Gordaen’s Blog

I don’t know what it is, but this Skullcrusher Mountain Flash Video is hilarious. The song is by Jonathan Coulton, telling the tale of an evil mastermind and his strange ideas about love. Check it out.

I noticed a few headlines lately about Apple receiving flak, particularly from Mozilla, for slipping an install of Safari onto people’s Windows machines. Personally, I find that Apple products work well with Apple products, but they rarely work as well on Windows. I wanted to give Safari a quick try on my laptop, which can boot into Windows XP for that once a month that it is needed, so I thought this would be a good chance to test out what this “sneaky Safari install” is all about and give Safari for Windows an initial spin. Continue reading ‘Sneaky Safari Install’

Terrible art? Yes! Terrible humor? Yes! Yet, it is somehow still entertaining. This is a (digital) scrap I threw together tonight. I really should have done a worthwhile painting or something else with my time, but I felt like playing with the tablet. It’s not yet late enough for good creativity to set in.

And yes, those are paper clips for limbs.

After continuous frustration with Dreamhost, I’ve moved to Slicehost. Dreamhost has been extremely slow about confirming the registration transfer, but I modified the DNS records to try to force the sites to be served from my new location. Above is a chart showing the response time at gordaen.com for a week; can you guess at which point the site started to be served from Slicehost? Continue reading ‘Moved To Slicehost’

Does anyone know what this is supposed to mean? It’s an advertisement from Newegg, a company that I usually praise, but it does not make any sense to me. This did not strike me as typical Newegg quality, so I looked into it a little more. The Seagate press release has this to say: Continue reading ‘Seagate FreeAgent: Your On’