Archive for October, 2007

Comment Spam

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

The photoblog is being hit with a massive storm of comment spam. Most is being filtered by Akismet, but quite a few messages have gotten into the moderation queue this weekend. What’s odd about this is that I have comments “turned off” for old articles (and everything in the photoblog is old. Even weirder is [...]

MythTV vs. TiVo

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

I’m hooked on TiVo. If you’ve never used one, I highly recommend it. Unfortunately, the company’s insistence on charging monthly for TV schedule information, means that I turned to other sources when I got an HDTV and wanted TiVo-like features. Specifically I turned to MythTV (or MythTVHD if you prefer). Being a bit of a [...]

Existential Freak-Out

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I feel like I have a deep case of depression that’s having a knock-down, drag’em out with a bunch of caffeine–somewhere deep down in my soul. I’m thinking that this is some sort of reaction to whatever happy-juice they pump into the water in the Magic Kingdom… This sucks.

Crowd Adverse

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Sometimes I manage to seem like a completely normal person (stop laughing). But occasionally, I go into full freak-out mode. Increasingly, large groups of people (or even small but dense groups) cause me enormous amounts of stress. The phenomenon seems to have been getting worse since high school, and I’m probably starting to avoid certain [...]