They missed out on 25 years worth of events in the world: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID;=634871 No first war in Iraq, no end of the Cold War, no Internet, no home computers for that matter. No Challenger disaster. No Columbia disaster. No Bill Clinton. No first Bush. No Twin Towers. Hmmm…hard to imagine…

I have always heard about this mysterious “Lake Effect Snow” but have never seen it firsthand. I still haven’t seen it firsthand but I do have a satellite photo which shows what it looks like from orbit. If you live in Michigan, be afraid, be very afraid: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0412/lakeeffect_seawifs_big.jpg

I claim victory over the spambot that was attacking my website. I crush it like grape between my fingers. Crush it!!! I have not received any spam now for 2 days! I designed a dynamic form generator that creates different field names for each field on the comment form every time the form is loaded. So what used to be the “Name” field on the form is now the “2348234” field.

Another excellent movie and a very good sequel from Quentin Tarantino. Not quite as good as the first but still great. Each movie was written in its own style and are completely different from each other. This one focuses less on the martial arts and more on character development and story. Every scene in the movie is memorable but the two that really stand out for me are the scene with Pai Mei and the scene where the Bride goes after Budd.

Wow. What an awesome movie. To start, I’ve now seen both 1 and 2 and my favorite of the two is the first one. I really enjoyed the swordplay. Gotta give Uma Thurman a lot of respect. She must have worked out and practiced for hundreds of hours to get those moves down. I also really enjoyed the soundtrack. Both the movie and the soundtrack are highly recommended. The best song on the soundtrack is called Battle Without Honor or Humanity.

I loved this novel. I read it while I was in Turkey for J’s wedding at the end of October. What an interesting glimpse into the future. The premise regards a huge, innovative company whose primary product is a near-perfect matchmaking service. Behind the service is an AI construct which uses a variety of complicated algorithms to pair men and women together. While this seems fairly benign, it all gets very intriguing when one of these matches ends up a murder/suicide.

I am starting to evolve a strategy to win more auctions while paying as little as possible. If you are familiar with eBay, you know that it allows you to see items up for auction, sorted by time left in the auction. Of particular interest are those items which are down to less than an hour. Those items show up in red in the list. When I started doing eBay I was bidding days in advance and definitely within that final hour or so.

I have finally discovered eBay. You’d think being a web developer and all, and especially one who thrived and survived in the dotcom bubble days, that I would have discovered it before. But, alas, it always seemed a little too good to be true for me. When I think of auctions, I usually think of some old guy with a loud voice selling off junk seized in a police drug raid.

I haven’t posted since waaaaay back in October, before I went to Istanbul to visit Ahu’s side of the family. The reason is that this website has been attacked every single day by a new breed of “spam” - the comment advertisement. About 150 or so comments have been added to various articles on this website advertising everything from online casinos to phentermine. I can’t tell if it is being done by a person or by a new spambot but its been a bit annoying.

I took the file extension quiz to see what file extension I am. If you have no idea what I am talking about, you don’t spend enough time on the web. My file extension is: Which File Extension are You?