I hate comment spammers. I really do think they all need to be taken off onto some desert island, if not dropped into the ocean. They’re basically taking the best positive invention of the 20th century, and coating it in feces. Okay, it’s a little personal at this point. There was so much comment spam being directed at my site last night that I lost all access to my installation of MT. I knew there was a spam problem, but I didn’t quite know how to fix it, and I was too busy to do any real research into it. …
Month: November 2004
Road Rage Cards
This is absolutely brilliant. I wonder if anyone will ever come out with a Korean edition? They ought to.
Scattered Flurries
No, it’s not yet snowing in Jeonju. It’s just that we had a camp meeting last night and Myoung and I are preparing the documents for the camp. That means a lot of paperwork and preparations. I’m trying to make the worksheets for the kids look a little more interesting, as well as easier-to-read, so it’s a bit of work. But I have it mostly finished now, though having printed them and seen how they look, they need a little more work. Layout onscreen always differs from layout on a printed product. But the hardest thing, I’m discovering, is explaining …
Pollery
Shawn recently informed me in no uncertain terms that it was bloody time I put up a new poll. I suggested, very seriously, that he should write one if he wanted a new poll up. So he did! It’s now up, in the right sidebar. Check it out, vote, but please only vote once. I promise I won’t edit out results I don’t like. But nor do I take responsibility for its content. I wouldn’t have put some of those answers in there, but I’m publishing it because I said I would. However, any Palestinian suicide bombers in Korea might …
Books I read this weekend
I read a couple of interesting books last weekend. The first is a hardcover novel by one of my favorite SF writers of all time, Bruce Sterling. The novel, which is titled The Zenith Angle, is even closer to the mainstream than Sterling’s previous novel, Zeitgeist, which was more of a postmodernist parable about technology and the world. (Or perhaps, though some would recoil, a kind of postmodernist magical-realist representation of the 20th Century.) This novel is more of a geek’s Tom Clancy, or at the very least a geek’s look at the world of spooks, technoespionage, and what internet …