Me: “I need to get my birth certificate. Which hospital was I born in? I can’t remember that far back.”
My mom: “You were born —appropriately enough— in a hospital named <a href=http://www.capefearvalley.com/">Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Cumberland County, Fayetteville, NC.”
I’m hoping that I won’t be as disappointed in Mozilla 0.9 as I was in all of the prior releases. So far everything seems to be working pretty well. My favorite feature thus far is being able to click the middle mouse button to open a link in a new window. This is a carryover from using Netscape in Linux, and it always irked me that middle-button window-opening didn’t work in the Windows browsers.
More passings, this Wednesday:
KC Nicole, whose little blog is listed in the Adoration Box, died Monday of liver failure. The wake is being held online, at Metafilter. She was 19.
May 25th is Towel Day, in memoriam of Douglas Adams.
“The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever” on Friday, May 11.
I made a typo while renumbering IP addresses in the unxmaal.com dns zone today, so access to your favorite website may be a little spotty for a little while. Sorry, Unx!
Here’s how to impress your date.
Joseph sent me a great link to a working BBS: Lower Lights. Check out its true ASCII-art glory.
Networkgeek.org is back up. Full / Abbreviated story is on networkgeek.org. yaay… new servers rule…
Sometimes it strikes me that Huntsville is a little unlike any other southern city. Today, on our return trip from visiting my family for Mother’s Day, Megan and I saw a car for sale. Its amazingly low miles and reasonable asking price made this ’96 model tantalizingly within reach. The moment demanded action: I dialed the telephone number, recognizable as a powertel prefix, as we drove away.
The woman that answered was pleasant, even eager to describe the car. We agreed to meet later in the afternoon so Megan and I could check it out from behind the wheel. As we closed the conversation, I realized I hadn’t introduced myself…