Rebecca says:

i hope no one thought iwas dead since i suck at being consistent with anything except slacking off and peeing.

Funny Becca :)

Broke my arm

While pitching a chair from the back of a pickup truck I lost my balance and fell backwards. Using my ninja skills I prevented a head injury with my arm and got a Radial Head Fracture for my trouble. I didn’t even know it was broken until about 2 hours later when I started wondering why my arm was still hurting and went looking on the net for answers (after I couldn’t get Jason on the phone).

Typing w/ one hand sucks so tata4now.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office website is *gasp* stateful!

Today I poked around the USPTO website trying to find out what trademarks are out there for ecash/e-cash/e cash. I was cutting and pasting the URL’s to the intresting bits, but then, much to me horror, discovered that the URL’s expired. It’s very hard to collect information about something on the web when your primary source is unlinkable.

Artimage suggested writing a script that will execute the searches needed to find the url I want and then forward the user to the current url. A good idea. I’m now writing webmaster@uspto.gov to find out why they have a broken website.

QuickBlog

Here is a script in python that will allow you to post to your blog using whatever editor you have defined in the EDITOR env var. You have to create a config file first with your login info. Read the top of the file for info on that.

Free State Project: Done before?

I’ve been reading about the Free State Project with interest. One interesting note from their FAQ talking about if the Feds would stop them in their endeavor:

However, these tactics [regulations on the sale of property or tightening voter registration requirements] did not stop left-liberals and socialists from taking over Vermont in a coordinated effort.

Poking around on Google for a few minutes I couldn’t find anything about it… Kibo do you know the answer?