The interesting thing about Medusa is that she lost the game when forced to reflect on herself. In modern society, Jesters have grown too harsh for us, and we compulsively banish them..

I recently happened upon yet another 'ask a question' site I'll be visiting frequently: Ask Pud. Along with Ask Yahoo and The Straight Dope, it'll be a nice place to visit to keep my brain nicely stirred.

I just got in a CD I ordered a while ago -- Klezskavania, from the Plaid Tongued Devils. It's incredible. The sound is mostly Gypsy, with some Klezmer and Jazz elements. I'm going to need to get some of the rest of their CDs... There's a chance that they may eventually become my favourite musical group -- they've definitely won their way into the top few that I can name off the top of my head.

Here's some kind of useless notes for people who have computers that are both weak in CPU, and yet have a fast network card. And, of course, most network cards don't do bus mastering, so said people's fast network card would (often) end up using a lot of CPU anyway. The notes are, nontheless, useful for doing some cool other things.

Hmm .. how do they get the internal memos for this site?

This is really out there, but I had a friend point me at it.

If you ever find yourself doing jury duty, you really should know about jury nullification. Read here.

According to this, Maoist thought is sufficiently developed that there's roome enough for (at least) one course on it. I wish it were available here -- I know almost nothing about what Mao thought, just knowing bits of what he did.

That "anti"-spam law was passed, and now some companies are taking steps against the spammers. Of course, what'll probably happen is that in time, the ISPs that complain will get filtered out, and the rest of us will continue to suffer -- one of the dumb things about the new law is that it only gives the power to sue to ISPs, and explicitly blocks the laws that would've let end-users sue that some states were implementing. *sigh*

Sadly, or happily, depending on how you look at it, it may be that global warming will be overwhelmed in the face of a larger trend -- more air pollution blocking sunlight and dropping temperatures on the planet. What a world.

I'm probably going to drive to Brecksville this weekend, to say hi to all the family that'll be around. It'll be a way of easing my family into the idea that they can't expect me to participate in Xian traditions. Of course, I think they "just don't get it" -- they think that Judaists should do Xmas too, and don't understand why my sisters' friends who are of that belief system don't.

I've still been playing with CSS, but I've become a bit frustrated -- normal HTML seems to scale nicely, but with CSS, there doesn't seem to be a way to mix sized content with some kind of 'fill the rest', which is what I really want. For example, I have a spiffy new header for my blog (well, the mockup), with my face on the left, and intro/headers to the right of it. It looks nice, but it's hard to get the sizes of the left and right portions set up properly. The image is, of course, fixed-size, and the text is, of course, not. Laid out in pixels, it looks decent, but doesn't expand or contract to fit the browser width. Laid out in percentages of the screen width, it expands and contracts to meet the screen, but when the percentage of the left part goes under the image width, text and image overlap, and it still doesn't look as good as it should at other times. I imagine there's probably a solution to this design problem, as it's no doubt come up before. All this goes to show is that I still have a lot to learn about CSS. At some point, I might establish the CSS-enabled view as an alternate view to the current one.. which reminds me -- I need to remove the old cgi-based interface.

Ahh, just spoke w/ my mom.. I guess I'll visit the weekend after Xmas instead. I'm hoping to finish up my big project for work this weekend then, and maybe take some nice walks.