Even though no one posted that they watch the videos (thanks!) I’m posting these anyway. So screw you! We’ll start out easy. This one is only 5 minutes and it will blow your mind. Derek is a musical genius. There are 5 parts to this story, each about 10 minutes. If you start, you won’t …
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Do what your parents did! Get a job sir!
In case WordPress unhelpfully strips the embed code from my feeds, here’s a link to the video. The video stands completely on its own, so I’ll just say: go buy the latest Harvey Milk album. It’s great! For a more substantial taste, you can listen to the full track on their website. Oh and Beck …
News You Can Lose
Nobody told me there was yet another digital display interface standard. HDMI is so last year I guess. It’s cool that it can do native fiber though! The Wii has been hacked and someone ported mplayer to it so that it’ll play DVD’s now and do other cool home-brew stuff. Cool. See also. They’re triple-dipping …
This and That
I finally got Jose Gonzalez’ new album and it’s mostly great. I was lucky enough to find a couple of completely kickass videos of my two favorite songs on youtube. I embed them here for your pleasure. Man, I wish I could have Jose come to my house for a personal show! I haven’t been …
More Must-See Videos
If you don’t know Errol Morris, go rent or buy all of the documentaries he’s directed (feel free to skip his non-docs!). I haven’t seen his new film, Standard Operating Procedure but I’m excited to do so. The film is about the events surrounding the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. I came across a …
Bash SSH Happiness
So Dennis? (whose name doesn’t appear anywhere on his blog except for in the URL) wrote a cool bash script to create aliases for every host in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. I found some bugs/problems so I spiffed it up a bit. As the comments say, you should pipe the output to sort(1). I’ve tried to …
OSCON08 Wrap-up
A few things to wrap up. The Stress on Programmers Slides Man oh man I wish there was a recording of the talk. I looked over the slides and they don’t do the talk justice by themselves as one might expect. Glenn posted some comments that I think have the slides for the XMPP talk …
Down The Line
A while ago, Glenn and I saw Jose Gonzalez in Atlanta. It was a great show. He played this song then, but didn’t have a name for it. At the show it was much more intense, iirc. I wish I could get a copy of the board recording for that show. I really love the …
OSCON08 Day 2
Today’s keynotes didn’t do much for me. The first guy was trying to justify intellectual property as a concept. Epic fail. The rest weren’t really all that noteworthy other than a good message to stop whinging. I’m a bad whinger. Two things I’ve noticed about the conference so far: For supposedly smart people, everyone seems …
OSCON08 Day 1
Breakfast was tasty, but the good grub was dwarfed by the conversation at the table. I sat down at a table of four or five guys and no one seemed to know each other. These two guys who were both in their mid 40’s kept trying to out-geek each other. It was really quite unintentionally …