Archives: 2004 May
Nigritude Ultramarine Update
May 28th, 2004, No Comments
While it’s unlikely that my Nigritude Ultramarine FAQ is going to reach the number one spot on Google by July 7, it’s been more than worthwhile participating in the Dark Blue SEO contest so far. I’ve been able to document a lot of the search engine activity and have learned some new things. For example, [...]
Van Helsing
May 26th, 2004, No Comments
Susan and I saw Van Helsing recently. It was bad. It was so unbelievably bad. It’s another one of those movies where a few live actors have been stuck into an otherwise completely computer animated movie. And it’s not very good computer animation at that. The animators seemed to think that bigger was better and [...]
Kenneth Brown and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
May 19th, 2004, No Comments
I’m sure everyone is aware by now that Kenneth Brown, and the other dim-wit lackeys of Microsoft at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution have published a book claiming that Linus didn’t write the original Linux kernel. We’ve come to expect poorly researched, badly reasoned crap from the pen of Ken Brown, but this isn’t even [...]
Nigritude Ultramarine Update
May 14th, 2004, No Comments
Since my last post, the Nigritude Ultramarine FAQ, my entry in the SEO contest has been indexed by Google and is now showing up in the results. Unlike the hundreds of other pages out there, this is one of a handful that are actually intended to be interesting. It’s also one of the few that’s [...]
Nigritude Ultramarine
May 10th, 2004, No Comments
A recent slashdot article brought to my attention the DarkBlue SEO Challenge, a contest with the goal of getting a webpage to the number one position in Google’s results for the search phrase “nigritude ultramarine”. I decided to take a whack at it despite the unfortunate choice of words (most people I’ve mentioned it to [...]
Mod_Virgule Update
May 8th, 2004, No Comments
I found some time to package up and release my latest mod_virgule code. This release brings my fork back up to date with the official code including the recentlog, project, and article permalinks and the recentllog edit patches (which oddly don’t appear on Advogato – is it not running the latest version anymore?). I’ve also [...]
Glowing Lizards and Libertarians
May 5th, 2004, No Comments
I ran across another odd eBay action: One dozen lizards that glow in the dark. Everyone loves glowing lizards. They’re educational and fun! But be careful – no tech support is provided. I wonder if these are anything like the stink lizards from Futurama? Since I stumbled across the site meetup.com a while back and [...]
Andrew Litton Invited us Backstage at the DSO
May 4th, 2004, No Comments
After the DSO concert Saturday evening, Susan and I ventured backstage at the invitation of Andrew Litton. Following instructions printed from an email, we made our way through a nearly pitch black corridor of the Meyerson known as the green room and knocked on the appropriate door. But I should start at the begining. Susan [...]
