Blog of the Day is Friday Fishwrap:

I don't know why these made me laugh so hard.. I think it was the possum.

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Well, it's happened: Hard disks have broken through the historically significant* $2/GB barrier. The drive in question is a 120GB Maxtor, now retailing for $219. Last week it was $249; two weeks ago it was $269. That's pretty rapid deflation even for a product that's seen price per unit fall by a factor of 5000 since 1990.

So the only question is: How many? The sooner I get rid of the rest of those poxy Deathstars the better.

*I just made that up.

Update: The same supplier has Opteron processors and motherboards. A bit pricy for the home user, but dirt cheap if you need a 64-bit dual-processor server.

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Dire as it was, Deathstalker and the Complete Lack of Plot was only slightly more boring than Harry Potter and the Extremely Slow-Moving Story, which somehow managed to score a 7.3 on IMDB. Now there's a movie that could do with a MiSTing. If you should feel the urge to watch either one, a few minutes of The Princess Bride is the recommended treatment.

May cause excessive quotations. Do not operate machinery if effected.

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Bunny With Things On His Head of the Day is Oolong.

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No, me neither. But Gnat seems to like it.

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Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell is one bad movie. Even with Mike and the robots it was barely watchable. Deathstalker 2 wasn't nearly as bad, though that was at least partly due to having Monique Gabrielle wandering around wearing not very much at all. A quick glance at IMDB shows Deathstalker 2 with a rating of 4.1 against Deathstalker and the Script from Hell at 2.0. Looks like 2 was the best of the bunch, in fact.

Godzilla vs. Megalon doesn't seem to be a whole lot better. Maybe I need to buy some popcorn to enjoy MST3K properly. Mmm, popcorn...

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Another grey and rainy day for Sydney, but it's expected to clear up by Sunday. Which would be nice.

Just in case it does rain all weekend, I went out and bought Buffy seasons 5 and 6, Futurama season 2, and Babylon 5 season 1 on DVD. (Grace Bros is having a sale on DVD box sets, hence the sudden splurge.) It looks like I've already watched most of Futurama Season 2, but at least now I have a nice high-quality version which I actually paid for.

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Those struggling to distinguish the small alpine country in Europe from Australia were dealt a blow when a kangaroo was hit by a car and killed in central Austria.

A police officer in Steyr reached by phone said that coming across a kangaroo - dead or alive - was "extremely uncommon around here."

(source: Yahoo News via The Wall Street Journal)

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Episode 6 was sadly the last of Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu Deluxe. I think there's a short special around somewhere, though. I'll have to see if I can dig it up.

And this quiz tells me I'm Hale, which is no great surprise.

You are Hale! You are a gamer and a very
sweet person, but your friends, family, and
your life are constantly causing you to stress
out. Hang in there, things will get better!

Which Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu character are you?

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Frank J. over at IMAO discusses feminine hygiene and notes that any dead bloggers should redirect all their traffic to him. If I die, Frank, I'll make sure I do that.

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Blog of the Day is Time For Your Meds!:

Cameron Diaz performed my surgery. Well, at least after I got the IV of Versed, she did. And she did it topless, folks. It was quite a show. Everything went well (how could it not?), but it was not without mishaps.

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Entry 1:

Hello, I must be going,
I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going.
I'm glad I came, but just the same I must be going.

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Comic of the Day is Under the Lemon Tree by Ralph E. Hayes, Jr. I'd really advise that you start from the beginning.

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Buffy Season 6 and Futurama Season 2 are out on DVD!

Also, yesterday marked one month of blogging. At least three people have read at least part of my blog, so clearly it's not all in vain.

I really do have work to do, and so I must be going.

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Rain, rain,
Rain, rain won't you help me
You know this day, isn't going to last for long;

Rain, rain,
Rain, rain won't you guide me
These arms, these legs, propel them to another day.

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Another episode of Futurama an episode of MST3K (Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell), an episode of Buffy (season 7, episode 21, the final semi-final as it were) and the Azumanga Daioh movie have joined Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu Deluxe episode 6 on my hard drive. All in all a good night's downloading. Some day soon I may have the opportunity to watch them. Now stop bothering me, I have work to do.

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Jungle wa Itsumo Hale nochi Guu Deluxe Episode 6 is available now on BitTorrent. Which means that by tomorrow it will be on Kazaa, and by the weekend it will be everywhere.

