So, the Wee Lad got this rather fun, puzzle-oriented game from his uncle (my brother) for his birthday, and we've been having a lot of fun with that. He gets to play it as time allows, but if he has a particularly good day at school, I reward that by …

Power Kickbox Orthodontist! Not photoshopped. This building on 79 (E. Palm Valley) at N. Georgetown Ave in Round Rock. It's behind the restaurant on the NW corner.

Wee lass was completely engrossed in this virtual sandbox that my brother linked to me. She made the picture you can see below or in the gallery at thisissand.com.

Who's the bitwise instruction that's in state machines on all your chips? SHIFT! Can you dig it?

They say that cat SHIFT is one bad input MUXer! (Shut your mouth!) I'm just talkin about SHIFT! (Then we can dig it!)

(Yes. I *could* do the rest. But WHY?)

Slackerwood has the scoop. Of course, I *liked* The Man With the Screaming Brain, although I'll admit that it may have been the antics of Comrade Joxer that saved the movie for me. It was Alien Apocalypse that left me feeling betrayed.

The Coffee House, reloaded. Windows users may want Tinyfugue to connect. Then use Start->Programs->TinyFugue->TF to run it.

Mac Users can get TF 4.0s1 from that site, but when you mount the DMG, install only the TinyFugue.mpkg file, it installs the others for you. Then you …

Recently a few people have asked me how to open DOCX files, which are created in Word 2007 / Office 2007. I have found 4 solutions so far:

1. Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac is perhaps the canonical solution. It won't make new Office 2007 documents, but I …

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In these uncertain times, we all need results we can trust. At CERN and Fermilab, scientists are working around the clock to address these problems, taking very precise measurements which, by their very nature vary nature. The Large …

So, yesterday some of you may have noticed that sessrumnir.rootaction.net was down. Today you might notice that it's back up. I bet you are wondering what happened. Or not. That's ok, I'm going to give you the short version anyway. :)

The system experienced multiple concurrent physical failures. Specifically …

So, after much deliberation, I have installed Leopard. So far, I am quite encouraged. It "feels" a little zippier. It looks a little better (Apple has been slowly re-vamping the look since at least the release of Panther, and it's finally beginning to look consistent again.)

This is the ongoing …