Which FF7 Dude Are You? So, as I take the test, I’m only naturally hoping, in my secret heart, to get Cloud Strife, or perhaps Barret. Do I get either of those? No. Do I get even Sephiroth? No. I, apparently, according to this test, am a fucking Chocobo. Of course, as consolation, I suppose, the badge graphic tells me that I “just wanna have fun, riding the night away.” Well, true enough, but how exactly does that make me a big, yellow bird that isn’t even a main character in the game?

Regarding Boneheaded Roommates and Soap Opera Villains:…and then he actually went out to lunch with this guy! He’s been told so many times that all this guy wants is to have sex with him, and he still just won’t get it. He just won’t believe it. He’s so, so…The word is obtuse.Exactly. That’s him in a nutshell. What on Earth are we gonna do with this faggot?.Well, you could always implant a common-sense chip in his brain. He wouldn’t exactly be the first recipient, once I invent it, but I’d try to hold one aside for him, considering his desperate need.Who do I look like, Stephano Dimera?Well, if you turn your head and squint…Oh, you are so dead when I get home, you know this, right?.Okay, okay: Lexie.Boy, I’ma… actually, I’ll take that.

Urg. That is all I have to say. Six of the folks I voted for won, though, so I guess it’s 80% urg, 20% yay. That’s still a lotta urg.

You know all that stuff I said about fearing that an almost complete lack of media consumption was making me frightfully dull? I was about as wrong about that as I could possibly be. It was actually a complete lack of introspection that was making me dull. Have you any idea how much effort it takes to avoid any self-examination, of any form? Anyway, I’ve decided to make a return to uninhibited, unedited, personal journaling. But I still have one strange inhibition: if I’m going to bitch and moan and know that for some odd reason people will actually read it, it’s damn well going to look fabulous. It may take some time for me to pull off this phoenix act, considering the number of other self-improvement projects in the air right now, but rest assured that it is coming. No deadline date or anything because — well, if you’ve been reading this site long enough to care, you know how well they work.

Which Daria character are you? If you can’t guess what result I got, you are obviously somehow managing to read this site without the benefit of having a head.

What’s your Queer As Folk personality? I am apparently most like Michael Novotny. Having never seen the show, I don’t know if that’s good or bad, thought the quiz results are certainly disturbing (”everybody’s best friend,” etc.).

The Bloggies go live. I’m a very picky voter in these things, almost always clicking through to get a good look at all of the nominees — particularly if I’ve only heard of one or two of them, or none. Very rarely do I simply pick one immediately, and very rarely do I not come to a decision at all. But just what the hell am I supposed to do about this ‘lifetime achievement’ category? Four of the five are linked in my sidebar, all of whom have contributed to my amusement/distraction/edification in multiple ways over quite a period of time. I’ve been staring at it, the penultimate category, with all the others already decided, for almost fifteen minutes now, and I’m seriously starting to consider recusing myself.

AOL filed suit Tuesday for damages stemming from IE/Netscape browser war.”University of Baltimore law professor Bob Lande said ‘They’ve got an excellent chance of success, given that the facts have already been established that Microsoft has broken the law.’ […] A judge would still have the challenge of choosing a remedy that would restore competition to the Internet browser market.”I wonder how they’d assign damages, first off, given that both products were free. And as for ‘restoring competition to the market,’ apparently they think Mozilla is suddenly ready for prime time?

Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Memphis? “Without the slightest regard for the ease and cost-efficiency of the publicity such a stand would bring, the two moral leaders have denounced the art as ‘bad stuff’ and proposed that the words [’Workers of the world, unite.’] be be removed [from the library’s entrance] with a sand blaster.”

Phillips (keeper of the standard) sez deliberately broken, copy-protected CD’s .. aren’t CD’s.

Link Feedback - “I do plan to look at [the data] to see if I can find any patterns and if there are interesting aggregate, non-identifying results…” Hmm.

AOL/Redhat - The Register’s take: “Expensive mergers (and Red Hat would indeed be one, with its $1.6 billion market cap) tend to appeal to the big swinging dicks in corporate planning…”

Until two days ago, I had had two hairstyles in my life. One which I had for 18 years, one I had for two. And now, courtesy of my husband and a pair of electric shears, I have a third. Which is to say, I now have no hair. Or, at least, very little hair. Less hair than I’ve had since I was six months old. Everyone hereabouts thinks it’s fabulous, of course, but I feel strangely in need of unbiased opinions…

AOLTW Wants to buy Red Hat. First reaction: Why? Second reaction: No. AOL has a history of software acquisitions that don’t go anywhere or accomplish anything, other than gutting the victims of talent. (No, not raiding the victims for talent, which would at least make some sense…) Up until now, I believed that they simply had too much money. But I’m beginning to wonder if perhaps they just want something to wave at competitors and investors for a time, knowing full well that eventually the new child company will wither and die in AOL’s huge, unwieldy arms? If so, I wish they would at least stop death-marching companies I like.

It’s beginning to seem like every time I finally become frustrated enough with Blogger to contemplate moving — or even actually begin to move — to a different CMS, even despite broken links and loss of remote updating and all of that, things suddenly and mysteriously improve. Just an observation.

Mindful of the fact that Blogger will have problems again in the future, this time I went ahead and finished the transition. And so, after two solid days of cut-and-pasting and search-and-replacing, I am no longer Blogger-powered.

You know that feeling when you were a kid and you had a fresh new notebook of clean white paper and a nice, expensive pen all laid out in front of you? That’s where I’m at right now.

According to Which Drink Are You, I am a mojito, which has its origins in Cuba and consists of rum, lemon juice, and mint. Blech. I was hoping for some sort of shot, hopefully involving Goldschlager, but I guess I really haven’t that forceful a personality. I suppose in this case, you aren’t what you drink.

(Not that I ever purchase alcohol, or have others do so on my behalf, as both of those actions are illegal in Ahmurrica and are therefore very, very wrong.)

Hey, you know all those dumb internet personality quizzes whose results are at best mildly amusing but are ultimately completely meaningless? Well, surprisingly, this ain’t one of them: What pre-1985 video game character are you? “I am an Asteroid. I am a drifter. I go where life leads, which makes me usually a very calm and content sort of person. That or thoroughly apathetic. Usually I keep on doing whatever I’m doing, and it takes something special to make me change my mind.”