Meanwhile, why not waddle on over to AnimeSuki for this and a huge amount of other anime goodness.

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Song of the Day is Everything You Know Is Wrong by Weird Al Yankovic:

Everything you know is wrong
Black is white, up is down and short is long
And everything you thought was just so
Important doesn't matter

Everything you know is wrong
Just forget the words and sing along
All you need to understand is
Everything you know is wrong

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Blog of the Day is Gweilo Diaries:

Today we've got a possible North Korean plot, Chinese underwear soup and lots of gratutitous breasts.

gra·tu·i·tous Pronunciation Key (gr-t-ts, -ty-) adj.

1. Given or granted without return or recompense; unearned.
2. Given or received without cost or obligation; free.
3. Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified: gratuitous criticism.

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Since I rejoined the workforce I've been thinking about upgrading my PCs. I have two main computers (plus a notebook), and they're both over two years old. They're 1.2GHz Athlons; one running WinXP (which is a whole 'nother story in itself) and the other running Linux (Red Hat 8).

Now, my rule of thumb is to upgrade a computer (assuming I have the money) when the replacement is (a) cheaper than the original and (b) at least twice as good. So, I should be looking for a 2.4GHz Athlon, right?

Small problem: there isn't one. There's a confusing gaggle of performance ratings, and if you're trying to work out how fast a particular Athlon might be, you have to know that the XP2400+ has a 266MHz bus and 256KB of level 2 cache, the XP2500+ has a 333MHz bus and 512KB of cache, but runs at a lower clock speed, and the XP2600+ apparently comes in two flavours, with a 256KB cache and either a 266MHz bus and a higher clockspeed or a 333MHz bus and a lower clockspeed. The XP2800+ has historically come in three different flavours, so very much caveat emptor.

Then there's Intel. I'd rather avoid Intel, not because their products are bad, but because they are evil. Not as evil as Microsoft, not nearly as evil as the RIAA, but clearly on the darkish-grey side of the line. But the Celerons are pretty cheap, and run at 2.4GHz, so...

Turns out Celerons pretty much suck. I'm not sure why, exactly; they have the P4 architecture, and the 400MHz Celeron bus is as fast as that found on any Athlon. Presumably part of the problem is the 128KB cache, but they should be good for something. But I benchmarked a 1.7GHz Celeron, and my tests showed that it was no faster, and often significantly slower, than my existing 1.2GHz Athlons. So, no joy there.

Finally, there's the P4. The shiny new 800MHz bus version is out. That huge bandwidth increase seems to offer only trivial performance increases, though, on the order of 3 to 5 per cent. On the other hand, they all have hyperthreading enabled, so it's sort of like getting a dual-processor system for free. On the other other hand, most of the time I'm only running one thing anyway.

So, what I've decided to do is blow all my money on beer and skittles. Or, since I don't drink beer or play skittles, keep it.

Except for the iPod. Still gotta getta iPod.

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Looks like someone has found the St. Claire Safety Sign Builder.

Yup, looks like.

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Water falling from the ceiling is a pretty good indicator of rain, isn't it?

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Windows XP is reinstalled. SP1 is reinstalled. Mozilla is back, complete with the mandatory Orbit 3+1 theme. Orbit makes Mozilla look so much snazzier, it's like a whole new snazzier version of Mozilla. All my email, bookmarks, address books and such are where they should be.

More importantly, my incomplete Kazaa downloads are restored in all their glorious incompleteness and busy crawling their way towards completion again.

Hooray!

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Blog of the Day (Hey, didn't we just do one of those? Yes, but it's after midnight now, and anyway, I like this one. Yeah, well, okay, but don't blame me if we all die horribly. How the heck could that happen? We're just recommending a Blog of the Day! Yeah, I'm just saying... Oh, are we still on?)

As I was saying, Blog of the Day is Flooded Lizard Kingdom presented by Princess Piewacket:

Me: "Mom, when you requested a decorative rain gutter spout that looks like a stone gargoyle for your suburban Houston house, you said you wanted the plain gargoyle or the dragon gargoyle. But you also said you wanted the long kind, and those only come in plain gargoyle and stupid-looking squirrels on a rock. So I got two plain gargoyles, figuring that then they would be twins and have a psychic link that they could use to communicate if invaders enter the yard."

Mom: "Good thinking."

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Watch that Maxtor format.
Format format format
Hard drive!

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