Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

I’ve been fiddling with the settings again. Tweaking and adjusting. I can’t help it, I’m obsessive compulsive like that. I always think things could be just a little better. There’s no radical changes this time, mainly some small adjustments.

I’ve re-worked the navigation on the right so that the constant navigation elements are always in the same place at the top of the page, just seems more intuitive to me. I…

TivoBlog informs me that a new version of JavaHMO has been released.

JavaHMO 2.1 is a maintenance release of the Tivo Desktop replacement software that takes care of a few bugs that went unreported during the beta testing stages, specifically:

1. Fixed iTunes plugin drops 1 song
2. Fixed Email plugin protocol value reset bug in configuration GUI
3. Fixed shuffle repeat play bug
4. Fixed playlist shuffle bug
5. Fixed iTunes default path

You can grab…

Watch this video (Windows Media File) and tell me thats not creepily cool.

If you want to know how it works, or if you’d like to have one yourself then just pop on over to Grand Illusions where they explain it and let you print out the dragon.

I’m told that in real life the illusion is not quite as effective as it seems to be in the video. The fact that…

Story number five in the Christmas ghost story series and the third story from Charles Dickens. Enjoy.

The Trial For Murder
by Charles Dickens

I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting their own psychological experiences when those have been of a strange sort. Almost all men are afraid that what they could relate in such wise would find no parallel…

Okay, so I’m an idiot. I made a lot of changes to the site over the weekend, both on the surface and under the hood. One of those changes was a new threaded comments system. Another was to take a pass at getting my site to validate as XHTML Transitional, which it now does (yay me!).

Anyway, what I didn’t notice was that between those two things, I managed to break…