Quixotic Evil

At the Loch Ness Monster's 'official' site (and I blame Irregular Webcomic for sending me there) they have the most foul and terrible Flash animation I have ever seen.

See if you can spot it.

Some of you may have been turned away from pages on the site by ugly validation error messages that killed the whole document. For once it's those with the decent browsers who are more likely to have had problems.

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Although I've got a fair sized hosting setup running Debian Linux and supporting almost everything I need, my current line of professional development means that I really ought to be able to host ASP.NET applications, perhaps even with MS SQL support. Unfortunately my web hosts (Memset, who incidentally have been absolutely great for three years or so now) don't offer Windows on anything smaller than their medium sized virtual server (which is twice as powerful and expensive as my Linux setup, which I'm not making the most of as it is).

Anyone got any host recommendations for a small Windows web hosting account? I need an account that supports ASP.NET 2.0 and a database server (MS SQL would be worth more to me, but I can make do with MySQL).

[Please nobody mention Mono. It almost drove me crazy when I decided I wanted MonoDevelop, and after several hours in Dependency Hell trying to build it from source I opted to upgrade Debian to its 'Unstable' edition. I've checked the Debian package for libapache2-mod-mono and it requires a particular version of Apache 2, one of the less common execution models. Unfortunately, mod_php5 requires a different one, and since the execution models are mutually exclusive, so are mod_mono and mod_php5.]

While looking at the Wikipedia article on Scrying* I noticed this.

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