Month: February 2004
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At the risk of sounding unsympathetic, I was happy to read that DisneyWorld is re-tooling their Special Assistance Pass system. The last time we were there I was disgusted by the rampant abuse we witnessed. Families would drag Grandma along in a wheelchair just so their six kids could jump the queue at Space Mountain.
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I checked my server statistics today and my eyes nearly fell out. Fully one-third of the files I’ve served this month are the Valentine. People are still abusing it. (A pox on all the stupid teenagers who hang out in web forums!) My .htaccess file now contains about 25 different domains which are forbidden from…
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The Star Wars trilogy is finally coming to DVD… and I’m a little disappointed with the announcement. It looks as if they’re coming as a four-disc set with only the “Special Edition” version of the films. There’s a documentary and some missing footage, but it doesn’t sound like there are any commentaries or anything. The…
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“Quotes From Either President of the United States George W. Bush or Senator/Chancellor/Emperor Palpatine From The Star Wars Movies”. I got them all right, but then again, I’m a big Star Wars nerd.
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I often tease the Snook about being a packrat. He saves everything on the off-chance he might need it someday. Me, I’m the opposite. I have a psychological need to purge. I often err on the side of getting rid of things, even things that I probably should keep. That’s why these pictures scared the…
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Woohoo! Craigslist will soon be launching in Sydney and Melbourne. Sweet.
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It’s thirty-six degrees here today. Yeah, that’s thirty-six degrees Celsius. And it’s only going to get hotter this week…
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(Belated) Friday Five: 1. What’s the most daring thing you’ve ever done?Hmm. Daring can mean a lot of things. If you mean actual “risk of death”, then it would have to be going skydiving. I went with a bunch of girls from my dorm (“The Parachutin’ Weasels!”) during Senior Week ’99. If you mean “courage…
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I don’t understand. How can they call something a “free trade agreement” when it still includes tariffs and quotas on Australian goods? I suspect the US is screwing us. Snookums’s Conspiracy Theory: Note that the raids on Kazaa happened, like, three days before the agreement got signed. He thinks that it was a condition imposed…
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Unintentionally Funny URL O’ The Day: snog.org.au. It’s not what you expect.