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Kirk is getting fussy with me...

I admit it, I have not updated my pointless sidebar in the last week. But doesn't that make it all the more pointless.

The real culprit is my trip to sunny Palm Springs where you can still here Bing and Blue-eyes on the radio like it's 1953. Palm Springs is nearly as surreal as Vegas - there are hundreds of tall while windmills standing guard on the edge of town, a mini Palm Springs Walk of Fame (where you won't recognize any names), and coutless nudist gay resorts.

--Dylan
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2004.02.04
Tools of the Moment
Michal Kowalski has put some useful freeware programs on the web. Probably few of you will find his 6502 Macroassembler & Simulator as useful as I did (a way of practicing the math programing I had to get the Atari 2600 to do) but his Exif Image Viewer is a simple tool that can autorotate the JPEGs that my camera notated as being taken with camera held sideways. (Other software can do this of course, but my other options seemed to be either the bloatware that came with the camera, or a downloader that used to be free but now wanted $20-$30 for functionality that is now 75% included with Windows and 25% in Kowalski's program...) He also has a font viewer for Windows, and some other programs for BeOS and the Atari ST.

Quote of the Moment
'Faith' in the language of heaven is 'Love' in the language of men.
Victor Hugo
Link of the Moment
Tips on searching with Google. Starts with the very basics but works it way up to some complex-ish strategies.

Gamer Link of the Moment
I continue to be a sucker for videogame "Top 10" lists and Top Ten Real-Time Strategy Games of All Time is no exception. I think I've only played Starcraft, but I find the genre (commanding large armies in real time) conceptually interesting, especially games that have you leading hoardes and hoardes of warriors.

Misunderstood Joke of the Moment
It's dawning on me that for years I got the "wrong" mental image from that old one liner "he's so fat, when he sits around the house, he sits around the house". I always pictured some enormously fat person, so enormous that they could sit over the house, engulfing it completely. (Yeah, what can I say, I had a graphic imagination.) Only now do I see that the joke probably means just around, only big enough to cover varying locations inside the house.