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Deep thoughts 16 years ago
Deep thoughts, by The Wirehead: If programs could scream, would we be so cavalier about kill -9 ing them? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Death to the Eat-My-Vote machines 17 years ago
So the repercussions of the California decertification of the easy-to-tamper-with voting machines have hit. There was one electronic voting machine, reserved for people who were not able to fill out a normal ballot, instead of 4 electronic voting machines and the paper ballots left for snicker…

Don't Be Afraid by the Information Society 17 years ago
I have a lot of old links pointing to this article that hasn't been present for a long long time, so I figure I should wrote something here. I found my old review in the Internet Archive and decided that I should really write it all over again. I'm a better writer now, and I can give more thoughts…

The latest and greatest in referer spamming 17 years ago
So I run a referer analysis package on my logs. Partially this is to make sure that nobody's using my images in their myspace background (this is a popular way to really piss me off on the web) or doing something otherwise antisocial. But also, I like to know who's talking linking to me in a more…

If a tree fell in the forest and didn't have a RSS feed, did it make a sound? 17 years ago
I read a nice list of interesting web comics and decided to check something out. After I sorted through the ones that looked interesting, I realized something. If something doesn't have the RSS feed, it's useless, with a few exceptions. I use Flickr without RSS feeds, but that's because every…

I want an Asus Eee 17 years ago
When I was but a wee little Wirehead, I got myself a 486 laptop for high school to take notes on. Yes, a 486. I was in the high school class of 1997 and it wasn't normal for kids to have a laptop at that point in time. Now, I hear, all the kids have one. The thing is, a 486 has quite enough…

Random Notes 17 years ago
A story that amuses me so much that it is worth telling, even anonymized: A certain individual, call him "Shorty", who happens to be taller than I, has a girlfriend who is about the same height as my wife, who doesn't even make it up to my shoulders. Said girlfriend's father is a "head shrinker…

The latest entry in the laptop saga: Apple makes a good laptop 17 years ago
When I last wrote about my work laptop , I mentioned the failed Thinkpad T41, which was then fixed and placed into service. But I'd still leave it at work half the time because I didn't want to deal with the stupid IBM Presentation Director. It finally got fixed... somewhat... when I moved from…

I love writing on my cellphone 17 years ago
It turns out that my best writing is done in bed before I go to sleep. I tend to be the most emotionally raw and it helps as a sleep cue. I find, much to my friend Deborah's amusement, that the only way it works out is if I use my cellphone's two-thumb keyboard. It's all about cuddling up, see. My…

Update 18 years ago
I haven't been blogging much lately here because almost all of my urge-to-spew-thoughts has been taken up by my urge to post to flickr and vox and wireheadarts.com . One thing I learned from flickr is the value of community and also how much I post when it is easy to do so. The blogging engine…