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David Foster Wallace found dead
Green Party activist Peter Camejo dies at 68
To round things up, I overheard someone this weekend say that Hunter S. Thompson has to regret his suicide as the current election cycle was tailor made for him. It is a shame he’s not here now because I think it is finally getting weird enough for me.
Updating WordPress is so easy…except when it isn’t.
ZOMG. It’s amazing how much happier I am when the nightly builds go off without a hitch.
Loving freeway traffic in rush hour. Accidents rule!
Come to find out a carcass truck had “lost its load” all over the I-80 eastbound lanes. It’s not the most squicky thing I’ve ever seen but identifiable body parts on the road is right up there. The smell of cooking bacon was unmistakable and I’ve sworn off commercial meat products again.
Finally fixed the linkies for the Millionaire’s Holiday.
Other people’s installer code sucks. It’s an immutable law of nature.
Just realized the dead router replacement from July broke much of the Millionaire’s Holiday.
Simple Home File Server Based On Ubuntu | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials is a nice little howto article that netted me a file server to use for daily backups. Elz’s hard drive melting down last weekend finally got my ass in gear to put this together. Of course, not before she lost all of her email and address book. I was able to save the photos and music collection though. Hooray for partitions!
At any rate, if’n you’re looking for a quick and dirty network file server, you could do a lot worse than this. OTOH, if’n you’re looking for a micro-powered, highly tailored file server, you can probably do a lot better. All I know is that I now have all of our machines dumping nightly backups to a file server, and have the foundation for a home media center once I get myself together for that project.
From the “Everyone loves this but you never seemed to get off your ass to try it yourself” files I bring you Growl. In and of itself it’s pretty innocuous—just an operating system alert widget. However, when you plug in all sorts of applications it keeps you from ⌘-Tabbing or space jumping all over the place to get alerts of incoming stuff. Alerts just pop up wherever you happen to be when “things happen.” Currently I’m monitoring:
In the past half hour I think I’ve increased my productivity twofold just because I’m not jumping to different spaces every time I get email.
Related, I’ve installed CC Menu to monitor all the freaking builds going on at work. This frees up a bit of space in my cramped RDC connection to my worktop as the monitor now runs in my menu bar and I can open the project window and move it off to the side on the secondary monitor. Sure, it might be easier to just work directly on the worktop but I’m just that committed to using my powerbook. Who says mac fans aren’t zealous?
Not that I encourage spam, or even read a minuscule portion of it, but this struck me as oddly humorous. This one comes from “muriel” with the subject line something along the lines of “did you get my previous email…”
We’re always working to get you the best on the market
http://www.geocities.com/[some gibberish here]/
and senior media executives.[3] As a measure of the club’s exclusivity, it is reported the waiting
overseas. Californian guests are generally limited to attendance at the “Spring Jinxes”, in June,
It just leaves me wondering what exactly the “Spring Jinxes” are and why this is a constraint only for Californian guests. Maybe muriel will write back with more information…