Long-time Fox community member Steven Black decided that I was abusing him on Wikipedia, and sent me an off-wiki message complaining that I was using his web hosting for my Fox Wiki GarrettFitzgerald page for free, and asking what I had done for him lately. Since my content was obviously unwelcome to him, I went up to the site and started removing any content which I was sure I had been the one to contribute, leaving other people’s content alone (for the most part — GarrettFitzgerald and GarrettFKBArticles came down in full, and I removed my name from a couple of lists).

As I was going through the list of messages with my name in them, I suddenly came to a dead stop. *screenshot of “you’ve been blocked” page snipped* When I checked my email again, I found a message saying that I couldn’t be trusted to remove my content from his wiki, but that in a few days, nobody would be able to tell I was there.

Fine by me.

Update: I had a mental shift and realized that what I was doing on the Fox Wiki was a textbook case of vandalism, so I wrote and apologized to Steve, and he promptly unblocked me.

I was just playing Buggle over at The Casual Collective when I saw a rather unusual occurence. Normally, when the links between Buggles are made, they block each other. Somehow, though, in this one, we got a crossover.

Lisa Slater Nicholls reports that large chunks of the documentation for the reporting enhancements in VFP9 were left out because of resource constraints. She plans to post some of what’s needed over the next few generic time periods, as work permits.

A while back, I wrote a short program showing how to use a ReportListener to change a field’s StringTrimming behavior. At the time, I used the GDIPlus foundation class which came out with VFP9. Now that Bo Durban and the VFPX folks have put together the GDIPlusX library, though, the code is a bit cleaner.

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Johnny Depp. Helena Bonham Carter. Alan Rickman.

Sweeney Todd.

According to Clarence Thomas, this Brandeis professor and visiting scholar at Wellesley was a mediocre employee who only had a job because he had given it to her.