Rakuraku Dinokun!

A long long LONG time ago… like half the rest of the world, I was crazy about virtual pets. My favorite? Rakuraku Dinokun (or Friendly Little Dino). My old blog from around 1996-2000, Penultimatum, was disappeared (and the domain name stolen, STOLEN, by someone else!), but the Internet Archive had bits and pieces… including some … Read more

GMail

We have severe problems with e-mail at work. We use Outlook 2000. Named not for the year it came out, but for how much mail you can have before Outlook sticks a revolver in its mouth and pulls the trigger. Pass 2000 megabytes of mail, and it's gone. Corrupted. Without a hope of retrieval, unless … Read more

Star Trek Enterprise: Revisited

Well sure, I’m going to watch the whole season. Why not? And I have to admit, after the Nazi disaster, the season improves. They have an episode arc; episodes do effect the episodes after them. Of course, nobody important ever dies. They’re still Star Trek, you know. Only unimportant characters die. The whole bit about … Read more

Star Trek Enterprise

My faithful linux computer Baphomet, she of aborted OS upgrade, has decided I should watch Star Trek Enterprise, like Firefly, Lost, Battlestar Galactica and 24, I show I missed while it was running. It looked really stupid from what I saw, and I had no desire to see any of it. Found a torrent out … Read more

WordPress

Lack of updates; must be something exciting happening in my life? Not really! Just very busy; my boss is in Bali for two months and I am very busy at work… where I used to find time to blog a little each day. I have this blog completely imported into a new, shinier, WordPress body … Read more