Author: Karel Kerezman

  • Good, bad, I’m the guy with the cape.

    What has become (by far) my main character, a katana-wielding hero by the (somewhat odd) name of Woods Cutter, has reached Security Level 20. You know what that means, don’t you? It’s new costume and cape time!


    Look at him, all mean and cool, standing there with his nifty cape and new getup. And here’s what he looks like from the back when he’s jumping all over town:


    Pretty cool stuff, huh? For comparison, I offer this shot of his original costume… unfortunately it’s only from the back, and he’s got Stealth on, but you get the gist of it:


    That last shot was taken while I was witnessing a serious bit of Hellion-herding, by the way. See if you can spot the other hero in that picture!

    Hey, at least I’m getting enjoyment out of my $15 per month…

  • Why I haven’t been updating.

    I figured it out once the fact that the “last updated” indicator for my site on Lil’s blogroll read “October 22nd” had percolated in my brain overnight. Ah! That was the day I changed the configuration on the server to switch from ‘/journal.php’ to ‘/journal’. (The old journal.php-based URLs still work, though, to preserve compatibility with those outside sites that link to specific entries here.) Apparently, ever since that switch, my pings to Blogrolling.com have been all for naught.

    The same’s been true for Wendi’s site, which I also changed that same day. The same has not been true for Lil’s site, since it was coded “the new way” from Day One. Dawn and Mari have been running Movable Type all along, so they haven’t had to deal with this at all.

    Go figure, eh? Now, of course, I need to figure out how to remedy the situation without breaking the new change…

  • What a strange thing to do… funny, though.

    I really don’t know what to say to this, other than that I find it rather amusing…

    …worth a thousand words

  • For the graphing-calculator set, mostly.

    Dawn got a 79 on this thing. Me? I didn’t score so highly


    I am nerdier than 70% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!
    I got a whopping 70 out of 100. Mind you, there were a lot of questions pertaining to graphing calculators and elements of the periodic table rather than just a bunch of computer-geek stuff. I guess I shouldn’t feel too bad about it.

    The idea was to score as high as possible, right?

  • Don’t, uh, WHAT?

    Found at The Register, this little gem:


    It’s a sad state of affairs when we need warnings like #2, there, isn’t it?

  • Inverse Progress Achieved

    When you start the day with functional but slow and incomplete network-share browsing, and end it with no network-share browsing whatsoever, you know you haven’t exactly had the most productive working day ever.

    When you “accomplish” this by following to the letter the precise instructions found on a half-dozen websites on the subject, instructions meant to solve the original problem, you know that the whole damned thing’s a scam and a waste of time.

    When you realize that you’re the only person who really needs (and I’m using “needs” in the loosest possible sense of the word) to browse Microsoft Networking shares in the first place, you know that it’s time to just take a deep breath, shrug the whole thing off and move on to your next impending disaster…