The Arcane and the Obvious

I have terrible guilt for not communicating better with my friends.

And that produces anxiety, which makes me procrastinate.

Which makes me feel more guilty.

It's a stupid cycle, but one with which I have dealt (albeit poorly) most of my life.

Any suggestions for getting out of that loop would be appreciated.

In the mean time, please forgive me. And do not think for a moment that I'm not grateful for your friendship!

I love it. Apparently "hjälm" is the Swedish word for "helmet."

I think it might sound something like "hyelm," using english phonetics.

While I have never executed, I have spent a great deal of time trying to come up with a more book-like interface to a web journal.

It just occurred to me that it would be funny (amusing to me, at least) to change the style sheet on the archives such that older pages would discolor, like the way acids in some papers cause the paper to yellow and disintegrate.

I would not want the pages to become illegible, but it occurs to me it might be a sort of visual queue that would indicate the relative age of a post.

Yeah, that or the actual date associated with the post? ;)

I was typing an SMS message in slang to my elite hacker friend (he has built muliple boxen, now. I think that qualifies.)

I intentionally typed "teh." My Treo was having none of it. It correctly corrected the text to read "the."

But… that's not as *funny*.

Speaking of the elite, my friend Tony gave me this one.

It's called "The Game." There is one rule. If you think of "The Game," you lose.

That's it.

You cannot win. If you think about winning, you're thinking about "The Game," …so you lose.

I lost repeatly while writing this post.

Worst game ever?

Nope. It brings joy and mirth whenever you hear a friend randomly say "Dammit! I just lost!"

Of course, that will cause you to lose... but isn't it worth it to share the pain love?

Yeah... I installed some web statistic tracking tools for this blog.

I found out this morning that I was getting some hits for an entry almost two years old on Windows themes for IBM ThinkPad laptops.

So while I could have been responsible and eaten lunch, instead I researched a new location of said themes and updated my links. Of course, IBM doesn't own the ThinkPad trademark anymore, and Lenovo doesn't seem to have the same sort of community focus. I couldn't find anything similar there. As a side note, though, their driver support for older models is *excellent.*

After updating the journal entry, I downloaded a theme, installed it and tweaked it. I then went to another site for a desktop wallpaper.

When I looked at the clock, I had 5 minutes left out of my 30 minute lunch.

Whoops!