Pidgin
I always wondered why this didn’t happen sooner. I didn’t know about gaim-text (now “Finch”), which allows one to use Pidgin from a Unix text terminal.
I always wondered why this didn’t happen sooner. I didn’t know about gaim-text (now “Finch”), which allows one to use Pidgin from a Unix text terminal.
This looks like a nice free service.
I learn’d me lesson on my lazily-designed custom error page, so it’s been redesigned to report the actual error and not just assume it was a 404. This might come into play if I ever have to add an RBL spam detector into my config (spamhaus was there by default).
I’m … buffering … a beta tester now for … buffering … Joost.
It’s … buffering … really neat. … buffering.
I would guess that Think Geek was surprised that people actually wanted this crazy article of clothing to be real. I think it’s awesome.
Apparently, the site commenting system is broken. This is quite probably not my doing, so I’m checking into patches. While the backend interface of Textpattern has had much progress, I’m afraid this most recent version is a little unstable on the presentation side.
Edit: To be honest, I have no clue what’s going on with the commenting system. It’s fine up to the preview, then it boinks with a 404.
Everybody comment away. They’re working again for me.
Apparently, sbl.spamhaus.org is blocking the world, and the 404’s we have been seeing are a pretty way of indicating that. Not informative, but pretty.
So, fire away and send me mail if it still doesn’t work.
I was checking out the various Reliant Energy electricity plans, and I’m puzzled. They have the OneRate Secure and the OneRate Flex plans. Secure tries to even out your cash flows over the year to smooth the gaps, and Flex is a simple constant forward rate.
I’ve had too much finance, because looking at this really busts my chops. The Secure plan, which clearly involves some degree of forecasting or at the least averaging, is cheaper by 0.5 cents (14.9 cents/kWh).
I would gather that the Secure plan gives the Big Evil Corporation a better chance to jigger around with averages and massage things to their liking. They also get to assess a $100 penalty if you don’t finish the first year (probably so people don’t sign up in Fall and cancel in Spring costlessly).
The Flex plan makes it look like you are taking the fixed price payer position in an electricity swap, which seems like a reasonable thing for which to pay extra.
I suppose when you’re dealing with these razor-thin marginal spreads between Flex and Secure, simply the present-value benefit of holding your Fall electricity savings until the next summer would probably erase the benefit of the lower nominal 14.9 cent/kWh rate of the higher cash flows in the off-months.
Crooks.
I could probably count on my fingers the number of times a “novelty” product makes its way to my own little sphere of interest, but this one is something just a little more special than usual.
Every now and then, I hear myself saying “I like Soundgarden, but their albums are so laborious, underdeveloped, and shallow.” I then try to broaden my horizons a bit and play either Down on the Upside or Superunknown to see if my tastes or perceptions have changed since the last time.
I get maybe 4 to 7 tracks into the album, and say, “I am an idiot. This rocks.” I’ve nearly heard all the singles on the album at this point. Then, I realize I still have about 10 backtracks to get through before the album is over. And, these backtracks are often a minute or more longer than the average single.
Then, I’m about back to where I started.