Notes, forwards, MP3s, etc.

Haxorz

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Yay! My first virus in Vista.

Processes, such as "rsoxanwcem.exe", are spawning and a Russian version of MS Paint keeps opening.

I has a TV

Rise

Love Map

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From: OkCupid! <bounces@mail1.oknotify2.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Subject: World Map of Your Matches

OpenGL primitives

Russian song is a tongue twister to me

 

A na nebe luna, i ona ne prava, jeto byla ne ja,
A na nebe slova, kto-to skazhet, da-da - jeto byla sud'ba,
A na nebe moj son, no ne mne snitsja on, jeto bylo davno.
Ty nad nim ne kruzhi luchshe mne podskazhi, pochemu so mnoj?
Ot pechali net tolka, ty begi, begi, dogonjaj menja,
I ja pohozha na volka dve nedeli, kak voju na lunu,
Ty esli podozhdesh' nemnogo i ne poterjaj to, chto nahozhu,
Ved' ja pohozha na volka - voju na lunu,voju na lunu, voju

Voju na lunu, voju na lunu voju,
Voju na lunu, voju na lunu.
Voju na lunu, voju na lunu voju,
Voju na lunu, voju na lunu.

A na nebe mosty, pod mostami sledy, ot kogo ot chego?
Pochemu den' i noch' ja gonju tebja proch', chtob ne dumat' o nem,
Nam nel'zja byt' vdvoem, my igraem s ognem, tak chego ty svetish'?
Luna, chto ty molchish'? Ty zhe vsjudu tverdish', chto nuzhdajus' ja v nem
Ot pechali net tolka, ty begi, begi dogonjaj menja,
I ja pohozha na volka dve nedeli, kak voju na lunu,
Ty esli podozhdesh' ne mnogo, i ne poterjaj to chto nahozhu,
Ved' ja pohozha na volka voju, voju, voju na lunu

Voju na lunu, voju na lunu voju,
Voju na lunu, voju na lunu.
Voju na lunu, voju na lunu voju,
Voju na lunu, voju na lunu.

Is Appjet Dead?

This question was posed in the AppJet forums by Angus, who went on to write:

: seems no update / response from appjet developer any more

In my opinion, AppJet is not dead, more like hibernation.

You have to understand, the company went over a year with no apparent revenue or further investments. Now they're working on commercial offerings of Etherpad, which is shaping up to be a money magnet. But it's going to require massive scale, so they need to rewrite a ton of code and perfect a server setup. A steady stream of profit will not only keep the company alive but allow it to expand so as to better juggle multiple products. So, though you and I might personally prefer updates to AppJet.net, Etherpad is their best bet going forward.

Etherpad also happens to be an AppJet framework app (at least partially), so they end up working on both internally and are just too busy to push out polished updates.

Although the PR blackout comes off as discourteous, I don't believe we've seen the peak of AppJet.

Weapon of Choice

You can go with this,
Or you can go with that.
You can go with this,
Or you can go with that.
You can go with this,
Or you can go with that,
Or you can throw with us!

Passport Numbers

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From: A. Omar Baltuth
Date: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Subject: online DS-11 preparation page
To: passportweb@state.gov

"To report technical problems with this web site, please email us at passportweb@state.gov":  I've got one for you.  

I recently completed an application for a passport using the following ASP.

In the edit control for the serial number of an expired passport issued in 1981, I attempted to put in the number punched through all the pages of the booklet on the top edge.  The number has an alphabetic character followed by six numerals, to wit, B700468.  As far as I can tell, this is the "book number", which is nomenclature that only seems to be used on the web site and the forms.  On the actual passport, the serial number is referred to differently.  Do you call it the "book number" on the passport card?

The wizard would not let me continue after entering only seven characters.  I realize that current passport "book numbers" are nine digits, and that your ASP attempts to enforce validity for the current numbering system.  However, it didn't object to the alphabetic character, so that was a partial accommodation.  But, the absence of any instructions about what to do if the serial number of an old passport had fewer than nine digits was vexing.  It wouldn't let me put in dashes or "XX", so I experimented and put two extra zeroes in.  It took that.

The alphabetic character followed by six digits is the number on the passport, so the ASP should have let me enter it.  Enforcing strict field rules that may be invalid does nothing to help the user complete the wizard, in fact, it is an obstacle that a great number of people would not be able to figure out.  Most people I've asked about this said they would give up and get a blank form and fill it out by hand.  Is that what you want?

I suggest that you take off the field length restriction on that edit control.  At the very least, make it accept seven to nine characters to accommodate people like me who only get a passport every 28 years or so.

Thanks.
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A. Omar Baltuth