On another note, I am pleased to announce that my geoip database has over 4700 entries! I still don’t know what I’m going to use it for, but its still a neat thing to see.

I am also working on two programs and Quirx, which I will write about soon.

The default theme will still be Mystic, but now you’ll also have Simplistic Blue and Webby Blue to choose from.

I have still yet to find a nice, blue based theme, that’s WordPress3 compatible.

Night!

For those of you who don’t know, bokeh is a style of photography that focuses on the forground, while making light sources in the background appear blurry, or more precisely, appear as blurred rings or stars.

The wallpapers are 1920 by 1080 pixels, I may decide to do them in other sizes. For now, just center them.

I also had a whopping 449MB left on the massive 1.35 GB hard drive.

What you want to do is relax, download this registry file, unzip it, and run it. The changes might not take place until a restart. Mine changed in a few minutes by itself.

You can look in the registry file to see there’s nothing evil in there.

There you go!

Portal Shots

First Shot
2/3 shot Gold Tequila
1/3 shot Orange Juice

Second Shot
2/3 shot lime juice or Roses lime
1/3 shot Bol Blue or blue curasou

Directions: Take the first shot, immediately take the second shot.
Your trusted friend in science.

Thanks to: The Drunken Moogle

On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.

The Guru is allowed to speak once (let’s say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:

“I can see someone who has blue eyes.”

Who leaves the island, and on what night?

There are no mirrors or reflecting surfaces, nothing dumb. It is not a trick question, and the answer is logical. It doesn’t depend on tricky wording or anyone lying or guessing, and it doesn’t involve people doing something silly like creating a sign language or doing genetics. The Guru is not making eye contact with anyone in particular; she’s simply saying “I count at least one blue-eyed person on this island who isn’t me.”

The answer is not “no one leaves.” Much care has been taken to make the wording as precise and unambiguous as possible. If you’re confused about anything, please let me know. A word of warning: The answer is not simple. This is an exercise in serious logic, not a lateral thinking riddle. There is not a quick-and-easy answer, and really understanding it takes some effort.

Wait, let me start over. So I text/chatted with them yesterday asking about the Windows 7 CD that came with my laptop. The computer shipped with 7 Home Premium on it, but they sent a Windows 7 Started Edition CD by mistake. So I want to reinstall the OS, but not via the recovery partition. I look at the CD and say “Oh dear, wrong CD”. So I chatted up tech support where a nice lady (Whom I had to explain the problem three times) said she would send me a copy of the Windows 7 Home Premium CD AS WELL AS a completely new hard drive with it preinstalled. I told her that the CD would suffice, but she was insistent that I took the hard drive as well. (Maybe I’m not smart enough to install it from a CD).

So anyway, the CD is being delivered, as well as a new 320 GB hard drive. This isn’t the first time Dell’s been so giving, by the way. Over the course of the four years I had my old desktop, they replaced the motherboard, CPU, and monitor for free. Its near impossible to get to tech support, but once you’re there, its all good.

Thanks Dell.

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Serious error.

All shortcuts have disappeared.

Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Your file was so big.

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.

The Website you seek

Cannot be located, but

Countless more exist.

With searching comes loss

And the presence of absence:

“My Novel” not found.

A crash reduces

Your expensive computer

To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:

Death, taxes and lost data.

Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,

But the water has moved on.

This page is not here.

Out of memory.

We wish to hold the whole sky,

But we never will.

Having been erased,

The document you’re seeking

Must now be retyped.