Among the features I haven’t yet restored to this website is the SETI@Home status indicator. On a whim I decided to check up on my progress…

Results Received: 5247
Total CPU Time: 6.910 years
SETI@home user for: 4.869 years

Your rank: (based on current workunits received)
Your rank out of 4952071 total users is: 43476th place.
The number of users who have this rank: 7
You have completed more work units than 99.122% of our users.

Whoah. I’m in the 99th percentile, baby.

So, who else out there is doing SETI@Home still, and how many results have you cranked out? While we’re at it… who’s interested in joining a new group? (The Torps have sort of had their day… most of us still in it are just there on account of inertia. And it’s not like Zaph is putting out another version of Cthugha any time soon. Le sigh.)

(Even if I am #2 out of almost 40 Torps members in total results processed, and am within a couple hundred of taking the lead. Ahem.)

Yep. Just another indicator of my sheer unsufferable geekiness. Y’all can deal, I’m sure.

You may have noticed this website taking rather long to load, lately. I finally got to the bottom of it: Turns out the PHP version of the Blogroll display code was adding eight full seconds to the processing time for the journal script.

Well, to hell with that, eh? So I switched to the Javascript version. Voila!

Oh, this solution also fixes the exact same problem with Lil’s blog. Imagine that.

This morning, like most mornings, my routine began with rolling out of bed and kicking on the computer.

No, I’m not kidding, but I am exaggerating a bit. I really just use my big toe (sometimes right, sometimes left, depends on mood) to depress the power button.

And wouldn’t you be depressed if a big toe came out of nowhere to squish you every morning? Thought so.

Hmm. You shouldn’t let me go off on weird tangents like that. Back to the story… I checked my email as usual. What was unusual is the proportion of email inbox contents between my new and old addresses. Main address? The usual dozen or so missives, all but two being spam. Old legacy almost defunct address? More than sixty messages… all of them bounced spam!

The hell?

Until this morning, I didn’t know what a “Joe Job” is. Consider me edu-mah-cated. And annoyed. I mean, who the hell would use that address for anything? Argh. (Mind you, at least they didn’t use my current address!)

Also consider me inspired (at long last!) to get GnuPG installed on my home computer. From now on, missives from my main address will be signed. (Okay, as soon as I can make the same thing happen on my computer at work… which shouldn’t be all that tough.)

My public key is right here, thanks.

Signing my emails won’t prevent another Joe Job scenario, but it will allow me to state with much more authority which emails are really from me and which aren’t. This makes me happier. Dammit.

I’m doing another upgrade here, so if things are sorta tweaked out or broken or just plain weird… it’s me. It’s all me. Feel free to tell me what’s not working for you, though. Maybe I’ll miss something if nobody tells me!

My battle monster beat Kyla’s battle monster, nyah nyah!

GreyDuck is a Giant Ant that is Cold-Blooded and Susceptible to Electrical Damage, and has a Metal Jaw, Black-and-White Stripes and a Computer for a Brain. Strength: 6 Agility: 5 Intelligence: 9 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat GreyDuck, enter your name and choose an attack: fights GreyDuck using Strength Agility Intelligence

Bring it on.

Okay, okay, I’ve made one too.

Are you happy now? Thpppt.

(I’m such a follower. But see, I’m mighty selective about who I follow… and it doesn’t hurt that those I’m following are enjoyable to look at from behind. *smirk*)

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