Month: December 2005

Merry Christmas!

Tomorrow is the one day during the year where our office is closed, so I actually get a paid day off (I usually work on Sundays). That being said, I’ll be back at the office on Monday, the 26th, as it’s one of out busiest days of the year with a crapload of check-ins.

Have a happy and safe holiday, everybody, and be sure to post all the goodies you got (or you gave your kids. I’ll post one of those obligitory posts at some point, but always like to hear what everybody else got/gave. And I already know about Jon’s birthday cat, so let’s just not discuss that as it seems to be a touchy subject in the household (just joking Jon/Wife — I love ya both and hope you have a safe holiday).

December 24, 2005

That’s One Way To Go About It

If you’ve got a gripe with a company, buy stock in the company so you can attend stockholder meetings and wreak a little havoc. That’s exactly what Jack Thompson did:

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. Jack Thompson has purchased shares in Take-Two interactive – otherwise known as the publisher behind the Grand Theft Auto series of games. So has JT suddenly become a financial supporter of the company he’s long campaigned against? Not a chance. JT has purchased stock in the company in order that he might attend Take-Two’s shareholder meetings and face up to the company’s CEO, Paul Eibeler.

I guess if you’ve got money to blow, this is one way to make your point. I’d love to be at that stock holder meeting — the guy’s going to get beaten senseless.

December 22, 2005

Happy Festivus!

If you want to be totally completely politically correct this holiday season, you should be celebrating Festivus, and you can now buy A Festivus Pole. And don’t worry — you won’t be alone in your celebration.

December 21, 2005

Search And Replace in MySQL

This is just mostly for my reference so I don’t have to keep digging in the Google cache to get this site:

update tablename set field = replace(field,’search_for_this’,’replace_with_this’);

I’ve probably used this bit of SQL a dozen times in the last week while doing some pruning/cleanup in a work database, I just kept forgetting the exact syntax.

December 21, 2005

A 4.8-Terabyte Home Brew Server

This home brew project, with its 12 400 gig drives, is frickin’ sweet (read the full thread on the story on how this thing started as a 1.2TB server, it blew up, and he’s rebuilding it — I’m linking to page ten in the first link above as it’s where the action starts again). I think the thing that impresses me the most about the build is the super-clean wiring and the nicely done homemade modifications.

December 21, 2005

Fun Flash Game For The Day #2

Pretty much everything at orisinal.com is quick and fun, but this simple little bugs game is a great time killer — which is why I’m not touching it today.

December 19, 2005

Fun Flash Game For The Day

I’ve always been a big fan of puzzle games like Puzzle Fighter which is why I find Gravitude entertaining. And that’s also why I’m not going to start playing it as I’ll be at it for hours, and I actually have to get some work done today.

December 19, 2005

The Passion of Benny Hill

I’m going straight to hell for laughing at this: What if The Passion Of The Christ were dubbed over by the Benny Hill theme song? It might look something like this.

December 18, 2005

Why Would You Ever Do This?

I’ve heard of odd-ball body modification implants — like people getting spikes in their arms or head or something weird. But I can’t say that I’ve ever heard of anything like this: Brass Knuckle Implants not in your knuckles, but in your chest. Link via b3ta.

December 18, 2005

Finally, Politicians Doing Something Right

The Patriot Act extension was rejected.

December 17, 2005