Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Ants cried Uncle

Dave wrote about his ant problem today. I had my own ant problem a few weeks ago, when it first started raining. This being my first fall in California, I didn't realize this was a common problem in the area.

They were all over the walls, bannister, door frame... they loved to travel alone the corners of walls. I figured I must have left an apple core or something sweet laying on the floor somewhere to have attracted all those little guys. I'm happy to find out it wasn't my fault. I was told it wasn't my fault but I still wasn't sure.

The building manager called the chemical weapons experts in to give them a good butt kicking. By the next day they were all very... still.

Lookie here…

Travel.state.gov: Possible Loss of U.S. Citizenship and Foreign Military Service (via rc3.org)

Ahem. So who wants to rebutt that it is, or should I say, was possible to avoid taxation by renouncing one's citizenship?

A trade

via Scripting News...

Bara Vaida : "Howard Schmidt, Microsoft's chief security officer, is expected to leave within the next month to join the Bush administration and work with White House cyber-security adviser Richard Clarke, according to sources in the computer-security industry."

With my conspiracy hat on... here's how this transaction would be announced in the world of pro hockey:

"The Redmond Microsofts have traded CSO Howard Schmidt to the Washington Republicans for a 1st round draft pick in the 2002 draft and future considerations."

IT has landed!

TIME.com: Reinventing the Wheel

Looks and is described pretty much like I expected. But that's a great thing because I had pretty high expectations!

US troops patrolling Canadian border

CNN.com: Guard troops ordered to Canadian border

So much for the world's longest unprotected border. Sigh. It was fun while it lasted.

There was an article by the Toronto Sun's Peter Worthington a couple days ago that said Canada benefits from being so lenient when it comes to immigration laws and the other policies which have made it easy for terrorists to camp out in Canada. He said that terrorists would be insane to attack a country that's treated them so well! I tried but I couldn't find an archive link for the story. I hope I got the gist of it right.

Inuit man finally using real name

Ananova: Inuit man officially allowed to use traditional one-word name

Permits req’d

Here's a shocker...

EBits - CANOE Money: "There's evidence that Canada may not be the most bureaucratic country in the world in which to start a new business."

You have to know this shocks Canadians if they'd go to the trouble to report it.

QuickTime is 10

Happy 10th anniversary QuickTime!

MacCentral:QuickTime anniversary celebration this weekend

There are few thing I would rather be doing day to day than coding with WebObjects. But to use WebObjects to do dynamic QuickTime content... well that would just be the icing on the cake. QT's always been something I've been fascintated by, but never had the chance to really dig deeply into.

Every once in a while I crack open my QT book and get excited, but work and life always gets in the way of real progress.

Taliban fighter says he’s American

CNN.com: Taliban fighter from prison uprising says he's American

After reading this, I had the weirdest thought. What if The Rock from the WWF was there in Afghanistan, questioning this John Walker guy?

The Rock, entering the room: "Finally, the Great One has come back... to Mazar-e Sharif!" He walks over to the injured Taliban figher, and says... "Where you from, Jabronie?"

John Walker: "The name's John, actually. I'm from Ameri..."

The Rock, interrupting, screaming: "It doesn't MATTER where you're from, you steaming pile of monkey crap!"

John Walker: "Wha... what's going to happen to me?"

The Rock: "Know your role and SHUT your mouth. I'm asking the questions here. If you must know, we'll check you into the Smackdown Hotel... and then, in front of the millions of the Rock's fans, the Brahma Bull will layeth the Smackdown on your candy ass!"

Well, you can pretty much figure out how the conversation progresses from there. This has been... Pro Wrestling Interrogation Theatre.

Jad gone?

The Jad homepage is gone.

It's still available in Google's cache, so it couldn't have been long ago that it was removed.

Cached: Home Page of Jad - the fast Java decompiler