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Google: This Site May Harm Your Computer?

Alan J Castonguay — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:17:56 +0000

Google’s search results normally flag suspicious websites, and direct their urls to a Google-powered “Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!” page.

Today, January 31st, this is broken. It appears that ALL search results on google.ca are being flagged as such, and thus no search results directly link to the given websites.

Observe also that http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic throws a status 502 error, Server Error, Bad Gateway.

Update: Same story broke at Slashdot, appears to not be localized.

Bookshelf Design

Alan J Castonguay — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:26:12 +0000

Shannon and I are running out¹ of space on our primary bookshelf. It contains 160 volumes, mostly science fiction.

We are engaging a non-profit² to make a few more bookshelves. I whipped up a few diagrams in Google SketchUp describing what we wanted. See figures 1-3 below. Not shown are the flushed wooden pegs used to hold shelves in place, augmented with wood glue.

Or have run out a long time ago, it could be argued, considering the number of books stacked sideways on top of it, or on the floor. ↩
Which made the first, full, bookshelf. ↩

CJAM Podcast RSS Feed

Alan J Castonguay — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:44:32 +0000

UPDATE: This script is down permanently, as I’m no longer at the University of Windsor.

CJAM is a local radio station broadcasting on 91.5FM run out of the University of Windsor. They provide Mp3 Archives of their shows split at 60 minute intervals, which usually coincides with a show-change. Unfortunately, though this list of mp3s updates hourly, it is not augmented with an rss feed. I decided to fix that today, with a simple regex parser to turn the Mp3 Archives page into a podcast/rss feed.

http://socr.uwindsor.ca/~castonga/cjamrss.php

Additionally, given that a particular person may be interested in a specific show, rather than the entire feed body, the script permits filtering of the show list. Just optionally specify the day and/or hour url parameters. Both accept comma-delimited lists of arguments, permitting flexible grouping of events. For example, Daybreak in Dixie runs 8-10am on Sunday. However, I like listening to We Surrender and Trancefusion on Tuesday night. Choice is good.
These feeds can be syndicated into iTunes, or any other rss-aware media player.

For a simple flower girl.

Alan J Castonguay — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 05:30:55 +0000

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is complete. And Square-Enix is the undisputed master of CG.

‘Computer characters’ shot man

Alan J Castonguay — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:45:17 +0000

news.com.au are reporting an Australian court has been told that two men dressed as characters from ‘Counter Strike‘ shot and killed a man during a Sydney home invasion on 2002-01-07. The article makes no mention of the specific dress of the persons involved, however we can infer they were clothed in either army fatigues or a shirt and glasses. How this is specifically related to CS cannot be found.

I suppose that noone’s seen people with guns outside of computer games before. It’s just like somehow these guys just don’t exist!?

I heard that there’s a bunch of people who after playing too much “America’s Army”, stormed through this country in the middle east, killing thousands of people for nothing more than oil!

Forget Video Games. The american military causes violence, let’s ban that instead.

This provides interesting contrast to my last post about guns.