Michael Cook’s Place

I was busy this weekend. I downloaded and beat Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One. I’ll write the review a little later.
The other thing I’ve been doing is writing a little driver program in Java to control the PicoLCD that I bought. You can read about it and download the [...]

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Things have finally died out in my SPAM reply chain. It took two days or more. There have been a few fun updates. When we last left, Steve had sent an email, marked important, that he didn’t understand anything. A few other people responded that they were in the same boat, or more on the [...]

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So what happens when someone starts sending SPAM from your domain? Well it seems that this weekend someone started doing just that, maybe. There were at least using my mail server. It’s been a little annoying to get a bunch of bounce messages, but I got something interesting out of all this. (ed: continued later [...]

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I thought up two word definitions last night. Thought someone might enjoy them.

Oxymoron
A blond wearing pimple cream
Moment of Insight
When you are hit by a hybrid car

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OK, I think I should start documenting some of my random weird ideas. I had that idea earlier today, but then I ran across a webcomic tonight that is absolutely hilarious. It’s called XKCD. I can sympathize with how he started, I’ve been thinking of putting up some of my random doodles. As I read [...]

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