No Battlestar For You!
Vivendi Denies Battlestar Galactica MMO, Sort Of
Note that these kind of denials almost always mean “well yeah, but we’re not announcing it until our big coming out party in a month.”
Scott Jennings
The Internet Is, Actually, For Porn (And Drugs, And Ponzi Schemes)
Well, my blog certainly is running slowly this morning! Hm, let’s log into the shell and see what’s up.
Note for those who don’t speak Unix: those numbers are load averages. And should be less than 1.
Hmm. Why is the server so overloaded? Maybe my email
Nope, Can’t Have Nice Things
Apparently the comment preview thingamabob was freezing the page for some folks so it’s toast.
Edit: hmm… actually with some IE7 testing, it seems the problem is that IE7 doesn’t like gzip-compressed pages. Or at least the way WordPress sends them. Disabling that fixed it. Let me know
See, This Is Why I Live In Texas
We choose to place a giant banana in geostationary orbit in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
Prediction: 97% Of The Sixes Will Be Played By Males
Damion has a link to the apparently announced Battlestar Galactica Online – one of the few product announcements I can handily pass off to a previous blog entry!
“Dude, this game sucked since the New Caprica expansion. The devs have clearly never flown Raptors.”
On the other hand, this will be
Bad Craziness Incoming
Upgrading blog software today, so hang tight in case of weirdness.
(And yes, the first thing I’m doing is downloading a full data backup…)
Edit: All done. New features: archive list added back to sidebar (not really new, just forgot to earlier), gratuitous links to social bookmark sites added
Two Thousand Seven
Some predictions (note that I’m forbidden to indulge in insider trading by the SEC, so nothing NC-specific with one exception):
* World of Warcraft will continue to be an unholy juggernaut of a cultural phenomenon. Burning Crusade will launch, people will burn through it in a couple of months and