Why? Why not?

Well, at work on another eve… Hope to be able to leave early today. Regardless, today has been declared a long lunch day by me.

Well, it’s Christmas Eve again, and I’m at work. Lucky me. Well, it should give me a chance to catch up on some stuff at work. I’ve also found some good tutorials on cleaning up bodgy cel-shaded images, so hopefully I should be able to put out some nice new wallpapers soon.

I’ll be updating the ‘About’ page after Christmas with photos of me, Trang, friends, well-wishers, electronic gear, and miscellaneous pieces of funkiness.

Wow. Thanks Memepool for leading me to The Internet Archive. This site has an archive of pre-1964 governmental and educational movies, including such gems as:

All Out for Victory??ca. 1943
Producer: Unknown
Sponsor: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Contributions of handicapped and disabled workers to World War II industrial production.

Always Tomorrow (Part I)??1941
Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: Coca-Cola Company
Dramatized history of the Coca-Cola company and some of the people who participated in its origin and growth. Made in the style of a feature film.

America Goes Over (Part I)??1918
Producer: U.S. Army, Signal Corps
Sponsor: U.S. Army, Signal Corps
Government-produced historical record of major World War I battles.

and the most interesting sounding one in the A’s:

About Fallout (1963)??1963
Producer: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense, Office of Civil Defense
Optimistic vision of fallout and civil defense countermeasures.

Damn, I can’t wait to get broadband again (the movies are all 200-500Mb MPEG-2 files).

Heh, going back through the archives, it only took me a year and a quarter to get my shit together enough to move webhosts. Alright!

OK. I’ve actually registered this domain name now, so chances are good people other than me might be seeing this soon. Hooray!

I am such an idiot.

A great quote from a great article (The Progressive):

From a Vietnam veteran to the author:
“I had to come to some understanding of patriotism the hard way. It’s not about symbols and flags and the anthem–those things are the death of critical thinking. It’s about our responsibility to do something to make our country better.”

Apparently, according to this article, Enid Blyton’s books have been ‘updated’ and republished. ‘Updating’ in this case means changing all of the golliwogs to teddy bears, and removing all references to capital punishment. A classic quote:

But Rosemary Johnston, of the University of Technology, Sydney, said the works needed to be updated to reflect current values.

Perhaps, then, we should update The Tempest, removing Caliban and replacing him with a member of Al-Qaeda would be appropriate. And don’t forget Othello. Better replace him with a non-Black, non-Muslim character.
And then, in the final touch to updating works for our times, we can do a search-and-replace on ‘Mein Kampf’; replace ‘Jew’ with ‘Illegal Immigrant’.

Bah.

Well, here we are on inocuo.org. Just uploading stuff and getting kinks from freeservers ironed out. The site will be getting a minor facelift, but I like the current setup too much to change it just yet.

Looks like freeservers isn’t allowing FTP access any more. Time to test it out…
Testing…

It wasn’t, and they suck. So here’s my first post at inocuo.org!
Yay!

I almost forgot to post this…

It’s my birthday!

I bought myself a birthday present: a FFVIII necklace. Be here in a few weeks.