Incidentally, the JPEG patent has been partially invalidated.

Yes, I’m censoring myself. I just have some posts that I want to put out their for friends to read. E-mail me if you want the password for these posts (they’ll all be the same).

If you remember the old login/password I use to protect pictures on my gallery, it’s the login and password concatenated together.

From this article:

Nearly 70% of readers said they are most looking forward to Wii. 21% voted for PlayStation 3, while the others voted for systems already released.

So 9% of readers didn’t understand the question at all?

In other news, my company has been acquired today. The majority of people around the office are not happy about this. I’m not going to go into details but lets just say the company wide conference call didn’t do much to make us feel good about our future. All they really said was, “don’t quit, keep working.”

Today’s lesson: never use “root” as the super user in a system that’s getting shipped to the UK/Australia. Why? From Wikipedia:

• Root cause, the primary source or origin
• Root (linguistics), the core form of a word
• To root, a slang term for “to have sexual intercourse“
• Roots Canada Ltd., a Canadian garment manufacturer
• Roots type supercharger

I started an e-mail thread about the possibility of me coding in a failsafe for our software so if the administrator really screws up our authentication service configuration it will fall back to accepting a user with the login root. This would allow the administrator to at least login in order to fix the problem.

I quickly got a response from a co-worker who pointed out that in the UK/Australia, the administrators get quite a giggle every time they have to login as root. I’ve decided that if we do add the failsafe in, I’m using HCSAdmin as the login.

The new 007 teaser has got me going!

Check it out!

Who would have thought the combination of crazy action, cool shiny cars, lots of gadgets, and (of course) may beautiful women would be enough to make me want to watch this movie?

Come on November!

p.s. House hunting sucks. So does buying new tires (so very expensive).