I wanted to mention this the other day but forgot - Jason and I were debugging some code at work earlier this week, trying to figure out why something wasn't showing up in a php script. After some discussion, I offered the advice "Oh, you just need to replace that with ampersand pound sign three six semicolon." And I was dead serious. And it was true. And it makes me feel like an überdork, swearing in longhand.

Scene:
Sam: Percent sign, Ampersand, Dollar Sign.
Max: And colon, semi-colon too!
Telekinetic Guy: What are you two F@*#&*g doing?
Sam: Swearing in longhand asterisk mouth

Last night was St. Patty's Day -- other than prefixing people's last names with O' and trying out my horrible Irish accent (one person mistook it for 'pirate'), I didn't do too much. Drank Guinness with Andrea. Watched Ray (pretty good). Ate deep-friend oysters in front of a hungry James. James, we need to party hardy this week while the misses is gone!

Speaking of Ray, that movie taught me that the next time I encounter conflict with another human being, I should start making a song about it, and the other person will join me in singing. That's much better than fighting. As such, I think I'll start carrying my guitar around...

This is the third year I've volunteered my time and hosting towards the anti-war effort - this year is no different, and tomorrow I'll be marching to demonstrate that war is still a bad idea. I'd like to note that I'm not responsible for the homepage design. I have a lot of mixed feelings about it all at this point, but the feeling that seems strongest is that we're not over there for the right reasons, and our folks over there shouldn't be there. I'll leave it at that.

A roof-roof-roof to Garhan for adding blogginess to his site. That's right, I said the b-word. Did you get the comment I left via html arguments?

I still need to figure out a good shorthand website name. It needs to be catchy and short. Here are a few others I thought of:

capnmike.net
mikebutt.com
smileybutt.com (might get some unwanted traffic, though)

...oh my God, I just discovered that pir8jokes.com is available. I was after piratejokes.com for the longest time but it got squatted on... I'm so buying this right now. I'm still taking ideas, though! ScallopsOfDoom.com was good, but kind of long.

Preoccupied now... bye...