Net Offenders

I guess my main problem with Net Authority‘s Offender Database is that they don’t provide me with links to offending sites. I’d really like to check these sites out for myself. Hey, wait a minute. Maybe this whole NA thing is just a clever ruse designed to harvest a list of all the really interesting sites…

Hey kids: know of a deviant, blasphemous site on the net? Send them a warning from the Net Authority!

Zim

BOW TO ME, MEATBAG!!

Invader Zim rocks my world. If you haven’t seen this show already, go watch it now.

Lawnmower

If I had a lawn to mow, I would do this to my lawnmower.

Anybody know where I can find a riding vacuum-cleaner?

Red Dwarf

Ahh, the lyrics to the Red Dwarf theme song:

It’s cold outside,
there’s no kind of atmosphere
I’m all alone, more or less
Let me fly far away from here
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun

I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose
Drinking fresh mango juice
Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun
Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun

Unx goes to Mars

Yessir, the name “Unxmaal” will be engraved onto a plate that’ll be shipped to Mars in 2003.

CD-Eating Fungus

This is just great. I spend months backing up all my albums to MP3 format, then backing up the MP3s to CDRoms. Today I find out that scientists have discovered a fungus that eats through compact discs.

I guess now I’ll have to engrave my files onto stone monoliths. This gives a new twist on the purpose for Stonehenge: it’s a Druidic warez site!

Cisco Flash Cards

Has anyone ever successfully gotten a Flash PC Card (like from a Cisco router) to work in a laptop PCMCIA slot?

I know this has to work somehow. It seems to me that this would be a great intermediary step between floppies and CDRoms, as the Flash Cards hold up to 128MB and supposedly act like removable drives.

Work Haikus

My pal Mark Goosby sent me several IT industry haikus that (I assume) he composed:

Not my issue here
Says the server guy to me
Restart process – fix

trading floor problem
the network is always broken
why not sunadmin?

a telco problem
local carrier at fault
knee-jerk troubleshoot

circuit is broken
check coding and framing now
CSU options

user blames networking
firewall is misconfigured
easy easy fix

break out the sniffer
client server not talking
admin ignores test