I finally fixed the broken CommentLuv image in the sidebar.  In part because I remembered that World of Matticus uses it and that I could maybe download the file from them and just host it locally.  A few pokes around their directory structure and all fixed.  This wouldn’t usually be worth an update by itself [...]

Just finished watching Code 46 and I quite liked it. I <3 Samantha Morton in this movie, so much. A sex scene with Tim Robbins in it is weird, full stop. I didn’t like the ending but I thought it was appropriate.  If you’re familiar with the theatrical ending to Blade Runner, you should get an extra [...]

I just re-read Asimov’s “The Last Question” after having lunch with my folks. It’s probably my favorite story from one of my four night-stand mainstays (Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Treasury, that also includes “Flowers for Algernon” which I cannot assign enough importance to). When I get back to my computer and hop over to my [...]

My life expectancy (based on gender, nationallity, and current age) is 76.42 years…  that gives me until until Monday, June 18, 2063, which is 74 days after the Vulcans make first contact. While it does a lot of neat things with one piece of information: a name, a date, some math, it doesn’t seem to [...]

Upgrading to the latest WordPress has introduced the ‘Â’ character into a number of posts. As I have no idea why this happened and my phpMyAdmin-fu is weak, this fix will have to wait for a while. EDIT: Just fixed it today after a rather simple find-and-replace on the wp_posts table.  (Export -> Do Notepad++ [...]