17 December 2005 – 11:50 pm
Today marks the completion of my third decade on this planet and I am quite pleased to be able to announce that I ain't dead yet. But worry not gentle reader, I'll not be subjecting you to some passé retrospective about my life. Instead, I'll just recap today and today alone.
I was [...]
By Mark
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22 November 2005 – 11:50 pm
Over the weekend, Ariesna & I went with some friends to watch Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I went into the movie with extremely low expectations1 but much to my surprise; I rather liked the movie. Sure huge chunks of the book were wacked out, but you have to expect that [...]
By Mark
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Posted in Life, Movies, Reviews
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Also tagged Code, collection, con, dvd, friends, job, journal, Link, movie, Movies, series
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2 November 2005 – 11:04 am
Threads of Malice
My rating: 4 out of 5.
I read Threads of Malice last week1 and wowsers! If you've read Ghosts in the Snow then you need to be warned before reading Threads that Ghosts is a much lighter book than Threads. The villian in Threads is far more evil than the one in [...]
By Mark
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Posted in Books, Reviews
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Also tagged Books, Car, cli, con, family, HAL, IM, job, Life, mystery, problem, quote, reading, review, Reviews, Sci-fi, Snow, war, Weather, writing
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After talking with my webhost, we tracked the spike in my bandwidth usage to a group of IP addresses in 64.62.168.*. Upon further investigation, it appears one or more computers in that block of IP addresses is searching for some sort of vulnerability in various online forum software. Since I do run a [...]
16 September 2005 – 10:27 am
Apologies to all my faithful readers, I've been busy working on some new features for the ICON 30 website (with some massive help from Aizuchi. For extra pain, we're into our next beta cycle at work; so I'm considerably busier there. And if that wasn't enough, I've had a bit of a [...]
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Also tagged anime, AnimeIowa, Books, Code, coffee, con, doctor, fish, funny, HAL, IM, journal, Link, pain, photo, podcast, portal, problem, tea, thoughts, video, Webcomics, work, working
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