Notes to self.

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• The 2009 Lyttle Lytton Contest.

• Found on Uncyclopedia: Objectivism-Oriented Programming.

Or, y'know, I could just get the working hard disk from the other N410c. Fucksake. Now using Kubuntu 7.10, not booted in 526 days. You can't get updates for 7.10 any more. When Freda's finished watching telly, I'll download a 9.10 ISO.

Something I wrote a few years ago in response to someone being an annoying literalist geek in pooh-poohing locked posts as too insecure to bother with:

Yes, because everything is black-and-white, and there's no such thing as grey areas in social interactions whatsoever; so you have proven there is no effective difference between a locked LJ post and putting the text in a newspaper advertisement. This irrelevance of grey areas, by the way, is why public-key infrastructure is so popular amongst the general populace.

When I post a locked post, I don't expect fifty years' secrecy. I expect to keep it from enough people that shouldn't see it long enough. Keeping it out of search engines is enough for my purposes. Cut'n'paste fairies (as they're called) can be dealt with by social means, because they're a social problem, not a technical one.

If you come up with an absurd threat model to prove something useless, it's not the something you've just done a reductio ad absurdum on.

On ITIL (in reply to David Iain Greig):

What do you mean, Unix system administration can't be predicted in fifteen-minute chunks ahead of time? I don't hear that sort of talk from the Windows team! You need to be more of a team player and on board with management, young Greg or whatever your name is! We only need individualism in line with our goals around here!

On the correct lossless compression for audio:

The flavour of the bits goes stale with the wrong sort of "lossless" compression. Fortunately, our Quantum Decoder Box, constructed with an Oxygen-Free Neural Network processing unit, can restore your music to its full spiciness, taste and aromatic correctness without the aural equivalent of sounding like it's been stored in tupperware. A snip at US$2,899.99! For the starter version, of course. The professional version is much more. But that's the price of coke and whores quality, quality work.

Plastic age:

Wanting to shag the lift's voice is perfectly normal. It's like the sexay plummy accented dominant woman talking for the GPS. I'm sure there's a whole world of bad GPS/Lift slash just waiting to make people want to spork their eyes out.

Goth humour:

I am darkly witty. You are caustic. He is grumpy.

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