For the very few people who do keep up with my site here there may be some downtime over the next few days. I’m moving everything to a remote host for quite a few very good reasons: With the plan to finally physically move house this year, moving electronically out of the house early ensures [...]

This actually took longer than I had expected: AACS has been cracked. Good analysis here. I lost a bet (for no actual money, but I do owe someone dinner) that said it would be done before Thanksgiving with the release of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player. Tags: dinner, movie

In the online world handles and usernames are a sometimes necessity that provide a certain small amount of obfuscation along with an often smaller string to remember a particular person. Back in the early 90′s when I first started seriously to get into the BBS community I went by “Line Noise“. At the time I [...]

For people I know who are closer to it than I am: 1183 Selby Ave St Paul, MN 55104 No tag for this post.

FYI – If you have never made oatmeal out of a canister before (I’ve been having a packet of the instant varieties most mornings for the past 2 years) learn from my folly: Be sure that you figure out which ingredient is which measurement. Quaker Oats, somewhat differently expected, does not list the oats as [...]

Joss Whedon‘s Firefly universe is set to be resurrected! As an… MMO? Tags: game

Jones soda is switching to cane sugar in 2007! (Found on The Soda Pop Blog, who I don’t always quite agree with but most of the relatively small group of people who are covering a topic I am highly interested in are generally worth reading.) Tags: pop, Soda

My autographed copy (#219!) of Thomas Dolby‘s “The Sole Inhabitant” concert DVD arrived in the mail today from CD Baby and I spent a really great evening getting through the contents despite a couple of little flaws in the package. The main content is the concert from September 28th 2006 at the Berklee Performance Center [...]

Wrong? Hardly. No tag for this post.