Sucker Saturday, September 14, 2002 05:37:11 AM EDT Today I wrote a fun little program. I call it Link Sucker. It works just like a Google search bot, it finds links on web pages. It's pretty cool too. I feed it only pages that I'm interested in, usually link-laden blogs, and it can suck the links off of even the largest ones in under a second. It strips the site description and the url and places each of them into a database. By manually selecting pages for it, the quality of the links tend to be better, but it could easily surf itself from link to link like a Google bot. You can see a sample of Link Sucker's handy work at my Meg-O-Links page. Welcome to SimCat, Link Sucker.... Posted by: Marc
I like horses Friday, September 13, 2002 5:41:36 PM EDT I'm still testing SimCat functionality. I've attached an image of one of my favorite subjects - a horse of course. 
Posted by: Marc
Friday the 13th Friday, September 13, 2002 11:25:18 AM EDT Today is Friday the 13th. Did you ever wonder how the superstition got started? Have a look at this. Posted by: Marc
Simcat Goes Online Friday, September 13, 2002 11:14:09 AM EDT Ok, so now that Simcat is ready to go to work, with this post it officially goes online. Yay Simcat! Posted by: Marc
Oh Really? Friday, September 13, 2002 10:16:33 AM EDT Yahoo has this report today. Iraq pounds its chest. Posted by: Marc
Working pretty good now Thursday, September 12, 2002 5:47:50 PM EDT SimCat is now fully operational. Sure there are lot's of options I plan to add, but at least it fully automates the process of creating a blog page. I'm likin it. Posted by: Marc
I'm now working on the Simcat edit pages... Thursday, September 12, 2002 4:30:53 PM EDT SimCat is coming along nicely. I've already built the add/edit pages for adding and editing (or deleting) new blogs and links. It's working pretty well. This is just another test post. Posted by: Marc
Adding isn't working right Thursday, September 12, 2002 10:02:55 AM EDT I'm trying to get the program to generate a unique id for each new entry. At the moment, it isn't cooperating very well. Posted by: Marc
Simcat Thursday, September 12, 2002 09:50:12 AM EDT This is just a test entry. The program I've been working on to automate this whole journaling thing is called Simcat. If you see this, it's doing it's job. Posted by: Marc
I'm tired of the TV Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:40:04 PM EDT Geez, seems like all they've done is run those same horrible images across the screen all day. I'm going out to walk the dog. Posted by: Marc
This is another test... Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:19:23 PM EDT You can disregard this if your want to, I'm just goofing around here. Working on SimCat, the simple catalog program. This app will be used to create and maintain a weblog. It's got a web based interface and generates an html file that can be ftped directly to a server. Posted by: Marc
911 Rememberance Wednesday, September 11, 2002 10:29:45 AM EDT It was one year ago today that The United States was attaked by terrorists. A day I'll never forget. Posted by: Marc
Just another day... Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:13:31 PM EDT I just wanted to say Hi. Not much going on at the moment. Just testing out the new blogger! Posted by: Marc
Another Blog Post Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:12:09 PM EDT Have you seen Wil Wheaton's Web Log? You know Wil, from Star Trek: The Next Generation? Go check him out! Posted by: Marc
I just wanted to try something Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:40:10 PM EDT I wanted to see how well it works to post a picture in here.  This is a shot linked in from the NY Times. The stone with the inscription is one of the original stones at the Pentagon when it was attacked. Posted by: Marc
GUI Stuff Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:13:56 PM EDT What's GUIStuff? GUIStuff offers you many free tools to create a great-looking website. You can download one of dozens of graphical interfaces, use our Flash, DHTML, and graphics generation tools to add spice to your page, and check out our tutorials section to learn how to design by yourself. Look over the menu below, or the bar on the left to begin. Go to GUI Stuff Posted by: Marc
Random Code Tuesday, September 10, 2002 02:14:28 AM EDT Buncha goofy code shoulda gone in here, but boy it screwed things up! Posted by: Marc
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