Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a site called mydogmeg.net. Part of that site was a subdomain called geek.mydogmeg.net. Geek was a collection of reference sites organized in to categories and beautifully displayed through CSS.
Mydogmeg has been off the air for some time now, and I have missed its content, and I have missed the geek subdomain as well. One of the benefits of switching to Blue Host is the ability to have subdomains of my own.
So without further ado, I give you geek.zanshin.net.
NB. I haven’t tested these links in a long time, so many, or all, of them might be dead. I’ll be updating them in the coming days. Please feel free to use the comments to point out dead ones, or give me new live ones you think are worth of listing.
While we were in Germany last fall, I proposed to Sibylle on her birthday. She joyfully said yes.
{{ $image := .ResourceGetMatch “ring.jpg” }} Since then we have looked at rings on several occassions but hadn’t found a matching set we liked. Shortly before Christmas, while doing some shopping at Legends, we saw a pair of rings we both liked. We kept looking but that pair continued to stand out in our minds.
Today, while in Manhattan so Sibylle could teach a few lessons, we visited Zales again. Once again we were drawn to the same pair of rings. After a few moments thought, and some questions to the jeweler, we bought the rings.
We are both very happy.
Being a nerd, I have a salary history spreadsheet that contains every pay increase, every promotional raise, and every new job I’ve had in over the past twenty-five years. As much as possible these events are tied to the actual dates, therefore I can calculate how much I made at each salary.
The limitations of the Excel DAY() function come into play here, as it treats each year as twelve 30-day units, for a total of 360 days. Five missing days twenty five times is only 125 days out of 9125, or 1.36%. and acceptable margin of error.
Today I had the pleasure of entering this year’s salary increase, and in seeing a new lifetime earnings total.
$1,508,318.30.
Crikey.
This morning while reading an article about someones set up, I stumbled across a Safari plug-in called “Inquisitor.” It purports to be an enhancement to the built-in search field in the Safari window. I was intrigued enough that I downloaded and installed the plug-in within minutes.
My joy at new software was short-lived, however. In my lunchtime browse of my feeds I discovered a couple threads talking about some suspicious behaviour when searching through the Inquisitor plug-in. The first results are artificially boosted to that place, and when an Amazon result is possible as the result, the program’s author masks the fact that his affiliate ID is embedded in the URL. Using affiliate links is nothing new, and I have no issue with that.
But doing it without my knowledge, and further, sending some kind of packet to your server without my direct knowledge, adds up to a queasy feeling. I will be following these instructions to remove the plug-in from my machine immediately. And, unfortunately, I’ll be just a tad more jaded when it comes to new software.
Inquisitor Removal Instructions: Move these files to the trash: