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Hawaii Chair 2008-03-07 08:20:08 You have got to be fucking kidding me.
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HOWTO: make old Firefox extensions install in 3.0 betas 2008-03-06 23:14:06 If you’re like me you’re already running one of the Firefox
3 betas and loving the new features and stability lacking in the earlier series. The only issue now is that it’s taking extension writers time to update their extension to be compatible with the new Betas. Some of these extensions
can almost [...] Read more:HOWTO
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The biggest pool in the world 2008-02-29 10:18:59 Ok, it covers 20 acres (eight hectares), is more than 1,000 yards long, is 115 feet deep at the deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water, so it’s no surprise that this pool in Chile has been named the biggest in the world by the Guinness Book of Records. The previous champ is [...]
HOWTO: determine optimal fastcgi settings for Lighttpd 2008-02-28 11:50:58 Anyone building a server with a LAMP stack today has tons of options, mine have evolved to using Varnish -> Lighttpd -> Xcache -> PHP5 -> MySQL. Once I had Lighttpd (aka Lighty) installed and running PHP pages I looked to optimize the configuration and push it as hard as possible for more speed. [...] Read more:HOWTO
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Man stabs brother-in-law over political argument 2008-02-27 08:53:11 I’m all for having opinions, but if a simple disagreement turns to violence, someone must be watching too much tv. The apparent argument was over a Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama argument! “…Jose Antonio Ortiz, a Clinton supporter, allegedly stabbed his brother-in-law Sean Shurelds in the stomach after they argued over the race for nomination. Shurelds, 41, [...] Read more:political
Reviewer makes “educated guess” that new Black Crowes album blowes 2008-02-26 12:43:29 While I don’t look to Maxim for advice on buying music, it seems hilarious that one of their writers slammed the upcoming Black
Crowes’ release, giving it only ** 1/2 stars out of *****, without even hearing the full album. That’s cold. “The band posted an exasperated statement on its Web site last week, saying [...] Read more:makes
Olbermann chronicles Bush’s nexus of politics and terror 2008-02-26 11:48:11 Watching the “coincidences” between political decisions and terror alerts since 2001 (we’re currently at Bert!) has been a favorite spectator sport of mine, but of course it takes Keith Olbermann
to fully chronicle the ongoing Bush legacy. Called “The Nexus of Politics and Terror” it provides “…the Bush administration’s exploitation of terror threats for [...] Read more:chronicles
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HOWTO: sound after hibernate in Linux (Gusty/Lenny) 2008-02-25 11:51:31 With all the tweaking to get my Dell Vostro 1500 working with Ubuntu, it’s still been an annoyance to get sound working evertime after hibernation. It goes to sleep fine, it wakes up fine, it obeys all of the power preferences I defined within Gnome fine too, it’s just that when it comes out [...] Read more:HOWTO
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(Paranoid) Android demo 2008-02-21 09:05:02 Here’s a working demo of Google’s Android
operating system in action. It’s got some pretty fly features, with a few bits that remind me a bit too much of the iPhone, but hey. Now if they put it on a decent phone (OpenMoko anyone?) with a data plan that doesn’t require the use of AT&T, [...]
HOWTO: Speedup Firefox in 5 easy steps 2008-02-20 15:39:29 These are some basic tweaks to speed up Firefox
that have been tried and true for some time now. I haven’t seen these collected in one place recently, so if you have Firefox and want to improve its performance, try these steps
. If you have a broadband connection (who doesn’t?), you can speed up your [...] Read more:HOWTO
Arthur C. Clarke has died 2008-03-18 22:20:46 Arthur C. Clarke
has died in Sri-Lanka, at age 90. Now I’m by no means a big reader, I’d love to be, but I really never have the time. Still, from where I’m typing this I can count 25 books authored by Mr. Clarke on my bookshelf. His stories are an amazing blend of science [...] Read more:Arthur
Refused live album forthcoming 2008-03-28 13:25:00 Swedish band Refused is my all time favorite hardcore band, which ended after the release and abbreviated tour of their last album, the monumental, The Shape of Punk to Come - a CD permanently on the list of my all time fav records. Word from the Refusedfan.com website is that Refused member David Sandström has [...] Read more:forthcoming
Open Source is good for you 2008-03-31 11:47:17 A recent study by a tech group talks about not only there being a positive monetary benefit for IT workers to know Open Source
, but a more fulfilling sense of purpose as well. While this tells me nothing I don’t already know, it’s something that’s important as the next wave of IT geeks start knocking [...]
Record Store Day - April 19, 2008 2008-04-04 11:00:11 “On Saturday, April
19, 2008, hundreds of independently owned music stores across the country will celebrate RecordStore
Day. On this day, all of these stores will simultaneously link and act as one with the purpose of celebrating the culture and unique place that they occupy both in their local communities and nationally.” There [...]
