News from Cfleesia: Archive

“Six months of AI programming will make you think there is a God. Six months of...”

– /. humour on Tales From the Support Crypt

Dec 30th

“Please do not reply to this auto-answer message.”

– China Airlines

Dec 30th

Dec 29th

Travel

I’m stumped. I can’t find a way to price and check fare rules for open-jaw tickets in Asia.. the US sites are pretty useless for this. Zuji only does the simpler one-way/return combinations.

Dec 28th

“At the end of her story, the custodian said that this particular student would...”

– Our (and Your) RISD » A Tale of Respect

Dec 28th

Let’s have a network game of iConquer soon!

Dec 26th

I was just trying to figure out which of my accounts on the web can be used for OpenID.. I used WordPress.com as my provider for quite a while. It seems that the Yahoo! account I use for Flickr is the only other one. And they’ve made “flickr.com” and “yahoo.com” work instead of requiring some cryptic me.yahoo.com URL. That’s fantastic. The bad news was that...

Dec 23rd

Butter Measurement Translation Chart to Defeat... →

Dec 23rd

Dec 22nd

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Dec 13th

*screams and runs around the room* Half an afternoon out with good company and decent food goes a long way in preserving my sanity for a little while more. I absolutely (…) hate having to rush off elsewhere for some obligation before the afternoon is out. After a while the ice shelf will crack and a huge berg floats away in the ocean.

Dec 13th

Dec 9th

Watch

Storytelling 101 by Ethos3 Communications, a presentation on SlideRocket. Worth a look.

Dec 9th

AVG 8.0 install error

I ran into this error while AVG Free 8.0’s installer was running checks: Local machine: installation failed. Initialization: Error: Registry value is not a BINARY type. Cause: The key PendingFileRenameOperations in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager is of the wrong type, REG_EXPAND_SZ instead of REG_MULTI_SZ. Just deleting the key in Session Manager isn’t enough...

Dec 8th

Dec 7th

Dec 5th

Fragmentary

I’m really off-kilter this week. Been leaving pieces of me everywhere.. And just realised that the curtain behind my monitor has been hanging upside down for the last year or two.

Dec 4th

Watch

Wolfire Blog - World of Goo design tour

Dec 4th

The World Clock Project: A Community-powered... →

Really cool idea.

Dec 3rd

“Yes, all things are connected.”

– eBay Live Support rep

Dec 1st