Mostly Harmless

Really long article about Milliways, that I haven’t had time to read yet:

Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Playable game:

Milliways (Release 15, Serial 880512)

Once upon a time I missed a calculus test because I was playing the Hitchhiker’s Guide game in the school computer lab. It would have been considerate of my fellow classmates to have mentioned the test (or even class) on their way out of the lab, instead of on the way back into the lab. (In my defense I claim that spending every waking minute in a computer lab has worked out pretty well so far.)

WP 2.0.5 -> 2.5

Yeah, that worked.

Akismet spam blocker upgraded with an extra click as well. Awesome.

Now that I’ve installed WPAU there is a chance in hell that I’ll keep WP mostly current (oh, a pun? nah).

Pity I didn’t pick a nicer theme as well. Can’t win ‘em all.

The site manager on this host only has WP version 2.3.2. I think that going the WordPress automatic upgrade plugin route will prove to be much more effective/current.

Things to do at the Kansas City International airport: not much.

Since 1972 the airport as been closed due to weather for a total of about 3 hours. Until today, that is, when it was closed for about 6 hours. It appears that some planes are moving now and my scheduled departure time was less than an hour late — last time I checked. Many flights were cancelled, everything else seems to be delayed. The poor bastards going to Detroit have to wait another 5 hours at least — that flight was scheduled to leave 2 hours before mine, I think.

The weather is clear back to Minneapolis so I’ll avoid that sort of delay. (famous last words?)

The official airport code is MCI, but it is referred to as KCI all over the place, like on the trash cans, posters everywhere, the name of the WiFi network and the big sign outside. The thing is that airport code KCI is the downtown airport. I wonder if they label stuff with MCI just to keep the confusion level up.

I’m in Kansas City (Mo.) for the Kelly-n-Reba Best Friends Forever tour. (not the actual name of the tour, but it could be). It was a kick-ass show despite the numerous walk-through metal detectors (thus nixing the good recording gear). I had a meet and greet pass to see Kelly before the show… for about 15 seconds because of all the talkers before our group, but I got another autograph and picture and wasn’t tackled by security so I’m not on the stalker watch-list yet, so that’s a good thing.

Time to snag some overpriced water for the flight.

I’m at the airport not paying $7.95 for internet access, huzzah!

That $8 will go a long way towards paying fo the whole trip to Boston… Oh wait, it wont.

So I’m going to Boston for a concert on my birthday because some coworkers chipped in for tickets. Which is a nice thought were it not for the fact that a ticket to Boston is about $550, and that doesn’t count lodging once I get there. This sort of “gift” can easily cost $700-$800; or 50,000 frequent flyer miles + $150 for the cheapest hotel in the tri-state area (I assume).

This will give me a chance to use my iPhone for an inflight movie or two, so that’s exciting. I’m going to a hotel with no internet access as well, so this may be my only link to civilization for the next couple of days.

Looks like we’re boarding…

Ok, so I had a moderately large post written up on how magical the keyboard is and how I somehow keep dropping off of Wi-Fi and into EDGE hell, potentially because I have a hidden ssid on my network. But then I meandered off to check e-mail and load a different page in another window and this page reloaded (i.e. blank) when I came back to it.

So that sucked a little.

Time to save a draft.

Also time to go to bed perhaps.

Posted from my iPhone. Word!

Update: So I just realized that my Wi-Fi router isn’t configured to give out DHCP adresses so I had a completely bogus IP address, which explains why the iPhone kept failing over to EDGE. It’s all fine now.