It's not that I dislike children. I like them in small groups, when they're well-behaved. Pretty much all the problems I have with children are ultimately the parents' faults.

But on halloween, it's this big horde of grubby little greedy monsters whose existence seems to center around annoying people who don't want anything to do with them at the moment.

Then again, it may not.

This is the message which I am about to send on Apple's "provide iTunes feedback" form. I'm not sure if it's angry enough though.

PLEASE NOTE

Jesus christ!

Five pounds? Six pounds? Seven pounds?

While switching between apps, you can press Q or H to quit or hide the app, respectively, rather than have to actually switch to it. (Unfortunately, Exposé doesnt seem to have anything like that yet.)

Also, there's a very brief delay between pressing cmd-tab and the switcher actually popping up; it's not long enough that you notice a delay if you want the switcher, but it's not so short that the switcher pops up if you're just jumping between the top two apps. It totally feels like DWIM. (That's "Do What I Mean" for the acronymically-challenged.)

The largest file on it was a WHOLE 397K!

Also got a copy of OSX.3, which is installing right now. But it's the upgrade version so I had to install X.2 first which was annoying. So I guess I'm not going to be selling my X.2 disks anytime soon.

After this asks me for the next disk I'm going over to a friend's party, though, because I'm hungry and don't feel like making dinner myself. Heh.

7:26 I have named the system Inkling, for now. Also, Expos´ kicks ass even when it's not hardware-accelerated. Also, this keyboard which came with the G4 fucking sucks. Also, 10.3's Software Update is much much sexier than 10.2's. (It's kind of funny that there were already updates available when I first installed a system on its first day of release! It was for stuff like iSync which wasn't finalized before gold master though.) Also, setting up my account anew will be a pain, but at least I went ahead and used the 60-day free .Mac trial to sync my contact information and so on, so not everything will be painful. Also, the new finder FUCKING RULES.

It's not difficult (especially if you already have phpBB set up and working), but it's time-consuming.

2008/03/31 Note that I'm not actively developing this anymore. Notably I have no plans of upgrading it to work with phpBB 3.

2005/02/22 Added a 'url' column to the table; now recent discussion can work a bit better for people who use fancy-pants archive URLs (at least for new installations; if anyone needs help populating their table for existing installations just let me know).

2004/07/02 Added some more anti-spam measures.

2004/11/20 Some more wording changes to hopefully clear up a few parts of the installation.

But what's the point?

Other neat thing is that Bryan finally posted his cover of Fool in the Middle (which is pretty good, though he changed it into basically a different song with the same lyrics — not like I'm one to talk in that regard, of course), and also said that he liked my cover of Blue Signal a lot (and that he was originally going to do the Babelfish thing on it too but decided not to).

11:43 Argh, timezones are a bitch. At least this problem was caught now when there was only one comment to remove. :D

The scanner Just Worked, and it was faster and higher-quality than it ever was in Linux.

The printer Just Worked, and it was faster and higher-quality than it ever was in Linux.

Jesus fuck, why didn't I get a Mac ages ago?

RIP trikuare.trikuare.cx :(

6:16 PM Hm, actually, I guess it's not dead, it's merely pining for the fjords or something (its heatsink fan is dying but if I let it cool down then it'll boot up again). Still, I should use this as an opportunity to consolidate things anyway.

8:53 PM After talking it over with Geof, I've decided that yes, I'll get a G4/450 for a studio system, which is more than enough power for its intended purpose (and any heavy-duty stuff will just happen on whatever laptop I end up getting when I can afford a proper new system.

So let's all help the City of Lake Charles out, because they obviously really need their site to be indexed by Google so that they can get more tourist money.

(I bet it's his mom paying for it though.)

(4:30 PM Yes, she is. Go figure. Maybe I should have mentioned the $40 I gave Jesse for the car cover he never bought.)

NOTE!!!!! This entry is obsolete. Check out the complete solution instead, if you want complete phpBB and MT integration.

So, if anyone else wants this stopgap measure (which is more than enough to stop the current bot and many of the changes which the spammers could make to try to overcome it) while they search for better solutions themselves, read on!

Time to invest some serious time into phpBB integration...

6:16 PM I've reenabled comments with a few subtle changes as a stopgap measure which shouldn't affect real readers. Things may be broken as I test a few things.

Also, J and I are working on reconciliation, so I've unpublished the respective weblog entry just to keep things simpler for everyone involved.

(And remember, you can't spell "reconciliation" without cilia.)

1. The interview went very well and they will be making me an offer in two weeks after they do the full research into what I'm worth (they have a fixed payscale based on experience and skills)
2. Animal control found Shooby this morning (after three weeks)

The spread of Aids among adolescents may significantly slow the growth of the world's population, a United Nations report warned yesterday.

They make that sound like such a bad thing!

Which makes me wonder: are crates shipped in successively larger crates? I just have this mental image of an assembly line with a Russian doll-esque progression.

10/8, 4:50 PM He replied to me. His response: "Thanks for the ideas!" Huh.

For the most recent Coverfight, I was assigned to cover Blind Mime, and so I elected to take a totally different take on the song.