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Happy birthday, Colleen! #

I feel useless. Bored. There are things I could (and should) be doing. I have no desire for some reason. Sometimes I feel like I don’t have any friends.

Of course that’s not true. You might say that I sound mildly depressed.

Perhaps.

Time for sleep, I guess. #

France is the first defending champion to go home without scoring a goal. Unbelieveable.

This is shaping up to be a great world cup. #

I watched the USA vs. Korea world cup game last night (starting at 2:30am). It was excellent! Very exciting, especially when you compare it to common American sports events like the world series or superbowl. Looks like we’ve secured our place in the next round for sure.

Winamp’s shuffle feature is horrible. I’ve loaded 1800 songs onto my playlist, and it keeps playing the same 50 or so over and over again. #

I said “sweer” on the phone to Colleen recently. She said, “What? Sweer?” Yes, sweer.

The Mozilla spellchecker doesn’t like sweer. It wants to replace it with sweet.

Which would be correct. #

Mozilla is now my default browser. I played Jedi Knight II for a while tonight. I’m getting better. I miss CS. Today’s been pretty boring. Finished a book, worked out, had dinner, etc. I ordered some sandals.

Joe quit his job. Good for him. He needs a job; mine starts in two weeks (supposedly). It would be nice to get a job now, but do I really want to give up the Best Job Ever?? I don’t know.

Yawn. I think I’ll go start a new book now. #

Yesterday, the mozilla.org group released Mozilla 1.0, an open-source standards-complaint browser. Consider it the competitor to Internet Explorer. Things will get very interesting when IE can be taken out of Windows XP with SP1 and 2000 with SP3.

I loves me some standards-compliance. I can’t tell you how many problems I had with IE6 and its CSS support. Of course, Mozilla 1.0 RC3 showed the page correctly every time.

For extra added HTML fun: try hovering your mouse over “CSS” above. #

Today is the 1-year anniversary of my jaw surgery. I had an orthodontist visit to celebrate.

Happy birthday, titanium! #

Today I watched a shuttle launch, from my front lawn. That was cool.

I just finished playing some Jedi Knight II multiplayer, where even wookies get light-sabers and force powers. It was fun. I need to configure my force powers so that I can use sith lightning!

geek++

I’m lonely. And kind of bored. #

“And don’t tell me there isn’t one bit of difference between null and space, because that’s exactly how much difference there is.” -Larry Wall

Brilliant! (Do you get it?) #

I spent most of today goofing around and downloading Jazz. I watched most of A.I. (just as weird the second time), and I did some laundry. Yay.

A.I. brings up some interesting problems. Eventually, the human race will interact with intelligent, spiritual machines. What happens when the intelligence of these machines surpasses that of the human race? Will the humans and machines develop seperately, or will they eventually form a single entity, a singularity?

Obligatory KurzweilAI.net link. #

I’ve been having some problems with Windows XP’s Fast User Switching feature. That is, it doesn’t work, as well documented here. Looks like data corruption is to blame. Looks like time to format (didn’t I just do this a few weeks ago?). Good thing I have another hard drive to do quick backups.

This would also be an ideal opportunity to buy some longer IDE cables, so that I can put my drives in the right master/slave setup for CD burning and HD-to-HD copying. It’s setup in a very inefficient way right now. #