08.12.05
The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten
I was very happy to stumble across The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten, a beautiful macabre tale about the power of wishing upon a star.
2 x 2 x 2 x2 x 2
Yes, today is my birthday and I am two to the fifth. That may seem insignificant to most, but hey I’m a geek here and we are kind of trained to think in Binary. Pretty cool, wont happen again for another 32 years either.
08.06.05
A new home for PWASOH
The People With a Sense of Humor (PWASOH.com) web site is the first of my domains to move to its new home at Dreamhost.com. The site got a small feature upgrade and a bit of a make-over but more importantly it now has mailing list capabilities which means that, yes you guessed it, the PWASOH joke of the day may very well make it’s re-appearance for the first time since Yahoo killed it in March or 2004. Now my hope is that PWASOH and GeekRoar combined will not chew up my bandwidth allotment over at Dreamhost. My calculations say I should be fine, but I will be keeping an eye on things and am ready to throttle the site down if I get another sudeen rush in hits. GeekRoar.com will be moving soon and may get a bit of an enhancement as well though when it will move and how much it will change remains to be seen.
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07.20.05
Google Moon
I assume that by now you have all downloaded and wasted many hours playing with Google Earth (What, you haven’t? What the hell are you waiting for an invitation? Well you are invited, now go!) but have you seen Google Moon? Check it, and oh yeah don’t forget to zoom in for detail on the landing sites 
07.11.05
The Geek Test
I think my score on the Geek Test has gone down a bit over the years. I am currently at 50.4931% geek (that is 32 in Hex for you true geeks out there). How about you?
07.07.05
Eminent Drive Failure
Warning! Warning! Eminent Drive Failure!
Those are three words you really don’t want to see come up on your server. While trying to recover from a mangled dselect configuration I was forced to reboot the server that hosts GeelRoar.com and PWASOH.com after 212 days of uptime. During boot the server complained about hard drive damage and directed me to conduct an fsck. The data drive seems to be healthy but the system drive complained of a lot of unrecoverable errors and on reboot gave me that sickening little sentence ‘the system has detected eminent drive failure’. What to do? As I see it I have four options:
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Flickr Postcard Browser
In case you have not yet taken the time to visit the Flickr Postcard Browser go take a gander. Just feed it some keyword and see what you get. It is kind of like a Google Image search but with a much better interface and more interesting results.
07.03.05
Name that Game
Here is a throwback for the Atari generation (for you yung-uns that would be us old dinos that came before you Nintendo Generation kids). Listen to the game effect and name that game. I got 15 out of 18… not bad.
12.14.04
Home made movies make me smile
I love to see amateurs finding ways to make beautiful things with consumer technologies. That is why I was and still am so damned impressed with The Sad Song by Fredo Viola and more recently by the home-brewed iPod ad by George Masters.