Grah.

Double-day update because my router refused to assign me an IP address last night, after I got back from listening to a talk about how biometric identification is not a panacea for the world's terror ills, nor for much in terms of crime deterrents. Things finally righted themselves, as inexplicably as they had gone wrong, this morning.

Happy birthday to welah, which I might have missed because of that cute network outage. I still have to think of something to get him. I've got good ideas, I just need to remember what I got him before.

Also, for those who celebrate, happy Eid ul-Adha. I only hope that G-d never decides to put me to the same sort of test as Ibrahim.

I was going to rage last night about how I bought the only two books I need (out of four classes this semester, I only need two books). Total cost was >$200 US. Needless to say, I do not like having to take a raping like that just so that I can get my books. For my undergraduate, spending more than $200 meant that I got almost fifteen books out of the deal, not two. Needless to say, I wasn't real happy about that. Then the computer being finicky made for an interesting day that day. It wasn't a bad day, just interesting. And since we rarely have two bad days in a row, today was going to get better. And it did.

What you missed out on yesterday was the second chord of a 600+ year concert, some sage advice about university experience (bladespark returns the favor and explores a site I linked more in-depth than I do and finds another gem), anthropomorphic swashbuckling games, and Remote Roomba Control. Today, though, Katie gave a very good indication on how to get revenge on your instructors. Some marching band members I've known are very fond of the 8 AM show performance. Also, my institution of higher (and lower) learning was Wikipedia's featured article today. For whatever good that does.

Oh, yes, and there's this cute thing - It's illegal to flame now under a pseudonym. (Remember, the greatest component of a flame is LAME.) Another sneaky rider means that we can't annoy people anonymously over the Internet. So that means all political cartoons will have to be taken down, all opinion columns will cease to exist, and a good amount of Wikipedia's content will have to be stricken. Of course, we may also have to take down the websites of any organization that annoys someone else, so The White House Site will have to go, because of a less-than-100% approval rating for the President... you know, the whole Web will have to go if this gets enforced.

If you want good yucks, check out the comment fury underneath the article - perfect examples of the legitimate right to discuss things - there's commentary raised that other sections of the law mean that the amendment is designed only to cover VoIP services, but there's a good chance that it could be extended outward, or that now there's a contradiction of some sort in the telecommunications act. I guess we'll just wait for the first lawsuit and see what happens. There are also rants and raves (with names of some sort attached, real or otherwise) about the political slant of the author, accusing the author of being a "biased political author" in "my tech news", according to the commenter. One wonders just how politically biased the commenter is, neh? (Of course, it's easy to snark someone like that when you're amused by their behavior, rather than having to defend yourself from his spittle.)

In memesheepage, I am extraordinarily humble (a 40/33 body/mind split.) which explains being slightly depressed as a general rule. And tomorrow, more to come. I'll be there, hopefully. One thing not so good about Linux so far, is that making the comic is a little more complicated.