Monthly Archives: September 2007

The Blade Runner box set to end all Blade Runner box sets

From the amazon.com product description:
Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott’s definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech [...]

The magic of htaccess

While searching for the syntax of the Apache configuration directive FilesMatch, I ran into an old blog post at Perishable Press called Stupid htaccess Tricks. It’s a really nice rundown of things you can do with .htaccess files in Apache. Well worth a quick look or a bookmark for future reference.
I love it when gems [...]

This is getting ridiculous

My office at the university now hosts no less that 4 computers. To the far left is my old laptop with an extra screen. Next to that is my new machine that I am in the process of setting up. To the right of that is the machine I use to sequence applications for SoftGrid [...]

Multirant, part 2

I thought of some more things that annoy me.

That the quickest video card you can put in a Mac Pro is STILL an old X1900 XT. This a recurring rant.
Golfers who use belly putters or long putters. I mean, come on!
That a DVR with double HD capable tuners doesn’t exist. At least not one that [...]

The Pretender

I just cannot stop listening to this one. Every time I hear it, I get the sudden urge to break something. And that’s a good thing!