This is what happens when, for some reason, your text ad doesn’t quite fit in the iframe. Spotted at Dictionary.com, and usually something you see as a spam topic.
I think it was supposed to say “Supersize your brain.”
All hail the mushroom cloud
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Sep 29, 2004 
I finally have a laptop. This has been needed for so long now. It’s an Acer Travelmate, 2.8GHz Celeron. Needs more RAM, though — the integrated video chip uses 64 MB of system memory, and it only had 256 MB to begin with.
But first, I need a WLAN card for it so I don’t have to drag a network tail around the apartment.
Sep 28, 2004 You can buy AppRocket for $9 right now. Normal price is $18. Grab it while it’s hot.
AppRocket is a clone of LaunchBar for OS X, which in turn is a clone of something ancient for NeXT, if memory serves.
Sep 26, 2004 - Gestalt Principles of Perception
- From the same site: Human-Computer Interface Design
- Link Guidelines — D. Keith Robinson’s article about what links should look like.
Sep 20, 2004 I seem to suffer from a severe case of designer’s block. Can’t think of anything at all that I would like myself.
So I grabbed the MT version of Kubrick and added it here. I’m not really a big fan of using someone else’s layout, even though Michael has released it for anyone to use and modify freely.
At least I don’t have to stare at the boring default MT design anymore.
Sep 16, 2004 My site is in a severe state of disarray and neglect. Lots to do in school (ADO.NET and datagrids, oh my), not really much to do outside of school but time still disappears into a black hole.
That may have something to do with the fact that I started playing a MMORPG. EVE Online is a major timesink. It’s not an obsession (”I can quit anytime I want!”) yet, though. But it still manages to be quite the timesink. More on EVE in a later entry.
I haven’t made any announcement about it yet, but if you’ve visited the site outside of your news aggregator of choice, you have probably noticed the domain switch.
The bomb will not start a chain reaction in the water, converting it all to gas and letting all the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy. Vice Admiral William P. Blandy, Commander of Operation Crossroads
I’ve had “I am not an atomic playboy!” as my IRC name (not nickname) for years and years. I heard the quote as a sample in song by Purple Motion and Skaven, made for the now classic demo Second Reality.
I didn’t really think much about it, but I stumbled upon the quote again the other day. And then it clicked: that would be a perfect domain name! Lo and behold, it was available as well.
I will have an easier time establishing a visual identity for the phrase “atomic playboy” than for “frozen skies.” So effective some days ago, atomicplayboy.net is the new domain around here.
Thanks to some DNS magic, any request to the old domain will be transparently redirected to the new domain. I’d appreciate it if you changed any links here to the new domain, though.