Snakes in the garden.
Afraid of a lot of snakes,
Ophidiophobe?

My dad was in and out of prison until I was twenty-two.
Unsurprisingly, his mind was always in the loo.
He was the prison nurse,
Which made things all the worse.
Many windshields he went through.

Problem Solving is
An intense mental workout
Going all day long

It looks like millions of people can check off one more thing on their "Things to do in life" list: survive a hurricane.

Last week, I go to The Escapist and see that I have a message. Their publisher's club had a special deal that you could get a Hawken closed beta key. Because this is one of the games I was sort of interested in, I jumped on it.

I had a desire a long time ago: I wanted to back up playlists from my Winamp music library. So I wrote a small Python script to back things up. It seems like that's the only remotely popular 'hit' on my blog, if I'm reading my analytics right.

The vacuum sweeper:
It sucks when it doesn't work,
And sucks when it does.