Dave Kellam

There’s a new design in the pipes; I got in a design groove last night and lost track of time, resulting in a late night and a day with not as much sleep as I was planning on. I’m used to it though.

This new layout should be up in the near future, I want to take some time to implement the template with some of the other sections, so I get a nice uniform feel to the site. I should probably redo all the sidebar posts, the format that they’re in is kind of dumb.

Go windows! With the whole not using windows, i tend not to keep abreast of bug announcements from Microsoft, they tend to find some major exploit every other day. Of course, my mom phones up last night and tells me that the computer is doing funky shit, like RPC and rebooting, I figured explorer was pretty messed on that computer (which it is) and told her to stop using it and outlook express, guess I was wrong. I got to the camp this morning and all the kids had the reboot message popping up on their screens, I didn’t install all of the patches when i created the disk image last week. Oh well, we got it fixed it was a just a bit of pain-in-the-ass with everyone trying to connect to Windows Update server to download the patches. Doing the sysadmin thing this week makes me feel a lot of sympathy for those poor it-support bastards that have probably had to deal with this all day.

The virus doesnt appear all that malicious, just annoying. If you’re using windows I recommend grabbing the patch and the cleaner. That should fix everything up nicely.

Didn’t really do all that much this weekend, just slept a lot and tried to recover from the weeks of dealing with children. It’s back to computer camp with the older kids this week.

I had my Saturday of police movies with S.W.A.T. followed by Narc. SWAT? Well, it’s not really that bad — it’s a popcorn action flick. The script was horribly written with a standard plot and the stilted dialog. It was the actors that made they movie, they managed to turn in some good performances with what they were given. It was entertaining, that’s what it was supposed to be; i just wanted to avoid the thinking and sit in a nice air-conditioned theatre. Narc was pretty good, another actor driven flick, kind of like Training Day. Oh, and Ray Liotta referring to Busta Rhymes’ character as Coolio was kind of funny.

I just did a clean windows install to setup the computers for camp next week, here’s what windows update looks like.
That’s a lot of updates.

And here’s a post office experiment, in which some people tried to see what would go through the postal service and what items wouldn’t make it.

Here’s one of those phrases that I never really envisioned being published:

“In theory you could phone up and listen to dolphins while sitting in a traffic jam in Dublin,

Technology is a wild and wonderful thing. Someday, I want to be able to talk to the penguins or monkeys, give me my monkey-phone dammit.

In news that seems surprising to some, Arnold has announced that he will be running for governor of California. I want to think that politician’s and analysts shouldn’t have been fooled by the smoke screen that the actor put up, but I really don’t know. In completely unrelated news, the now appears to be a monkey vaccine that is resistant to ebola.

I think it’s a great idea to deploy only 7-10 troops in every country that request military aid. That way if one of them gets killed, you can claim losses at over 10% and use the statistics to force a political pullout. It’s great.

Here are the results from my personality disorder test, coutesty of Riz. It’s on and off, but looks kind of pretty (or ugly) on the webpage.

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	High
Schizoid:	Moderate
Schizotypal:	High
Antisocial:	Moderate
Borderline:	Moderate
Histrionic:	Low
Narcissistic:	Low
Avoidant:	High
Dependent:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:	Moderate
Personality Disorder Test