Best bug ever

A Web site cannot set a cookie if the Domain attribute is in uppercase characters and has an odd number of characters in Internet Explorer 7. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/ms07-045-cumulative-security-update-for-internet-explorer-5faca757-4bae-de6f-eff3-f5cbd908236f I can’t even begin to imagine how you can create a bug like that.

Panoramarama!

I believe F2 did some research into it and discovered than somewhere around 107% of people create panoramas. I might lay off them a bit in future… they take bloody ages to stitch together. And I really should be doing it in Photoshop or somesuch, so I can get better edges, but experience tells me… Read more

Tax return

My tax return cheque arrived the other day… that’s only, what, 8, 9 months since I filed? Go IRS.

Photos of the last two weeks

The basic photos are up from my last two weeks or so of travels, including Alcatraz, Monterey Bay Aquarium, the view from Twin Peaks, Heavenly, Half Moon Bay, San Francisco Zoo, Carmel and yes, even Stanford University. The panoramas are yet to be stitched, but they’ll magically appear over time as I get around to… Read more

Papa’s got a brand new bag [of strings]

While wandering Haight Street yesterday with my parents I nipped into a music store there and, finally, grabbed some new strings for my guitar. After what seemed like hours fighting with the damn thing, I got them on. More or less. I’m pretty sure my technique is whacked, but it appears to work. More or… Read more

Resident tourist

Last Friday my parents arrived. It seems like only a short while since I’d seen them last, because it was. Which is an unusual feeling to have, living as I am a third of a world away, though I was reminded by my recent trip back that I am only sixteen or so hours away,… Read more