Winging It

It’s been another week and here I am posting.

Don’t ask me why or how I’ve gotten into this “once a week” habit. I actually have things to say occasionally but….

Like tonight, I’m currently trying not to pass out due to some really noxious something-or-other. It smells like paint or varnish or something, and it’s strong. I might have to go throttle whoever thought this was a brilliant idea. It’s awful.

In other tidbits, you may notice a new addition to the right side of the page titled “nwn”, which stands for Neverwinter Nights. That’s mostly there for quick reference for people other than myself who might be playing.

Yup, ’cause I know you care!

Winging It ?Ǭª Some Weather for You

Well, ok, now I know that IE 5 (for Windows at least) doesn’t like my handling of showing and hiding the weather thing. Maybe I’ll take a look at it. Maybe. If I’m bored.

[Update]
Ok, well, now it works in IE 5 but I don’t know if it will work in Safari. If it doesn’t work in Safari then screw IE 5.

Must be in some sort of strange mood lately, given that it’s been more-or-less a week between new content. Course, it was exactly a week between up until now.

Been playing a bunch of Neverwinter Nights. Good game, good engine for making and playing user-created modules and lots of fun to do some multiplayer with people you know. So, in the end, a good game investment.

Now I just have to figure out how to get a PC on the cheap so I can use the Aurora toolset to make stuff of my own for the game. Suggestions? E-mail me.

Damn it, this is pissing me off.

Ok, I’ve got broadband so automatically I’m a target of script kiddies and the various worms and viruses (thank you Microsoft) that exist.

But what kind of moron writes a script or tool that repeatedly tries the same damn tactic over and over and over against one machine, even when that attack is failing? I mean, seriously, are the script developers that brain dead? If you’re going to write a tool, at least try to make it smart.

I accept that I’m going to get hit by lots of crap floating around out there. I expect that most of it will not work (given that I don’t run Windows. But I’d really appreciate it if the script and application makers would get a god damn clue about writing software that is smart enough to give a tactic up when it fails utterly.

I used this analogy with my coworker: It’s like trying to hammer a nail with a banana, and when the first banana fails you go and get another banana. News flash: It isn’t going to work! Give up. At least stop trying that particular attack.

CNN.com - Reagan’s body lies in state - Jun 9, 2004

So I’m thinking I might head on in tomorrow after work and take a peak at what’s going on. Dunno if I’d actually wait in a long freak’n line to see a dead man who I was barely cognizant enough to know was President, but if nothing else it’d be a “Hey, I was there” for later on.

Guess it will be one of those weighing the pros and cons as I drive home.

Was kind of strange, actually. I came back from dinner on Saturday with K and we started flipping around. No idea that he’d died ’til then. The strange bit wasn’t that we didn’t know, nor that he’d died. Actually, I can’t really define why it was strange. Well. Whatever, it was.

So I figure I’m going to get a lot of spam from Weather.com, but thought it might be fun. If you put your mouse over the “see weather” text over there to the right, you should see the current weather conditions.

There are a couple cases where, if you have older and/or broken browsers, you may not see the text that says “see weather” and even if you do, it might not behave the way it’s expected.

I’m not out to do lots of browser sniffing and screwing around to get it to look right everywhere, but if it doesn’t look right then let me know and tell me what OS you are using and what browser (and browser version, like Internet Explorer 6 or Safari or whatever). Maybe I’ll tweak something.

When updating a piece of software, just because something appears to be working doesn’t mean that it is.

A while back I upgraded this WordPress installation to one of the 1.2 betas. Well, I didn’t check the re-write rules (they make the URLs look like http://cjbehm.dyndns.org/wingingit/archives/2004/06/09/told-you/ instead of something less friendly) and there had been a change that wasn’t in the old rules.

So that’s why the various RSS feeds and such were not working. I expect to see less 404 errors from the search bots in my logs now.

Yes, I know you care. :-p

I told you I was tired

Not a whole lot going on right now. Just feeling a bit run-down, which is pretty much the cause of my silence.

I’m tired.