Well, I guess Matt has let the cat out of the bag — the newest member of the Queso network will be the MetaFilter server (and all the sites that come along for the ride). Now, it’ll be that much harder to resist my demonic urges to slowly manipulate the backend code to quietly install my minions in positions of influence and importance…

UPDATE: the server arrived and is now back up and running. Between my pictures (alas, a film camera) and Anil’s screen captures from my webcam, there’ll be a picture show soon enough. In the mean time, enjoy, everyone…

In the last two weeks, I’ve dealt with no less than five children who were the victims of sexual abuse — a twelve year-old, an eleven year-old, a ten year-old, and two three month-olds. After all that, it’s much easier for me to look at policies that require sex offenders to identify themselves publicly in a much more sympathetic light.

Regarding yesterday’s mention of the ass who tried to extinguish the Eternal Flame (pun intended), Alex Griessmann reminded me that a group of drunk Mexican soccer fans once succeeded where this guy failed. Undoubtedly, a proud moment in those guys’ lives…

Windows 2000 Magazine has an article pointing out the known issues with the Win2K service pack 2 — it seems that they’re pretty minor, and in my experience so far, the service pack is well-worth the installation.

One fix not included in the service pack is a potentially-exploitable memory leak in the Windows 2000 domain controller code. If you’re running Active Directory servers, Microsoft recommends that you install this hotfix lest crackers have the ability to bring your servers down.

Wanna know how big a geek I am? Today, I was surfing around, came across an atomic radio clock receiver, and began salivating. How cool would it be to have an atomic clock in your very own home? (Wait a second — I just realized that my GPS receiver does the same thing, and I already own it. Now, if I can figure out a way to get it to pick up satellites in this concrete jungle…)