I'm off to Ozer for us tea. I'll have several large lumps of meat, please.
Opinions seem as mixed as the meze. I'll tell you what I think in the morning.
Protect yourself from alien abduction - make yourself a thought screen helmet. And make one for your children too - children are "abducted by aliens for the alien purpose of creating a new race of alien/human hybrids".
May also protect you against MK-ULTRA.
Now, we all know that these aliens are being led by The King, so for extra security, install The Elvis Detector.
There is a thread over on c.l.py on this subject.
It's generating orders of magnitude more heat than light. Jeremy Dillworth's post, though, is well worth a read. Certainly nothing here is going to convince me to switch over, but there are ideas here that Python could steal.
Python's way of defining static and class methods is nasty, I have to admit. The Python developers are looking at fixing this, but for the moment, Ruby is prettier here.
Ruby's operator overloading syntax also looks very nice.
Laundry Guide to Common Care Symbols
Via GromBlog.
Slammer worm crashed Ohio nuke plant net
They use Windows to run nuclear power stations? That's insane.
A keyboard cleaning meme spread around the office today, for some reason. And I fell for it.
So, just like everyone else, I liberally sprayed my keyboard with Foamclene, and scrubbed away at the case and keyboard.
Unlike everyone else, though, my keyboard hasn't worked since. Sigh. Serves me right, I suppose, for having a bloody Microsoft keyboard.
One of the keys is 'stuck down', not physically, but electronically. I have no idea which key it is. I've taken the bloody thing to pieces, and pulled all the keys off. Following Dan's advice, I've sprayed the thing with WD-40, too, but that just made everything oily. And there was me thinking that WD-40 or duct tape will fix anything. (It made us all pretty high, though.)
One other substance was tried - blood. I managed to gash my finger pulling the keys off. But this offering didn't help either.
Don't try this at home, folks.
Want to be Bill or Gareth Gates?
Nearly a quarter of teenagers in the poll want to "work with computers", and a third say it is for the excitement and the money. Bwahahahaha!