General

Woohoo! After about 16 hours of travel, Robert and I made it safely to Honolulu. Currently, we’re hiding inside, playing video games under intense air conditioning. Pictures are forthcoming.

Happy Halloween!

I’m leaving tomorrow morning for a vacation in Hawaii. For my enjoyment, this 11-hour long plane flight will include the following features: it occurs on All-Saint’s Day, there are reports of increased of terrorists activity, and tonight we’re having the first blue moon since 1940.

Tired of Win2k grinding its drives when an application crashes? Try disabling Dr Watson:

Using Regedit, change HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Auto from a 1 to a 0.

Oh my.

Driftnet is “a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes”. In English, it listens to all traffic running across your network, finds and decodes all JPEG images that are currently being transmitted, and displays them on a pretty mosaic screen.

This morning, I begin my first journey into Eastern Standard Time.

Be sure to set your clocks <a href=http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html">back an hour.

You’re exposed to countless chemicals every day. Want to find out their deadly side-effects?

Look up the chemical using the ILO’s Chemical Safety Datasheets page.

Using Mozilla as your browser, and sad that Microsoft no longer allows you to access MSN? Fret no more: install the UserAgent Toolbar, developed by David Illsley.

Technical specifications for the Atari.

Yay! Get your own tiny web browser here! The Off By One browser is only 600kb to download. Compare that to IE’s 60mb or more? Of course, OB1 doesn’t support a whole lot of things, and isn’t very functional, but it is cute.

Welcome to the Great Abbreviation Hunt.

FYI, NPA and NSX are telco codes for an area code and prefix of a telephone number.