MacAlpine.org

Seems exhibitionists have found away to push images of themeselves on unsuspecting Ebay purchasers. They even have word for this act — Reflectoporn

Lately, the members of the Bell lab have become obsessed with the game of darts. We now have a dartboard in the lab and are busy practicing darts instead of pushing back the frontiers of science. Here is a motivational clip of a perfect nine dart game of 501 thrown by Phil Taylor. Warning, the download is large (~12 Mb).

Off to mexico for a week in may. Finally booked the trip, we will be staying at the Moon Palace. Now we just have to find a strong sunscreen.

This really pisses me off. If a file has *ever* been accessible via http or even resided in a directory accessible via http, you can assume that google has seen it. You can not hide anything. You may not think your page is linked to from the outside world, but if you link out to other pages they know which page the request came from. Some sites even have their referral logs online. You can not hide!

I have a finely tuned .procmailrc file for filtering all of my email. Spam goes to spam, mailing lists go to respective folders etc. Only a select few messages make it to my inbox. I also have it set up to read out loud the sender and subject of each email that arrives in using the Festival speech synthesizer. My lab mates have caught on to this and are starting to have some fun at my expense.

I hope (if anyone is actually reading) you may have noticed that the webpage is finally being hosted at a machine called www.macalpine.org instead of shiner.mit.edu/~davidm. It took quite a lot of tweaking to get an authorative nameserver set up to point the entire domain at one of MITs computers. I hope they (MIT) don’t mind.

The apartment below us has been vacant for quite awhile now, but there has been a sudden flurry of realtors showing the apartment. For some reason realtors with master keys tend to be curious and peak inside apartments they have absolutely no right to be in! “Oh..I didn’t know the 3rd floor was occupied.”, is not an excuse! Bastards! So I’ve taken the liberty of installing a realtor cam. If you are lucky you just might catch myself or heather as well.

UPDATE — Re-enabled the realtor cam at 5 frames/second. Hopefully, this will cure my upstream bandwith woes.

My folks recently went on a cruise. I think (hope) I may be adopted.

Given recent events with the litigious bastards at SCO regarding linux, I thought this was a damn funny Google Bomb

As you have probably noticed, I have not updated the site in quite awhile. I was quite shocked to find that I am still getting several hundred hit a day. This is the reason. Note the search term. Needless to say, I am in quite a bit of trouble. The funny thing is that the picture is actually moving up in the ranking!