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Monthly Archives February 2006

Maybe Rosencrantz and Guildenstern should enter on a miniature train.

angevin2 presents: The Things I Will Not Do When I Direct A Shakespeare Production, On Stage Or Film. I cannot choose favorites. Go and read them all.

Posted 26 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal § Quick links ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

No.

Posted 24 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , ,

overriding usb charging current in linux?

Asking here because I can’t think of where I should post, and because I’m tired of people on various IRC channels completely misunderstanding the question, and because I know a few people from RIM read this: The goal here is to charge my Blackberry by plugging it into a USB host running Linux. The problem […]

Posted 21 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: ,

gravity and an enclosed thingy

Bobsledding isn’t very exciting to watch having already watched luge and skeleton.

Posted 19 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °

geekery: centos, RSI prevention

<geekery> I’ve been using CentOS 4, a freely-redistributable build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, on a bunch of new servers at work lately, and I’m impressed with the fit and finish. Until now I’ve been using Fedora Core, and while it’s been fine, it moves a bit fast for me — product lifetimes measured […]

Posted 19 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Johari personality window

If you know me well or have known me for a while, go contribute to my Johari window, so I can see how my self-assessment compares with others’ assessments of my personality. The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing […]

Posted 10 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: ,

Decorating an altoids tin

I’ve got an altoids tin that I’m using as a case for my iPod Shuffle. It works pretty well — I cut the original packaging up to make a little plastic bit that holds the shuffle itself against the lid, and then the little quick-reference card and the headphones fit in the bottom part. So […]

Posted 08 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (14) ° Tagged:

also the US curling effort seems to involve cute blonde sisters somehow

From a Associated Press overview piece on Olympic curling from the NBC Olympics website: Although popular in Scotland, which claims to have invented curling, and in Canada, which claims to have invented ice, curling remains on the fringe in the United States. Editors? Editors?

Posted 05 February 2006 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: , ,