Yeah, tabbed browsing, evangelism, blah blah et cetera. I really like Firefox a lot and since I open up pretty much every link I hit in a new tab, does anybody know if there’s a way to reverse the default behavior? That is, I’d like to make links automatically open in new tabs except when I hit CTRL. My readership is and always has been largely nerds, so one of you has to have some idea what I mean. Shoot me.
Month: May 2004
Now it is time for him to make a song
I really liked reading about Jake Berendes’s neo-discovery of headphones and what it’s like to have a soundtrack all the time. I wear headphones pretty constantly when I’m outside my apartment, and his description of that experience is one with which I identify well.
Colin Goggin! I have seen your egosurf referral and I know you saw this site! Now write me or I’ll make a veiled threat I can’t back up!
Have I mentioned yet that I’m done with school? I’m done with school, as of the day after my birthday. I ended up with two Bs and a C, balancing the two Bs and an A from last semester, and finish my first year of postgraduate education with a pristinely average 3.00. I did some complete crap work, in places, this spring; I got thoroughly and undeservingly rogered in others. It all balances out, in 3.00 Land.
One more year of this and I’m done with school forever. Whoof. I am ready for that.
Maria and I were discussing the increasingly esoteric and convoluted nature of spam, just now, including the fact that much of bulk email no longer serves a discernible purpose. I frequently receive spam from nonsense names, advertising nothing, free of hyperlinks or parsible sentences.
I pointed out that one reason it’s gotten so complicated is the constant, high-speed arms race between spammer and anti-spam software vendor; as new regular expressions are devised and new efforts made to beat them, whole fields of technique can be created and discarded in a week. And then Maria said something that chilled me to my very bones.
“What if,” she said, “the vendors are putting spam out there just to keep selling their software?”
I’m terrified, now, that she might be right.
Anyway, read Spam As Folk Art.
Stop Putting Shit in the Coffee
It’s a grand and venerable tradition, the exclamation of “That Would Be a Great Name for a Band.” It dates back nearly to middle school, when I was getting really into Dave Barry, learning–along with the rest of my generation–to listen for the perfect combination of nonsense with which to someday label our cathartic college noise.
But, as I’ve got four very good band names and don’t anticipate the need for any more, I have to concede that Stephen’s friend Nivolas has an excellent point. Maybe, just maybe, it’s time to move on… to ridiculous names for horses.
Dear webmaster@xorph.com
“I am contacting you about cross linking. I am interested in your site because it looks like it’s relevant to a site for which I am seeking links.
The site offers great information regarding cosmetic treatments and aesthetic procedures. This company specializes in providing acne treatment, laser hair removal, microdermabrasion, removal of stretch marks and other services.”
Well shit! That’s completely relevant to a near-dead webcomic and a journal where I make fun of stupid emails!
Town Names Redux
Did you know there’s a town called Dacula in Georgia? That’s perfect!
I’m feeling picky
“And it’s a hot one
Like seven inches from the midday sun”
Okay, if you’re seven inches from the sun, it doesn’t matter what time of day it is. The sun does not actually go out at night.