http://blog.verselogic.net The personal blog of Alan J Castonguay. Thu, 28 May 2009 01:12:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/google-this-site-may-harm-your-computer/ Apple's Frontrow provides for ability to select and play arbitrary video files, usually from the ~/Movies/ directory. I take issue with the file browser user interface. Given a series of Movies, the interface works quite well. It obvious that this was the experience it was polished for. However, given a directory with ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/frontrow-filename-truncated/ Shannon and I are running out ((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.)) of space on our primary bookshelf. It contains 160 volumes, mostly science fiction. We are engaging a non-profit ((Which ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2009/bookshelf-design/ Children are taught very little with respect to their approach to the internet, which is probably the crux of another problem. One, I argue, that is more significant. First and foremost, if they are taught anything at all, it's a very shallow "don't tell anyone anything personal about yourself" mentality. If ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/who-will-prepare-our-kids-for-the-realities-of-the-internet/ I just upgraded to from Tiger (10.4.10) to Leopard (10.5.5), and found the behavior of keyboard+click combinations in Mail.app to have changed, in quite an annoying manner. I used to use the following techniques in Tiger's Mail.app to sort large volumes of mail, usually when marking as spam. Scenario 1 Given a set ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/shift-click-behavior-in-leopard-mailapp/ Tom Smith has torn something in his leg climbing up onto the stage at the Ark in Ann Arbor. As a result, this filker is in the hospital. Being a poor starving artist filker, he could really use a little help with the medical bills. In return for a donation of ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/tom-smith-filk-fund-raiser/ I know this is old news, coming from April 2007, but it has been bugging me all year. How the hell does a 30 year old woman pretend to be a 14 year old boy, move in with a 14 year old girl, be in a relationship for a year, have ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/girl-had-suspected-boyfriend-was-woman/ I've been looking for AMV ideas outside of drama, tending toward fun-pop-action, or romance. If I'm going to go with romance, it should be between cute girls who don't know how to express themselves. I'm sure that Kona-chan would approve. Did you ever think of me As your best friend Did I ever ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/hooverphonic-eden/ This is the letter that I sent to my Member of Parliment (MP), Wayne Marston on June 17th 2008, after the tabling of bill C-61. The American DMCA has many faults, but one of the more serious faults found within is the so-called "anti-circumvention law". This law essentially makes it illegal ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/canadian-dmca-bill-c-61-second-letter-to-mp-wayne-marston/ Lain Everliving asked me some random questions over a year ago. 1. When you, uh, tongue-raped me at Otakon, you whispered in my ear that I "wasn't your first." Who was, and perhaps more importantly, why? (If I've asked you this before, please forgive my bad memory) I attempted to execute the ... http://blog.verselogic.net/archives/2008/a-friendly-inquiry/