How to Build and Use a Mouse Cannon In a moment of desperation, I added what I know to what I have and came up with the simplest — and most effective — mousetrap I’ve ever used. Click the images to view full size. The main tube of mine is about 27 inches long, and…
From the Department of Insane Hacks On Halloween, Windows played a dirty Trick on me, so I gave myself a great Treat: I blew Windwoes to hell and installed Debian. Life has been wonderful ever since — but that’s not what this story is about. Because I like playing World of Tanks, I ended up…
I thought I got hacked yesterday. This line of text appeared — with no apparent cause — in a text file that was open but out of sight: Cracked and cul De SAC and all will have some fun and this one th at a picnic After finding no clues in any obvious way, I…
My mother once told me I should have a budget. Many years later, I aquired a parakeet, and named him Budget. Unfortunately, I couldn’t keep him…. What is the Tao of Budget? To take an oversimplified view of the subject, let us say there are two basic types of budgeting: Big-Thingian and Little-Thingian. Tom Chance…
Amazing what one runs across when cleaning out surplus stuff. Also amazing what one never notices until…when one notices it. I rescued this old label some time ago from a box that had been used for storage since whenever. Then it knocked around here and there and was buried, until I dug it up yesterday…
This is not a problem with IrfanView, but it is involved with it. Something strange happened while I was browsing a folder of old images with some new work being added. There is one TGA file among the JPGs, PNGs, and BMPs. I noticed the image in the thumb viewer and made a mental note…
I have Windows Live Writer sitting around doing nothing. So finally I decide to see if it’s good for anything. Turns out maybe it is. Anyhoo, that’s insomnia for ya. Oh – drat – of course the bloody thing wants to check my spelling. Worse than that – the only browser it knows is Idiot…
I need a new list in Twitter: People who don’t tweet. They make me nervous when they follow me. I suspect them of having suspicious motives. Well, some people on Twitter do have very suspicious motives. A few of them are stupid, evil slimeballs. It’s harder to figure out the 0-tweeters, and they make me…
I don’t blog often, but at least when I do it’s my own content. Unfortunately, there are a shitload of “bloggers” whose only aim is to get as much traffic as possible, by any means possible. I assume that they are doing this for the sake of some sleazy advertising on their sorry moshblogs that…
Still out of luck with excluding stuff. My best option for now is to turn off the tweet digest — I don’t really need it anyway. Meanwhile, spam goes on. Most of it wouldn’t fool a month-old puppy, but who wouldn’t like to be flattered all to heck with: Wow, incredible blog layout! How long…