Ataxia is the thing with feathers.

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I removed the requirement to register/log in or use OpenID to post comments. I’ve decided to trust Akismet to filter allllllll the spam I get. Which is pretty much none.

A web-based playable version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy game by Infocom, located beyond this hyperlink. I spent countless hours in the Beaver Dam Community Library on an Amiga 1000 playing that game. I just spent about 2 hours playing it right now.
As an aside, the City of Beaver Dam’s web [...]

Steal This iPhone followup

The Eagle-Tribune published a follow-up story on the iPhone thefts, which is mostly a “how they did it” article. Read it here.
It also features a photo of my old (and clearly now ex-)manager dressed up in Arraignment Orange.
Yikes.

Steal This iPhone

One of my managers when I worked at the Apple Store Rockingham Park was arrested yesterday for stealing 332 iPhones from the store with his accomplice and Rock co-worker. (The former manager in question is the younger of the two mentioned in the article.)
I feel that this makes a good excuse to break out [...]

Where for art thou, FiOS?

Not in Dot, that’s for sure. But soon, FiOS will be available in some place in Massachusetts called “Monroe” which has a population of 93. Ninety fucking three.
I bet a lot of them sign up! Whoooooo doggie!
Other WMass metropolises where Verizon will be deploying include New Ashford (pop. 247), Rowe (351), Florida (676), [...]

New Server

Over the weekend, I moved Ataxia and some other sites off of my Linux box sitting on my home Comcast connection to a shiny new VPS host at Linode. Linode is a rocking hosting company. I had a host from them a couple of years ago and am glad to go back.
The major [...]

Mac Office 2008

… comes with Microsoft’s new fonts that shipped with Vista and Windows Office 2007.  I noticed when installing that there’s an option for Office Fonts, which includes Consolas, Calibri, and the others.