kasia in a nutshell

A new SUV named 'patriot'. No message there!

Posted by kasia at 10:32 PM | Permalink

Then this one truly represents and defines the spirit of Craigslist. Inspiring.

Posted by kasia at 08:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Either too many of my friends have recently become avid yahoo game addicts or some recent yahoo messenger server update screwed up the icons on mac os...

PS: yep, still alive, just busy!

Posted by kasia at 10:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Works quite well, in fact maybe a little too well for someone who was previously unused to any built-in filtering. On that thought, sorry to a couple people whose comments were sitting in my "possible spam, approve me dammit" queue. I completely forgot about it!

Posted by kasia at 07:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

.. especially a small one, should be forced to sit in a small room for an extended amount of hours smelling something they really dislike. Like, say, microwaved fish.

gah..

Posted by kasia at 10:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

I believe I'm a pretty good programmer. I can do Java, perl, C.. and so on. You know, all the basics. Heck, I can even write semi-decent HTML and JavaScript, but make me do css and well, er, design things? Forget it.

I cannot do a decent web site design to save my life.. so why bother? I've given up on trying to have an original-design. Everyone else just copies everybody, so why not.

Downsides: Lack of originality, no feeling of accomplishment, diminished sense of self-wroth.
Upsides: Less work, site doesn't look like ass.

Canned styles win.

Posted by kasia at 10:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Edit: After examining every detail of the certificate closely, it's the Entrust one that expired (see second image below), but hitting 'show detail' button shows you the screen below.. so still looks stupid.

Edit two: What threw me, really, is that firefox showed no warning for the same site, so the real wtf here is firefox!

Posted by kasia at 05:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

A while ago I had to write a script to automatically close my entries to trackback due to spam. Back then, it was worth the bother since I used to recieve a fair amount of legitimate trackbacks on regular basis.

That was then.

I haven't seen a real trackback ping since August. Granted, I haven't been blogging anything of note, or really, much at all, but still. My entries get auto-closed to trackback after 15 days. That used to keep spammers at bay. Used to being the operative word, it appears any entry older than a couple days is now a target for spammers.

So is trackback effectively dead? Gone the way of the dodo and frames? I suppose it's time to kill it completely (at least on this blog) say a few words of grattitude for its usefulness for as long as it has lasted and thank spammers for making yet another communication tool effectively useless.

[enter solemn melody of your choice]

Posted by kasia at 09:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)