Moving On

Since Amanda left me back in July, I’ve been given all sorts of advice (and ignored pretty much all of it). But one thing a lot of people have told me is that I nee ...

Leaving Typepad for a Wordpress Future

This is my last post using the Typepad blog publishing platform.There have been over 1470 posts on Vision Thing going back to December of 2003. That month, I moved all m ...

Simple PHP updating counter on a Bash shell

If you’re running a php script on a shell and want to know what it’s doing, at which... ...

Vista SP1 loses MS support and thus DC su ...

As of July 12, 2011. DC will likely continue to run fine, but one might not obtain support if using Vista SP1. ...

plastic happiness: last week.

Yay, more than a week late! Here’s what I got last week: HftD Sidearm Sideswipe HftD Terradive RTS Perceptor DOTM VC Ironhide HftD toys are now P350/piece, thank ...

Where Everyone Speaks My Language

I arrived in London on November 20th traveling through the English Channel by train. It was dark when I arrived at St. Pancras station in London and very cold. I booked a ...

Google’s Addictive New Word Usage Frequen ...

We’ve known for a while that Google is busy scanning and digitizing millions of books from throughout human history. They’ve even enlisted idle human brainp ...