Thank you for your recent generous donation to the American Cancer Society. Your support in the fight against cancer will touch countless lives both in your own community and across the country. The American Cancer Society is working tirelessly to eradicate cancer and to ease the burden of those living with cancer. Without the support [...]

/. had a front page article today about the MMO Class vs Skill system debate. Being an MMO developer, I have thoughts on the issue as well. My first thought is that it’s really a red herring: people who want skill systems don’t want skill systems, they actually want two more fundamental things. One, they [...]

Four more comments to go for the donation from this month’s 5×5. Put it over.

That’s right, it’s time for another 5×5. This time, as I threatened before, each participating comment counts for $2.50 towards a donation to the charity of my choice, up to $50. While I had one organization in mind a couple of weeks ago, they’ll have to wait a month. This month’s charity is the American [...]

Short but good. Carter really has shown himself to be a great man. How much you want to bet Shrub doesn’t quite live the Christian ethic after he gets out of the White House, like Carter has?

I got a good night sleep last night. Thank you very much, to all you pushers out there foisting Ambien on me. Your generous natures stand in stark contrast to your utter lack of ethics. I’m surprised my spam filters didn’t give you all a good hiding.

Yeah, I still hate spammers as much as ever, but mostly I’m just in a lousy mood because I got no sleep last night. I kept waking up every 20 minutes or so, just unable to string together a continuous several hours of sleep. I’m not overly bothered by anything right now (that is, I’m [...]

But right now, I’m just hating spammers more than usual. Got some slick ebay phishing mails today, got a lot of degenerate sex site comments on the blog, got lots of “confirmation of your order” emails in my gmail account,… I just want to take every spammer and just jail them. They’re like the slimiest [...]

I didn’t take good care of my teeth when I was a kid, with the consequence that I got a lot of cavities, and had two root canals before I graduated college. That woke me up, because goddamned root canals are no fucking fun. So I’ve taken much better care of my teeth as an [...]

I just found a comment that made it through the Akismet filter. I think this is the first time since I installed WP 2.0 with Akismet that a spam comment actually made it through. I’ve had perhaps four comments held for moderation, half real and half spam, and zero (0) false positives on spam comments. [...]