The T-Files


Fri, 30 Dec 2005

Hill's Feline Prescription Diet l/d

For the Nutritional Management of Cats with Liver Disorders.

Your cat's liver is its largest internal organ and is responsible for ridding the body of toxins and many other functions. Prescription Diet l/d was created by veterinarians specifically for the nutritional management of cats with liver disorders that cause reduced liver function. It is highly digestible, with high quality protein sources that reduce the liver workload and aid in the regeneration of liver tissue. Added antioxidant nutrients like Vitamin E, Vitamin C and selenium, help combat oxidative stress. It is also ideally formulated to deal with cats with fatty liver disease (Hepatic Lipidosis). The nutritional formulation of Prescription Diet l/d may also be useful for pets with a variety of conditions.

Tue, 27 Dec 2005

Look Mom, I ate the whole thing

Company Year End Party, 10 courses.

Also, check out this video on how to eat sushi.

Fri, 23 Dec 2005

Dan Brown: Digital Fortress

  1. The DaVinci Code
  2. Angels & Demons
  3. Deception Point
  4. Digital Fortress

Having now read Brown's complete opus, this is the order I would come up with if asked to rate the books by how good I think they are. That also seems to be the general consensus, at least according to Amazon sales ranks, which are in the same order.

The list is also almost (but not quite) a reverse chronology of the novel's release dates, which could indicate that Brown is getting better at what is doing from book to book.

On the other hand, the list also reflects the order in which I read them, so maybe I am getting bored here. In fact, it seems like the main building blocks for characters and plot are always the same: You have a male and a female protagonist who are somewhat romantically involved and share sheets in the final chapter, a powerful secret society, and a villain who pulls strings in the background, who sends an outlandish assassin after our heroes, and whose identity is finally revealed to be the supposedly trust-worthy friend in high places, as opposed to the obvious malefactor that is presented earlier.

Tue, 20 Dec 2005

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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Human science is an uncertain guess.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Sat, 17 Dec 2005

Banners to inspire the Christmas shopper

Podsafe for Peace - If Every Day Were Christmas

I just bought my first piece of online music, but I cannot feel too bad about it as all proceeds go to UNICEF and nothing to the RIAA.

Wed, 14 Dec 2005

Me wearing other people's glasses

Part six: Ye Li-Hua

Sun, 11 Dec 2005

Deflation, Part 2

There goes the yoga ball.

Is Kitty trying to ridicule us, considering that it happened during the night right after we cut her nails?

Sun, 04 Dec 2005

Stressed out cat

During the week that we spent travelling in China, Kitty stayed at a friend's house in Chiba, where she also met (and almost ate) the resident hamster. That was probably a little too much excitement for her: A blood screening yesterday in preparation for her sterilisation operation showed up highly elevated enzyme readings that usually indicate stress (or liver malfunction, but from what we can tell Kitty has no drinking problem).

Sat, 03 Dec 2005

cat /dev/cookie

JS/UIX is a UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a virtual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management, and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.

Amazing, even includes a simple (but working) vi-clone. Must be fun to try to port small UN*X command line applications (like fortune), especially with the help of a C-to-JS-compiler, if there is such a tool (a quick googling was fruitless).

Another stab at the same idea is JUnix. JS/UIX seems to be more complete (I could be wrong here, the JUnix documentation is written in Russian), but JUnix provides /dev/cookie which is certainly a good thing to have. 4KB could be enough to store a simple ~/.profile.