I have blocked the msnbot and yahoo! web spiders from indexing this site (and all others at this IP address). They choke up the network with distributed multiple connections. Pretty silly/primitive technique of indexing a web site.
I sometimes watch the SBS television station — the content is generally of a higher standard than commercial stations with a greater display of intellectual rigour.
However, there is a Ticketek advertisement on this station with a caption, “What do you think your doing?”.
Ugh.
I work from home now. It rocks 
I also live in a rental property in the warm climate of Brisbane, Australia.
I wish to convert one of the rooms — westward-facing, 3 metres by 3 metres — into my office. I currently work in the main living area under a split system A/C and this has some problems that I want to alleviate.
Below is an image of the only window in this room. It has a single slider 570mm by 1450mm (the pink line) which is fitted with a security screen by pop-rivets. This window faces west and there is drainage outside.
What is an appropriate set up for cooling such a room, given that it is a rental property? I have looked at evaporative coolers and portable air conditioners but have been advised against both given our climate. It also appears somewhat difficult to use a portable A/C given the fixed security screen and the need for an external vent — can it me reversibly modified somehow? I find no other appropriate option and am a bit of a deadlock. Advice?
An update on IntelliJ IDEA + Scala utterly unusable
scalaz.control in Scalaz trunk)I have repeated this twice on different machines (8823). Swapping steps 3 and 4 result in a rapid degeneration of usefulness to the point of absolute uselessness.
Thanks again for listening. I hope the usability trend reverses.
From “Never again will I doom the earth because of man…” By: God By J.D. Longstreet.
The argument goes something like this. Man cannot destroy the world, since Genesis 8:21 says so. Therefore, Global Warming is a conspiracy by scientific illiterates. Yes I cringed in embarrassment too.
Ignoring the scary implications of the prevalence of this kind of superstitious crackpottery, consider the somewhat amusing (I thought so anyway) excerpt below:
Then they [the Global Warming conspirators] use the guilt trip they have imposed on fellow human beings to shame us into completely altering the way we live. It is the oldest con game in the book. And the peoples of the planet are falling for it.
I wonder which book that might be
Ben,
You have left two comments here, the second of which asked where your previous comment went. They were both caught by a spam filter and I am certain I pressed Approve on the first one and I definitely did on the second, but alas, they disappeared (WTF?).
Sorry about that, but if you could repost them, I will endeavour to ensure that they appear, since if I remember rightly, your original comment was a question of curiosity. Maybe the Wordpress guys can tell me why this is happening.
From http://www.news.com.au/comments/0,23600,23907216-462,00.html on the recent price rise by ABC Learning Centres (i.e. child care):
ABC Learing centres have now increased there fees three times since early 2007. There justification for these raises in no way benefit the children in they’re care or they’re staff!.
I noticed once before that this site was taken off Google’s search results immediately after posting a number in hexadecimal format that was apparently a copyrighted work and therefore, a violation of some other country’s law — something about DMCA. I immediately retracted this post and the web site returned to Google search results.
So I ask, what have I done now? Why can’t I google up my own rantings? Anyone got any hints?