What evolutionary advantage can there be in humans having the hair on their heads grow indefinitely? Hair on other parts of our bodies stops at a certain length. But, short of things like baldness, if we don’t cut the hair on our heads it will just keep on merrily getting longer until we eventually die. …
A couple nights ago on Dog Eat Dog (I really shouldn’t be so quick to admit that I watch these shows) the following trivia question was asked: What is the given name of the British royal heir? Simple. But it suddenly occured to me that I couldn’t think of the surname of the Royal family. …
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I think that I’ve finally got my personal site and blog all formatted and integrated properly. No more duplicate or contradictory code, it validates as strictly standards compliant, and it looks the same in both IE and Mozilla. But I had to laugh. I was up until very late last night (or very early this …
This is one of those reality shows that’s nothing more than mental pablum. I still, however, end up watching it in bed before going to sleep. It seems like a nice way of disconnecting your mind. (Of course, I don’t really end up going to sleep. My wife Michelle does, then I get back up …
AOL has given up the ghost on Netscape, pulling out all resources and letting staff go. At the same time, mozilla.org has announced that they’ve created a new non-profit organization called the Mozilla Foundation. (Links to the old site are aliased to the new site/name, so if you click on the previous two links you’ll …
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I’ve finally started work on tweaking the templates of this blog so that it looks half-way decent. Currently, I’m working on integrating it into my personal Web site and have been playing around with different layouts. At present, the blog index page is simply being called as an SSI in my personal page’s main index. …
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Cogeco blocks incoming port 25 for residential accounts.