White trash charms Japan 2008-04-02 15:40:12 This has to be my favorite ‘lost in translation’ picture ever. If that’s not a band name or a website I don’t know what is. [Source link]
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Back up 2008-04-18 09:13:43 Our DSL went out last Friday, and didn’t come back up until yesterday…frak. I’ve hosted all of my websites on homebuilt servers for over 7 years now, and I love doing it, but when the temps change or some phone repair guy plugs something in wrong, we’re down. It’s never the internal wiring, it’s never [...]
Off we go… 2008-04-20 09:53:45 Image via Wikipedia
Heading out today for Woods Hole, MA - it’s supposed to be beautiful (expect pictures on my grossly underused flickr account). I’m representing the Biodiversity Heritage Library in a meeting with the Encyclopedia of Life folks as we discuss standardizing data streams for upcoming sharing of data. It may not sound [...]
First ever Record Store Day rocked! 2008-04-28 13:57:25 So, as I mentioned earlier, last Saturday was the first ever RecordStore
Day, and yeah, it rocked. I took the whole family down the street to our local Euclid Records, where tables outside the store hawked BBQ and cheap cds, with a crow inside buying records, cds and enjoying local bands rock out. [...] Read more:First
Nomina meeting in Woods Hole 2008-05-02 16:07:04 Last week I traveled to Woods
Hole, MA to attend Nomina 2. Woods Hole is the home of the Marine Biology Lab, and it’s where Encylopedia of Life is based. EoL played the host, and did a wonderful job at making us confortable in a very quaint, peaceful town. The meeting
was organized by TDWG [...]
HOWTO: Configure nginx for Debian / Ubuntu 2008-05-05 13:20:19 I’m always trying new software, and with the webserver I’ve moved from Apache 1.3 to 2.0 to 2.2, and then later I moved everything over to Lighttpd, which I’ve liked, save for some memory issues that popped up. Now, enter a web server named nginx (engine x), written by a Russian hacker. It’s already [...] Read more:HOWTO
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4 reasons why Macs are moving into the enterprise 2008-05-05 09:38:18 With the barriers lowering, and other market factors creeping in, Macs are slowly making a move into the enterprise
. While this may/may not solely be Apple driven, the fact is that people like choices, and the Macs are now far more compatible with other systems than they once were, so finally folks have options. In [...]
California to allow same sex marriage 2008-05-16 14:11:12 Yesterday California
Supreme Court struck down the ban on gay marriage
, making it only the second state to allow/acknowledge same sex marriage. Here’s hoping this will be the trend, or at least a precident, for the future. Which will be the next state to grant the basic right of marriage to everyone? Human rights, what [...]
Radiohead was freaking fantastic 2008-05-15 16:15:41 We saw Radiohead
last night, and they did not disappoint. My wife and I weren’t looking forward to the venue, a big shed and lawn ‘pavilion’ that everyone has now, but in the end it turned out to be a great night, with the location not being bad at all. We last saw Radiohead [...]
Chat on Skype via Pidgin on Linux (or Adium on Mac) 2008-05-14 10:33:37 This is a big deal for me, I played with Skype
back in the day, but never really used it much since it required a second client, and I have always used Gaim (which is now Pidgin) to consolidate all of my accounts into one client and didn’t want to break out of that mold, [...] Read more:Linux
Morrissey turns 49 2008-05-22 09:54:58 I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Morrissey’s Birthday today, he turns
49. It was one year ago tonight that I saw him play here in St. Louis for his 48th…time flies. Over the weekend my wife and I watched a dvd of a rebroadcast concert from Madrid in 1984 of The Smiths, and [...]
bloxtr.com - the network is the computer 2008-05-23 11:49:02 Haven’t we seen this before?
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bloxtr.com
Tired of lugging that heavy laptop around? Today’s Web site lets you take your computing online, and access it from anywhere. Bloxtr is completely free, and offers a familiar Windows-like interface; complete with an office suite, games, and accessories.
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HOWTO: automatically reconfigure Xorg in Debian 2008-05-27 10:38:58 If you’re like me, you’ve messed up your xorg.conf before and wanted to start over with the default that you know dpkg-reconfigure can set it to. Because of this I’m posting here because I’ve needed it multiple times in the past and have tired of looking it up! To automatically reconfigure Xorg in Debian
or [...] Read more:HOWTO
The importance of understanding net netrality 2008-06-02 00:24:37 To understand how importance net neutrality is you need to watch the following video. Think about the freedom that the Internet allows you, now think about how you are limited to certain ‘packages’ when you pay for cable or satellite access to watch TV. This is exactly how the corporate behemoths want to make [...]
John McSame - why McCain would be 4 more years of the same 2008-06-09 12:17:04 Say what you want about Barack’s ‘change’ message, just know if you go with John McCain
you’re saying yes to four more years of Bush style politics. While he’s still hawking that ‘maverick’ tag, don’t believe the hype, instead, let’s look at some statements by the senator. Recently McCain perked my interest when he came [...]
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