Steel White Table

How To Cost Microsoft Money:
Microsoft has a form on their website that you can fill out to get a copy of Windows XP SP2 on CD at no charge (with free shipping by Purolator).
I ordered one.
Then, at the Order Confirmation screen, I clicked Back, then Refresh, then Retry (since the form had to be posted [...]

The late Douglas Adams explains why “42″ is the meaning of life:
I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought ‘42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.

FINAL UPDATE (Oct. 3/04): I recorded a show, one full hour, live with no edits, and what a mess. There were some real golden moments, which I may post later for a laugh, but like I said, it ain’t easy. Jenny and I managed to get through the hour by playing 4 or 5 [...]

The illustration above was taped to the mirror in the males’ bathroom of my company’s Toronto office.
They could use the handwashing alarm.

Tags: etiquette

Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Rating: (8/10)
This is a science-fiction novel about aliens trying “to discover why God has behaved as he has and to determine his methods”. Due to cataclysmic events occurring simultaneously on different planets and the fact that life exists, the aliens think the universe was designed. When they [...]

Yellow Subroutine:
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man, who played with ‘C’.
And he coded his whole life
On a stack of Function Keys.
So we traced to his data schemes,
Til we found a ‘C’ routine..
And we lived beneath the SAVES,
In our yellow Sub-Routine…
WE ALL live in A YELLOW SUB-ROUTINE,
YELLOW SUB-ROUTINE, YELLOW SUB-ROUTINE …. (ETC)
Lots [...]

Make a starship enterprise out of a floppy.

A 45 MB Quicktime movie showing a guy ripping and scanning his records (you know - those 12 inch in diameter, thin, black, plastic circles that existed before compact discs) with a great soundtrack. For each of his 609 albums he:

Scanned the front and back jacket.
Scanned each side of the record itself.
Ripped every song [...]

CBC Radio’s As It Happens has been THE blog of the radio for more than 30 years. I don’t get an opportunity to listen to it often anymore, but when I do they always have an interesting story to tell. A few nights ago they had a report about a skeleton of a [...]

Browser Security Test:
Scanit’s Browser Security Test automatically checks your browser for various security problems. When the test is finished you get a complete report explaining the discovered vulnerabilities, their impact and how to eliminate them.
My Firefox browser is okay according to their tests.

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS), “the world’s most authoritative review of literature, scholarship and the visual and performing arts”, is giving out free issues.
I used to read this all the time when my Dad subscribed to it.

Episode III trailer:
I wanted to be the first to produce a trailer for Episode III. I also wanted it to show most of the things that I expect to happen in that movie. Of course, since we don’t really know that yet, you could say that this is my interpretation of it. In a way [...]

On average, how often do you visit Steel White Table? (Excluding weekends if you want to.)

Several times throughout the day.

1 - 3 times a day.

1 - 3 times a week.

1 - 3 times a month.

Rarely.

Only when the “good” lord commands it.

First and probably last visit to Steel White Table.

Free polls from Pollhost.com

(Thanks, Ryan)

This is sad: Book Burning: A True Christian® Tradition:
The truth is, burning a book is one of the most loving things a Christian could do for a person they really care about.
I don’t know what’s funnier: their “truth”, or their use of the registered trademark symbol.
This is the fourth time I’ve posted items from this [...]