Because certain cock-holsters on the Internet seem to think that my Referrer Logs are a great place to place fake referrals to porn sites, I’ve had to research ways to stomp on their itty spammer pee-pees.

Once you’ve found the Referrer-Spammer’s IP address [check your http access logs], it is trivial to add a deny statement to your .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 "Does not exist."

deny from ---.---.---.---

If you only specify a portion of numbers, you will block a whole range.

Woohoo! It’s time for “Fun With Numerology“!

Hmm… my full name plus my birth date yields “<a href=http://www.hwa.org/Tarot/course/maj22.htm">The Fool“.

How apt.

After about a week, I’ve uninstalled iPulse. I don’t see the point in using a CPU load monitor that uses 30% of the CPU load to report that it’s using 30% of the CPU load.

And Ye Gods! What nagware! For a $10 program, iPulse comes with a suite of “buy-me” irritations that rival security measures used by large office suites, including “register me” panels that pop up once an hour, hopping Dock icons, and the worst: a spoken “register me” alert. I’d used the program for less than four days when, in the middle of the night, I heard a loud, booming voice, coming from my G4, demanding that I “REGISTER IPULSE!!”. After checking System Preferences several times to ensure I had “Spoken Alerts” turned off, I eventually decided that the application itself was simply being obnoxious.

Metroid Prime rocks.

After playing for an hour-ish each day, I’ve gotten to the third boss, Thardus. He throws rocks at you, freezes you, and occasionally turns into an invincible ball and tries to squash you. After he painted the room with my greasy entrails the first time, I discovered that he was, indeed, easy to beat. The very simple trick is to jump up onto one of the ledges on the sides of the room, stay fairly still, and shoot the hell out of him. He’ll continue to occasionally turn into a huge ball and squash you, but at most he’ll only take off a hundred points. The ledge keeps you out of the way of his freezing attack. Also, it’s a lot easier to keep a target lock on him while you’re standing still.

In response to Nyx‘s fine post:

I disagree.In the history of humanity, knowledge has always been the most expensive. Education should never be ‘free’. To consider it such devalues the knowledge gained.

I am highly suspicious of anything ‘free’ [[TAANSTAFL][3]]. I am especially cautious of ‘free’ education. It is, more often than not, less education and more indoctrination.

Consider the American education system: how to cheaply and effectively rule a population of millions? It is far less costly to rule a people with words, rather than with force. However, they must first be taught to read.

Just in case you’re interested in travelling to Hell by way of the UK, this nice website provides a handy catalog of entrances to the underworld.

Sam has started his Jedi training, and snapped a few photos of himself posing with his new lightsaber: 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Robert: It just seems like there’s a lot of interesting things happening lately. Like, I read this article about a vaccine that will completely cure a certain form of cancer.

Robert: Doesn’t do me much good, of course, because you have to be a girl to have a cervix.

Me: Well, uh.. actually, I should tell you that I have a cervix.

Me: It’s in the fridge, behind the mayo. Don’t knock it over.

Neat OS X utility: iPulse.

iPulse is a great little graphical system statistics indicator. It shows CPU load, network load, memory usage, disk usage, and has a clock — and all in one easy-to-use interface.

While helping Daniel move, we uncovered a box of lightsabers.