- It definitely seems to be a slow-news Sunday. The geeks are excited about some Mars probe, and that’s all well and good, but I can’t work myself up over more pictures of Mars at this point. I dunno. I guess I’m still bitter that my flying car hasn’t arrived yet. [some guy]
- Bacteria in food sickens millions and so far nobody’s died from BSE in the US. So why don’t people worry more about chickens that are dragged through a soup of chicken poop after slaughter or that cows carrying E. Coli that are ground up into hamburger? Well, I guess us humans are just bad at assessing relative risks. Besides, thinking about the chicken thing is just ucky. [press-patch]
- In other news, I received notice yesterday that the US Patent and Trademark Office has approved our registration of Better Nerds™ as a trademark and will be publishing it. If nobody objects saying that they’ve used the mark before us, I’ll be able to use that ® symbol pretty soon. That’s kinda exciting. At least for me.
- In site news, I killed off the last 10 referrers list after 22 months of having it sitting over there on the right. I got tired of needing to continually modify my scripts to keep the referer-spammers out of there, and screwed up the permissions on the file that held the information while doing some site-work earlier in the week, so it was just easier to kill it off for now.
On the home front, I got the kitchen unpacked yesterday. Well, all except for a steamer and a few other items in the last box, on which I just ran out of steam (pun not really intended). The plan today is to finally get the stereo set up (music has been coming out of my computer and boom box) and to clean out the pile of empty cardboard boxes that are sitting on my kitchen floor. But I was out at Manning’s last night, and am feeling kind of lazy today, so those plans might prove to be overly ambitious.