First the important bit: This is post #100 for me. Whee!
Today was a good shopping day. I am currently full of the pork buns
I bought for dinner. I’ve also got some ham-and-egg buns for breakfast
next week. Also from Kowloon Market came taro and black rice mochi, a
couple containers of the udon and kimchi ramen I [...]
I own far too many hair products.
What do you get when you fasten a wireless camera to a
cat?
Kittybrain.
In other news, Electric Version, the latest album from Vancouver’s
New Pornographers — Neko Case’s regular gig — is some
fine indie powerpop. Big Star meets New Wave meets Wilco somewhere
north of 49. You want this album.
(Shouldn’t be too hard to find in the [...]
I managed to procure a Cobalt Qube 2 today. It’s been a while since I’ve geeked on hardware, so I’m sort of looking forward to playing with it. It’s a neat little box — we had it lying around
at work because they’re technically a competitor to one of our
products, and a long, long time ago [...]
Back when I created my LJ, I chose Wlonkly as a username
because Rich was deleted-and-purged. I didn’t realize
at the time that I could rename
to a deleted-and-purged username, and now it’s sitting there tempting
me to do so now.
Background: I’ve used “mendel” on IRC for about eight years now. I
started using “wlonkly” as my alternate nickname on [...]
So a while
ago I asked people to tell me what the last version of sendmail was
that required unique forward files for all users to avoid having mail
seem to disappear for some of them. Richard Soderberg sent me the
winning entry: Sendmail 8.11.6, which is to say the behavior is
still present.
I was disappointed by that [...]
The newest version of the Phoenix browser has been released:
Firebird 0.6. (Note name change.)
The UI widgets are incredibly fast compared to 0.5, and there is a lot
of refinement and new features kicking around. If you’re using an older
Phoenix, upgrade.
Still works with ns-cli, too. Yay!
Blargh, I have teh FLU.
So this in retrospect amuses me:
I host a Web forum for Irish flute and tinwhistle players. The machine
on which it runs lost a disk to heat, so we shut the machine down to
prevent losing any more disks until we can get a new case.
In the meantime, one of the co-admins on [...]
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