If you are reading this, welcome to the Dual PIII-850 in my basement. My setup was successful, and I can now fire my old hosting provider csoft.net. The new server is based on Gentoo, running among other things:
Name server software which offers a $100 bounty on any submitted security exploits that has yet to be claimed. The author apparently emulates a gyrating penis, but being an asshole hardly affects code quality.
Well, the 2004 presidential elections are over. The dust has settled, the towel has been thrown, and aside from a few provisional and absentee ballots, George Bush remains the President of the United States. Though I voted for Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party, I had secretly hoped John Kerry would win the election itself. Though voting for one candidate and desiring the success of another appears contradictory, my reasons will be made clear in the next few days.
All Hallows Eve sweeps upon the world, dread and horror, chaos and fear. Perhaps to many, a commercialized source of confectionaries, a call for costumes and door to door begging. Such banality has no place on Halloween, where costumes transform imagination into manifestations of horrible, strange, macabre, exotic, weird and wonderful.
Well, I’m back from Anime Reactor, and I have to say that this convention has a much higher ratio of cosplayers to regular atendees than any other con I’ve been to. Counting Friday and Saturday, I easily took over 100 pictures, of which at least 80 are of cosplayers. I know I didn’t get all of them, and some were photographed multiple times, but that’s still a huge number for a con this new and relatively small.
Well, I went to Anime Iowa again this year, held almost an entire month after the usual date. It was three days of craziness, lack of sleep, and anime overload, but I enjoyed it anyway. Be sure to read my writeup of the whole shebang. I took more pictures this year, thanks to my ability to forsee the future and bring two extra sets of batteries I never had to use.