I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

Edit: I’ve just learned that the ban has been lifted. High School Bans American Flag SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C. – On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American Flag. Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not […]

Why is it that sometimes the most seemingly insignificant replacement parts cost more than they should? I have a rather nice lamp that sits over my desk at home. Nothing fancy, but it’s one of those flexible “bendy” lamps that you can contort and twist into any direction that you’d like. It has holes in […]

This morning I ran across this story at Blogging Pro about a scumbag editor who attempted to extort funds from the site owner of Shoemoney.com for his already existing listing at DMOZ. Read this snippet: A while back I got a email from a guy claiming to be a DMOZ editor saying that I had […]

I’m sitting in one of my Dreamweaver classes and was browsing Google news during one of the breaks, and ran across this story: Foods Tastes Better With McDonald’s Logo, Kids Say Most 3- and 5-year-olds who taste-tested a variety of foods said they preferred the ones in the McDonald’s wrapper — even though the foods […]

Apparently BellSloth is having issues again. For the last two days, anything sent from UAB to a BellSouth address has bounced. I’ve heard from friends at several other companies where this is happening, as well as those whose domains are hosted by BS and are receiving no email at the mo. Lovely … and we’ve […]

I like to think I’m pretty careful. Whenever possible, I try to avoid spoilers to books and movies that I have every intention on reading/seeing. I don’t mind when people post spoilers, just as long as it’s prefaced with a very blatant spoiler warning, or in the case of LiveJournal, WordPress, Blogger and similar blogging […]