...Well, it was either going to be that or some cheesy nine lives reference. On the Possible Rebirth of Thousand Cats Anyway: Thousand Cats, as most of you know, pretty much died when its founders ( kettunainen and myself) embarked on a creative project of a different sort: parenthood. That sort of thing does tend to take up a lot of one's time and energy... But it's been a while, and...

Originally Posted at Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog . In 1995, Boris Yeltsin slipped away from his Secret Service detail in Washington. They found him in his underwear on the White House lawn, trying to hail a cab. A bank sent confidential information about clients to a random GMail address by mistake. They then sued Google, in an attempt to force them to reveal the recipient’s...

[Continued from here .] Sunday: Started the day with an excellent warm cinnamon bun with apples at Steak Frites, plated as though it was a dinner entree. Given all of the great food I had over the long weekend, I don't know why something so simple impressed me, but it did. Attended the "Neil Gaiman and Gary K Wolfe in Conversation" panel, which ended up simply being a fascinating conversation between...

Late last month, this LJ turned four. I still think of it as "new" from time to time; I came to blogging* quite late in Internet time. But the Friends page is indispensable for me; it is the number one thing I use to track things on the Internet, and the reason LJ is the only website I directly pay money to. I am following 183 blogs, communities, and feeds, of which I would say two thirds are active...

Originally Posted at Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog . Good morning. Today’s breaking news: Baboons have developed a taste for human underwear, and now go on panty raids. You have been warned. Are we all just happy bait ? HSBC takes over a New York park, and affixes End User License Agreements at the park’s entrances.

Originally Posted at Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog . Over the weekend I saw the following YouTube video, via BoingBoing . It imagines a hospital A&E (the British equivalent of the Emergency Room) if it were run by “new age woo woos”, or homeopathic “doctors”: This reminds me of something else. Several weeks ago, as part of some weekly links , I linked to a Guardian blog entry in which...

Attempted to finish moving out of old PC by copying in Linux remaining data to big (500GB) hard drive, which is formatted NTFS. The driver crashed several times, but a remount fixed that issue. However, the whole PC locked hard twice, each time leaving the volume dirty, because it happened in the middle of a write. The first time, I was able to fix the file system using the recovery console of the...

Happy Birthday, curgoth !