View From the Bushes

Though I think that my car still has plenty of malice left in it, I think it's temporarily out of ideas. The final hurdle was a seriously clogged fuel filter, which my mechanic generously waived all the labor costs on (plus a discount on parts). I used the money I saved to bribe the safety inspecter into passing my car. Okay, not really, but the idea that it passed at all is almost as fantastic.

I find that in general I have a limited amount of psychic energy. At any given time, I can worry about three, maybe four things at most. Hopefully now that I've fixed my kids computer, recovered the data off my dead Macintosh, got the car fixed (and by this time tomorrow hopefully licenced), I should finally have the psychic energy to put together a complete update on what's happening with DireKobold. Plus I should have plenty of money -- allow me to explain...

Apparently people often misspell their e-bay listings (NYT registration required, people have complained so here's a link to the Slashdot commentary on it). As a result, their listings are not found by interested parties. However, some people have discovered this, and they search under common misspellings (i.e. compact rather than compaq), purchase the item for 1/10 what it normally sells for and then immediately resell it on e-bay for a tidy profit. Of course now that there's been an article about it, everyone will be doing it....damn...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross