How many passwords do you really know?

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I’m probably more of an exception than most people, but not that exceptional, insofar as I have a lot of passwords. Dozens and dozens of them. Possibly hundreds. There’s 325, in fact, in my Keychain, which only encompasses the electronic side… then there’s things like bankcard PINs, secret words and such junk for all sorts… Read more

Dungeons & Dragons Starcraft

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Yes, believe it or not, there is a D&D Starcraft map. Chris & I tested it out a bit together… it actually represents a huge amount of work by some very very bored person(s). They’ve really pushed the limits of what Starcraft can realistically do; well beyond what’s officially supported with StarEdit. Until now I… Read more

FAT detection

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To introduce with the conclusion, I’ve finally got my little disk driver – for the electronics project – detecting FAT formatted volumes (non-partitioned), and determining whether they’re FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32. This is a surprisingly difficult thing to do, it seems. There’s not any handy flag anywhere that says what format the volume is. If… Read more

Floating Utopia

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Now while some people will immediately decry this as politically incorrect, keep in mind that if we didn’t find this cute in some way, we wouldn’t have the ever-popular stereotype of the bickering old married couple, together for 40 years, and still fighting on. TV soapies as we know them would simply cease to be.… Read more

The stomach nerves’ connected to the pain center

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I’ve made the observation that if I don’t eat during the day, snacking occasionally, I feel very hungry. If I don’t have dinner, however, I don’t feel hungry; I just get a nasty headache at around midnight or so. Must be an emergency override in there somewhere. Yes, I haven’t had dinner. Yes, it’s almost… Read more

Fond memories of being brutally beaten

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I’m reminded, by a different train of thinking, of the time Sarah nearly knocked me out by kicking me in the head. Yes, it’s an unusual courtship ritual, but apparently that’s how some do it. ;) Okay, so the story was we were having a video night or somesuch at my place, and I was… Read more

Corporate Theft

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I guess this takes the phrase “Corporate Theft” to new levels… apparently a group spread across Asia has, for years, been operating a shadow NEC. Beyond just copying authentic NEC products, they actually developed their own original ones. The details aren’t too prevalent in the article, but it seems that this has been done by… Read more