April 2011
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SSL is bullshit. (And you can too!) →
With XHTML now (thankfully) looking to be mostly dead in the water with the advent of HTML5, I’ve decided to replace it with SSLi on my long list of things that make me want to stab myself…
Apr 29th
I wasn’t aware it came in an 8-bit sprite version. →
(Screenshot from the Steam Fable III page, inviting players to experience the game in “stunning 3D”.) Okay, I admit I figured it out eventually… but it did take me a while. Played this at a…
Apr 27th
Ho snap! Is it that time of the decade again? →
void-star.net v2: *sfaj It is! It’s that time when I flex my flaccid webdesigner muscles and spit out a new layout for void-star.net. And lo, here it is! v2 of the site is mostly…
Apr 26th
Music Monday 7.1 →
You know what I haven’t done in a million years? Music Monday, that’s what! Music Monday Season 7, let’s go! #1. Florence and the Machine, “Dog Days are Over” (watch) And I never wanted…
Apr 25th
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Apr 20th
Return to Kirkwall. →
So. About that post. Firstly, getting picked up by Border House was certainly an exhilarating opportunity, but I don’t think it’s one I’d be racing out to do again; all this…
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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ListenRose’s theme from the Strife! album.
Apr 18th
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“At some point, we need to just acknowledge that, at best, the church exists to...”
– Friendly Atheist » There’s a Controversy Over *What*?
Apr 18th
Back online, plus some braindumping. →
Why is it that you never miss something until you can’t have it any more? Anyway, void-star.net is officially back online; hopefully for realz this time. I think this officially marks the first…
Apr 18th
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Apr 16th
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“I’m the president of the United States. You think I’ve got to go...”
– Obama Shocks Audience by Revealing President of the United States Owns Computer
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First of all, yes I know void-star.net is down. Yes, it’s been down for days. No, there’s nothing I can do about it. The cause? Yup. One of my hostees had a file that ended up doing over 25 gigabytes of traffic in one day. FFS. I’ve talked to the hosting company but there’s nothing really they can do for me, apparently; I just have to suck it up and wait out the month...
Apr 14th
Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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“Yes there are more important things to debate like: - Whether it is a good...”
– I’m straight, married and have kids and I don’t feel threatened by Gay marriage | James Purser
Apr 14th
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So yesterday I started reading "Homestuck".
I spent a good twenty minutes trying to figure out how it knew the date was 13 April. Was it JavaScript? Was it Flash? Was it an image that was being dynamically generated server-side? Was the TVTropes page that also referenced the date also being automatically updated? Was— I know, right? /facepalm
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The Kirkwaller’s Guide to Social Justice. →
(Spoilers ahoy!) One day, I will stop writing posts lauding Dragon Age 2. Today is not that day. So I’m on my second playthrough of the game, about two-thirds the way through Act I. The main…
Apr 8th