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Ultra-geeky comment, the File history for a screen shot of Donkey Kong used on a Wikipedia article about the NES, reads:

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01:14, 30 August 2005 - User: Riumplus
256x240 (1,983 bytes) (Removed unused colour precision in the PNG palette, losslessly shrinking file size by 3%)

18:00, 2 October 2004 - User: Tyan23
256x240 (2,037 bytes) (screenshot Nintendo Entertainment System Donkey_Kong by me {{screenshot}})
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, "losslessly shrinking size by 3%"

Below is the shot in question.



I amuse myself rather easily

Today I noticed some blog spamming for the first time. Somebody posted comments with hundreds of links to outside sites, all selling dubious good typically found on spam email. It was only 3 articles, and I deleted all the postings and banned the IPs.

For now I am not going to do anything else, but I guess I will have to do something if it becomes prevalent.

I went shopping for shoes online. I was looking for for sneakers and casual stuff, but ended up getting some dressy shoes as well. Below is my selection

Kinda gray out. Reading the paper and stuff. Have to do laundry eventually.