A Playstation 2 emulator for Windows/Linux is being developed by the authors of PCSX, a Playstation 1 emulator. It only runs some simple demos at the moment, but it’s amazing that it exists at all. No word on a functional Xbox emulator yet…

In 1992, Sabeer Bhatia posts a classified ad from his Stanford e-mail account offering his ’88 Toyota Tercel for sale. In June 1996, Jack Smith mentions Hotmail for the first time in Usenet. One month later, on July 4, they publically announced the product they created. Three years and eight million users later, they sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million. It’s a good story, if you haven’t read it already.

Denoser is a Perl script that filters out the noses from emoticons. And you thought Ben Trott’s Silly::Die module was useless…

In the spirit of Leslie Harpold’s recent Verisign debacle and David Gallagher’s successful campaign to get his name back, I’m starting a Googlebombing campaign of my own.

Help me defeat Scott Baio and get my name back! Burn, Chachi, burn! (Baio! Baio! Baio!)

I love it when people find the three-year-old blank checkbook you’ve thrown away, and start writing checks in your name. Fortunately my account has long since changed, so they didn’t get a dime, but it’s still unnerving to see someone else signing your full name.

Note to potential thieves:

I don’t sign my middle initial, and I don’t write like a girl.

Note to self:

Shred unused checks from now on.