The Lost Realm

Like many people, I have received a number of peculiar pieces of spam (more peculiar than usual, that is) over the last year requesting help to travel back in time. I originally thought these were funny, but it seems that the person behind the time traveller spams seriously believes what he says.

In light of this, please discourage those who have been playing games with this individual to stop. That isn't the sort of help he really needs.

I am now the proud owner of an ADSL connection and an overly-functional ADSL modem/router/switch/wireless access point. This means that my home connection to the vast wonder that is the Interwebberynet is now approaching useable. That, of course, means lots more updates here, filled with useful content.

In the ongoing SCO vs Linux (AKA: you stole our code, but we're not going to tell you which bits) saga, it appears that SCO are even stupider than we first thought. Not only is the code example that they have given perfectly legal to use, but they have further proven themselves incompetent through their “obfuscation” of their code-comments.

As Linus Torvalds has said, “I allege that SCO is full of it”. Can we all just go back to writing our code now?

Behold the power of Google's new built-in calculator:

• 2+2
• 2048 in binary
• speed of light in furlongs per fortnight
• G*mass of earth/radius of earth^2
• the answer to life, the universe, and everything

And remember, people: someone got paid to hack this together.

Okay, before anyone screams: yes, those are Google Adsense ads. They're mostly an experiment at this point, and may or may not be a permanent fixture. At this point, they'll appear at the top of the screen 50% of the time, and in the sidebar for the other 50%. We'll see which one works best and is least annoying. I'll also be putting an option in to make them vanish soon.