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I never press the Caps Lock or Insert keys on my keyboard intentionally.

Years ago, before my Touchstream, I did this trick to remove them. Now that I’m back to an awful standard keyboard, I Googled it up again.

Remapping keys in Windows.

My Scancode Map is “00000000 00000000 03000000 00003A00 000052E0 00000000”, which disables the Caps Lock and Insert keys.

Check out the, er, “champion” in the 10k coverage!

UPDATE 11:50am: Oh, yeah, I’m also in one of the pictures showing me judging the Round 2 feature match. That’s not as interesting, though.

Warning: Link for people who like logic and complicated rules only. A familiarity with Magic is probably preferable.
Meet a Melvin.

Now this is just cool.

Interesting posts on the benefits of functional programming (in the real world, no less): Can Your Programming Language Do This? by Joel Spolsky, which linked to Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns by Steve Yegge. I found them (especially the latter) very interesting.

Jessi sent me an article on some of the issues with public education and how involved parents can/should be.

I’ve been trying to try out a new game called Second Life. I finally managed to run it today after taking one of ‘s somewhat-older video cards to use instead of my wonderful-for-CAD-but-doesn’t-work-on-games FireGL E1. The game is basically like an old-fashioned MUX, but a 3D MMORPG world. The basic account is free. You interact with others in this virtual community, in a world made up primarily of what its participants created. Participants create objects and script them to do things. It seems pretty neat. My name there is Peter Newchurch if anyone else wants to jump on as well. (And apparently I may get some bonus if you sign on using my referrer link.)

The Perils of JavaSchools, by Joel Spolsky

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” — Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

And what the “big lie” is today…

Google recently released yet another feature, this one allowing you to kiboze Usenet.

I don’t know whether to be thrilled or scared.