I’ve added to, subtracted from, sorted, tweaked and futzed with my massive taglines file, that which feeds the random tagline display you see just below the site logo, up there at the top of the page. Like a good ‘netizen, I’m sharing the fruits of my labors with the lot of ya. So, linked below is the straight text file containing every single tagline I have.
Enjoy, won’t you?
From this Slashdot entry’s commentary we get this amusing little gem:
These are some of the things that happened between Debian releases:
a) The Olympic games returned to Greece.
b) The Pope died.
c) A German Pope got elected in a conclave.
d) Apple switched to Intel.
e) Watergate’s Deep Throat identity was revealed.
f) The French rejected the European Constitution
g) Boston won the World Series.
Never let it be said that the Debian maintainers are in anything resembling a hurry… and if you’re in a hurry for the latest-greatest but want that wonderful Debian flavor, may I recommend Ubuntu?
A quick correction to yesterday’s posting: That would be, level 30. Thanks to some help from the supergroup I’m in, mind you.
Pics of the new costume to follow… eventually.
Sometimes, the best way to spend a Friday night is pounding the hell out of the minions of evil. Tonight, for instance, with very capable and generous help, my lead City of Heroes character made it to level 28. This earned him a spiffy new attack power which I look forward to exercising over the weekend.
I think of it as a cheaper form of therapy than the traditional kind…
Friday, 6pm, Backspace… Portland Bloggers.
There’s been no substantial discussion on other meeting times or locations, so we’ll stick with what we’ve got for now. See you there, then, I hope!
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Today, I received a complaint that someone out there has been spamming one of the dotcomments installations on our server. “Oh, joy,” I thought. “Now what do I do?” As it turns out, I didn’t have to do much. The spammers were hitting the script, sure, but they were doing so in such a way that even someone with as poor of coding skills as I could block it fairly easily. I’ve now implemented the fix on all four appropriate comment systems.
Heaven help us, of course, if the spammers get more clever. It is remarkably non-trivial to excise individual comments from the files, and if that becomes a real problem I’m going to have to look at another comment system… thus abandoning all of the thousands of existing comments to date. May that day be a long one in coming, eh?
