Wednesday, the 6th of May, A.D. 2015

in the 17th minute of the 8th hour ante meridium FYI, ASP.NET sets HttpRequest.UserAgent to null when the browser supplies an empty or no User-Agent header, not "the raw user agent string" (which would be the String.Empty for the former case, and null for the latter) as the documentation claims.

Tuesday, the 30th of July, A.D. 2013

in the 56th minute of the 7th hour ante meridium

Reasons you should not embed base64 images within documents

via Virginia Beach Website Development

Sunday, the 1st of August, A.D. 2010

in the 42nd minute of the 5th hour post meridium

So, turns out you have to add 'md5' as a local socket authentication method to your pg_hba.conf if you want phpBB3 to run on a local PostgreSQL instance.

Friday, the 28th of May, A.D. 2010

Friday, the 27th of February, A.D. 2009

in the 9th minute of the 8th hour ante meridium

Wrangling with installing Ubuntu on an Acer AcpireOne netbook, and had no end of troubles with it. To start with, my school uses SafeConnect NAC which is an absolute crap-for-crap insecure system, but has the decided disadvantage of being impossible to get running with the console mode netinstaller. Since I needed encrypted LVM, I had to get the Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex alternate install on a flash drive. Here's what I found:

Thursday, the 4th of December, A.D. 2008

in the 49th minute of the 8th hour post meridium

I'm lonely, but I don't like the vast majority of humanity, nor am I particularly socially inclined.

The Mime

Saturday, the 14th of June, A.D. 2008

in the 21st minute of the 11th hour ante meridium

Lio loses a turn

Lio Loses a Turn

Friday, the 13th of June, A.D. 2008

in the 44th minute of the 11th hour post meridium

Ever an auspicious date, Friday the thirteenth saw a sold-out house for our Let's Harmonize Radio Hour at the Banksia.

Tuesday, the 20th of May, A.D. 2008

in the 6th minute of the 9th hour post meridium

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: What is — what is reasonable about a total ban on possession?

MR. DELLINGER: What is reasonable about a total ban on possession is that it’s a ban only on the possession of one kind of weapon, of handguns, that's been considered especially — especially dangerous.

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: So if you have a law that prohibits the possession of books, it’s all right if you allow the possession of newspapers?

District of Columbia v. Heller

Friday, the 16th of May, A.D. 2008

in the 55th minute of the 9th hour ante meridium

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”

Tuesday, the 6th of May, A.D. 2008

in the 15th minute of the 11th hour ante meridium

Copper: 'Of course, he'll probably replace me with another 
dog, or with a girl.

Copper #30, “Good Life”

Tuesday, the 29th of April, A.D. 2008

in the 25th minute of the 1st hour post meridium

Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?

—Beatrice Rappaccini, in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”

Tuesday, the 22nd of April, A.D. 2008

Friday, the 18th of April, A.D. 2008

in the beginning of the 7th hour ante meridium

Big Brother: it's not just the Democrats anymore

Big Brother: it's not just the Democrats anymore

in the 51st minute of the 6th hour ante meridium

The Democrats are destroying themselves.

Maketh me to giggle.

Thursday, the 17th of April, A.D. 2008

in the 49th minute of the 9th hour ante meridium

Feminists need to stop imperiously assuming they speak for all women: even all otherwise socially-liberal women. Not the purview simply of conservatism, a rational approach to gender is more widespread among women than the feminists would have us believe.

Monday, the 14th of April, A.D. 2008

in the 44th minute of the 5th hour post meridium

Why should I trouble myself about you or them; what right have you to disturb my peace?

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses

in the 2nd minute of the 2nd hour post meridium

I think I've figured out what it is exactly that I like about JiffyLube. It's like having servants.

“Jeeves, check the tires, will you?”

in the 57th minute of the 1st hour post meridium

Seven demitasses drying on the counter. Life is good.

Monday, the 10th of March, A.D. 2008

in the 19th minute of the 12th hour post meridium

The Naturopathy Theis: Herbs are not Drugs - debunked

Apologies to Indexed.