Laurabelle’s Blog

I can't really say much about this that hasn't already been said here. Halfway through the documentary/drama What the #$*! Do We Know!?, the key question shifts from the scientific (How does our knowledge of quantum physics redefine what it means to exist?) to the self-help (How can I use this knowledge of quantum physics to [...]

Wednesday I was bumming around on the Web and read a blog entry by pjm mentioning browser hijacker programs like CoolWebSearch that take over your browser, open pop-ups, change Internet Explorer favorites, add sites to "trusted sites" lists (so that IE will download and install software without asking), and block sites like Lavasoft that offer [...]

Rant alert! I don't know if this happens anywhere else, but at the iSchool there are a lot of people who call webserver logs weblogs, and it bugs the crap out of me. I've explained it to people several times, but they just don't seem to get it. I guess people make this mistake because they don't [...]

I've been thinking more about Ben and Mena, Six Apart, and this licensing scheme, and I've decided that I don't blame them for this turn of events. They started developing Movable Type in their spare bedroom, in their spare time, and as it got more popular, they decided it would be great if they could [...]

According to the Zodiac Personality Test, I'm a Capricorn. It's bullpocky, of course, because none of the possible answers to the questions fit me at all, and besides, I'm a Scorpio.