a crank’s progress

So Windows Genuine Advantage has a hole in it:
Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’:
Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’
Cory Doctorow: AV sez, “This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the [...]

Two notes on a similar topic, recently brought to light:
scribble, scribble, scribble…:
Who first ate an oyster? And was he put up to it by a buddy? I’ll give you two shiny rocks if you eat that. Who was the first guy who looked at a horse and thought I bet I could ride one of [...]

Love Is Everything / k.d. lang / Hymns of the 49th Parallel
1_I. Andante ma non troppo - Allegro energico / Sibelius, Jean (1865 - 1957) / The Complete Symphonies 1 (Disc 1) / Colin Davis & the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Burning Down / R.E.M. / Dead Letter Office
Requiem in D Minor, K.626: 3. Sequentia: Dies Irae [...]

Went sailing on Puget Sound (or the Whulge) yesterday, from Edmonds to Kingston. Beautiful day for it, though my youngest Able Seaman succumbed to seasickness and chundered on the coaming . . . .
Interesting to see that the Edmonds to Kingston ferry has a Coast Guard escort — two extremely fast patrol boats with 50 [...]

As noted previously Drupal had a little trouble, and the community rallied around: individuals to the tune of over $10,000 and my employer with a server. So, I note that to build out their infrastructure, Drupal is going to use the community donations to buy Dell boxes. Um, let’s see here; IBM and Sun invest [...]

My daughter, aged 6, and I share the same smile now. I went to the dentist today to get a temporary false tooth installed and it didn’t fit (so much for people saying I have a big mouth). So now I just have a big unsightly gap in the same spot as hers. Once it [...]

My copy of Book The Sixth arrived yesterday and I am 3/4 through it (up til 1 AM with it).
Good so far, full of references and allusions to events past and yet to come . . . .
The war between Love and Hate, between Trust and Fear, comes to a gripping conclusion — but not [...]

Harry Potter:
The sixth book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, was released on Saturday at 12:01am. Besides buying the book, kids and adults all over our region attended Harry Potter events: sleepovers, magic shows, costume contests, and readings. But, now that it is Monday morning, how many [...]

Just heard a commercial during the Ms game for a local addiction treatment hospital. Took a look at their website and realized it was uncannily like the Ludovico Treatment from Clockwork Orange. they call it aversion therapy . . . whatever.

I took a look at my network’s signal strength with MacStumbler. The 26 is what I see most of the time, sitting 20+ feet away (the AP is downstairs, mounted to a beam), and the 74 was when I walked up and physically touched the AP with my iBook screen bezel.

Hmm, perhaps those antennas I [...]