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December 2008

23 posts

“

Six months of AI programming will make you think there is a God. Six months of tech support and you’ll know there isn’t.

Six months of each will make you realise there is a God, and his sense of humor sucks.

”
—/. humour on Tales From the Support Crypt
Dec 31, 2008
“Please do not reply to this auto-answer message.” —China Airlines
Dec 31, 2008
Dec 29, 2008
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 29, 2008
“At the end of her story, the custodian said that this particular student would later open the door for her when she was carrying heavy things, ask how her family was doing, and constantly show concern for her well-being. It was a tale of respect. Mutual respect. It happens every day here in our community. It is founded upon conversations, and giving each other a chance to hear and say their views. It is founded upon the emotional and intellectual philanthropy that lies at the heart of our great school of art and design. And I’m proud and honored to be a part of our RISD.” —Our (and Your) RISD  » A Tale of Respect
Dec 28, 2008

Let’s have a network game of iConquer soon!

Dec 26, 2008

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 MovableType broke. 

Dec 23, 2008
Butter Measurement Translation Chart to Defeat Nefarious Recipe Writers → ochef.com
Dec 23, 2008
Play
Dec 23, 2008
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Dec 20, 2008
Dec 14, 2008

*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 13, 2008
Dec 9, 2008
Play
Dec 9, 2008
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 - as it’s vaguely virtual and linked to one of the other control sets in HKLM\SYSTEM, you need to go through all of them and replace the key with one of the correct type.

References: [1] [2]

Dec 8, 2008
Dec 7, 2008
Dec 6, 2008
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 4, 2008
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Dec 4, 2008
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