I did a lot of pointless screwing around with the computers today. Drive defragging, virus scanning, software updating, that kind of thing. It’s relaxing.
networking
Okay, everything’s hooked up to the network now, and all three machines (XP desktop, Win2K laptop, and iBook) can see the Internet. Now I need to get them to see each other…
Hooking up a Windows laptop to an Airport Base Station
I just bought a USR 11Mbps wireless card for my laptop. I wanted to set things up so I could access my Airport Base Station from that laptop. It took a little doin’, but all is now well. If you need to do this, the important thing is to disable WEP on the base station, and set the PC card to “infrastructure” mode. Here are some links that might be helpful:
The Library Hotel
The Library Hotel — a hotel organized by the Dewey Decimal System. Weird.
AdSubtract
Hmmm, it looks like AdSubtract is subtracting the comment links from these Blog entries. I’ll have to look into that. (Adsubtract is nice, other than occasionally subtracting something it shouldn’t, like this.)
San Diego
Only 15 days ’til San Diego!
Some thoughts and links
Warchalking — maybe I should go draw one of these symbols on the tree out front, and see if anyone tries to hook into my Airport base station.
Swaine’s World — often interesting.
Comic Books: A Research Guide — I stumbled over this while I was looking for something else. Who knew the NY Public Library had a page on their web site devoted to comics?
AdSubtract — I usually don’t mind Internet ads, but too many people are putting up blinking ads that make my head hurt when I look at them. I mean, really, who the hell is going to buy something from someone who’s putting up ads that blink so fast that they’re causing headaches???
Gene and Helen
I just posted some pictures from Gene and Helen’s housewarming party. Enjoy.
SuperShagLand
SuperShagLand — bizarre Flash game.
Update 07/08/2018: The original link here is long gone, so I was just going to delete this post, but I searched online for a mirror of the game, just for yuks. I couldn’t find one, but I found an article on the Foreign Policy site (from 2009) mentioning it:
Consider www.supershagland.com. Developed by the British nonprofit educational foundation K-Generation, Super Shag Land advocates safe sex and hiv/aids prevention. Since launching Super Shag Land in November 2001, K-Generation says it has reached 125,000 people with its game, during which naked characters trying to get lucky win points by gathering condoms and lose points by drinking alcohol.
There probably aren’t a lot of Flash games left on the web. Flash is almost dead now. But there were definitely some weird little games made with it, back in the early 2000s.