Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft

You all must visit Zombo.com. You must leave you browser here for hours at a time. Go now.

Of course, this is the proper way to best enjoy Zombo.com.

I have a linux box in my office at work. I run a little web server on it. Why? Why not! I’ve got enough juice that the IS guys let me do most of what I want. Well the box was up for like 75 days nice and sweet. I was trying to swap around the LAN cabling and the to check if it was working I launch Netscape. I tell you the box DID NOT like that. I sat for a bit letting it cogitate. After sitting for a few minutes, the X server went down and I was back to a command line. OK, X just crashed, I’ll be fine. As I was typing ‘top’ to see if Netscape was still running, the box keeled over and went to black screen. No, ctl-alt-del did not bring me back to the command line. It was dead. I power cycled and everything was fine.

Here’s another kicking web site for all you net music lovers: friskit.com

Good news for Generation Y/Nintendo, Lucas over at Dioxidized finally got a job. I expect a wife, kids and mortgage in short order. Be careful linking there, no dead people photos currently, but they could appear at any minute.

Quake 3: Team Arena is suh-weet. I love the Overlord and Harvester mods. I’ve been staying up way to late playing it.

In Ultima I’m about to get my 3 year awards. Hard to imagine I’ve been playing a game for 3 years. Geez. It boggles the mind.

I’m on a flight from Cincinnati to LA. As I got on the flight I noticed a number of people sniffling, obviously sick. As I sat down, I thought, “Damn, I’m lucky to have avoided getting sick over the holidays.”

To my right there was a woman who was fidgeting quite a bit. She kept messing with books and her bags. I didn’t think much of it.

After a while I started to feel bad. I got a headache and my throat started to close up. I feared I was getting sick. I drank tons of water and tried to rest. I couldn’t believe that after I left the cold weather I was catching a cold.

The plane landed and I got ready to leave. I heard the fidgety woman start to murmur what sounded like baby talk. Than I heard a distinct ‘Me-ow’. I turned to look and saw that she had cat in her carry-on bag. A cat! I am terribly allergic to cats. This woman had assualted me with her biological weapon, the cat.

What happened to putting pets in the hold? America is on the decline.

I’m been on vacation visiting the inlaws since Christmas. Without my l33t gaming box, I am unable to enjoy nightly doses of online gaming to sate my need for carnage. I end up surfing the web endlessly, link upon link. Once you get on a weblog path, it inevitably leads to more weblogs. I started to notice a trend among some the weblogs. They are all depressed. Entry after entry of “I’m bored” or “My life sucks”. Is life out there really so bad. When I visited some college guys in my fraternity for alumni weekend a few months ago, they seemed to be happy.

Perhaps its all the smoking that Generation Y does. Seems like all the 20 somethings around all love to suck on some good old tobbaco. Perhaps Philip Morris could lace the cigarettes with Prozac. Instant happiness!

Oh yes, Happy New Year. Michele and I went to vist my brother Matt and his wife Jessica in Washington, D.C. We had a great time. Matt and I watched TV and played PSX2 and the wives shopped. For New Year’s Eve, we went out to dinner and a cool blues bar. The wives drank a bit much. Of course, we men had no problem, but the next morning, the girls were a bit hung over. Poor Michele got sicker and sicker. She threw up on in the airport in DC, in the airport in Philadelphia, on the plane, in the airport in Cincinnati, in the car on the way form the airport, and in the house once we arrived. That’s some world class puking if you ask me. I’m damn proud of my wife!

Currently, I am helping my sister-in-law with her Mac. I am downloading IE5. It’s a 6.8 MB d/l. I’m used to a nice DSL connection where a 6.8 MB d/l takes a few minutes. Her computer has a 28.8 modem. It is taking 30+ minutes to get this file.

How does the world handle this? Why haven’t the masses risen up and demanded broadband? I can’t imagine how painful the net is when your connection is at 28.8.

I have nothing against AOL. It works great for many people and that’s good. I don’t use it but many people do happily.

What I do have a problem with is people using an AOL email address for business. I mean come on, how unprofessional can you get? Would you have all your business calls on your home phone?

It costs less than $20 a month to have a company email address. If any business can’t afford $20 a month they won’t be in business long.

Why am I so pissed? Well, I’m dealing with the producer of a new TV show and he has an AOL email address and uses the cutsy HTML stuff in his emails. This guy makes MILLIONS and he’s still using AOL for his business. Perhaps I’m an elitist from the early days of the net, but why would any company want to advertise their ISP instead of their company?

This is perhaps the greatest piece of media you will ever find on the internet.

You must download it now.

It’s like 6.5 MB, so you modem users are hating it.

Today I actually waited outside in a line to buy tickets to a concert.

Yes, I got lucky and had the bracelet that put me third in line to get tickets. Yes, Michele and I will be seeing the following bands: Deftones, Incubus, Moby, No Doubt, Papa Roach, Weezer, Disturbed, Linkin Park, Green Day, and Everclear.

Everclear is Michele’s favorite band, and Green day is mine. Good karma I guess.

Calm down. I’m not that insane. I was asked to get a PSX2 for the office. The only reasonable way to buy one is to get it off an auction. Furthermore, I needed to find an seller that accepts the corporate American Express card. Therefore, the high cost.

I will have to test out this system. Oh yes, test it I will. :)Where’s my copy of Kessen?

Netscape 4.7x is sucking so bad,I’m trying Internet Explorer. It’s OK, except on HUGE flaw. In Netscape, I can right click on an image and one option is “Copy Image Location”. I use this all the time.

The problem is that IE doesn’t have this right click option. The closest I can do is to right clcik on the image, choose properties, and then copy the URl from the properties gump. That is WAY too much work.

Someone wake up Steve Ballmer and make him fix this.

Yah, yah, I know about Netscape 6, but I’ll rant about that later.