Undelete Me
I just did what is sadly a not terribly uncommon screwup for me, trying to change a filename I typed “rm file1 file2″, thereby deleting the first file. Quick like a bunny before something else was written on that space, I looked for an undelete type program and found recover, which worked just fine. [...]
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Set Me Free
Today is far too pretty to be at work. I feel dumb for sitting in my cubicle when there is a shining sun to be soaked up, trees to be sat under, birds to listen to. What am I thinking?
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AudioScrobbler Hammered
Seems like AudioScrobbler might be a victim of its own success. It seems to be getting more users than it can handle, with odd errors popping up and general slow response out of the site. Sometimes it’s better to have a shallower adoption curve.
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Jukebox Social Engineering
The other night I ate dinner at our local pub
Fox and Hounds, close enough to walk to for when one might have a couple. I like the food, I like the proximity but mostly I go there to dominate the jukebox. I didn’t play
it this time, but sometimes I play a social engineering jukebox game [...]
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Brain Gender
Have I really not made an entry in two days? My wife is out of town, which always makes everything topsy turvy. Routines are gone and nothing seems quite right. After raging storms Friday that put our power out for hours and hours, this weekend has been beautiful weatherwise. I need to shortly get out [...]
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AudioScrobbler
Another dorky thing I’m trying out is Audioscrobbler. This is a collaborative filter (ala Alexandria Digital Literature) that is a plugin to one’s MP3 player. It pushes out to a server the song you are listening to, and then can do statistics on the co-occurrence of bands. This lets them recommend groups based on the [...]
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Sci-Fi Overdrive
I saw a reference to Sci-Fi Overdrive, a science fiction radio talk show, on Usenet. I’d have to check my mail to be sure, but I seem to recall these guys (guy?) e-mailing me a while back about Reality Break. I need to listen to the streams of their show. Hell, I should see if [...]
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Lonely Boy
I put my wife on a plane back to the Research Triangle area. I’m already sad and lonely and I miss her. I can tell that the one way I will not be consoling myself is by throwing myself into my work. I suspect I’ll watch a lot of the gangster and martial arts movies. [...]
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Innovator’s Dillemma
Before the trip to North Carolina, I was listening to the audiobook of Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen. As it turns out, he has a website for his work . Interesting stuff, but I’m not sure I buy all of it. The central premise is that successful companies are stymied by paradigm shifting technologies, [...]
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Returns
We’re back home. The drive from Goldsboro NC to Atlanta GA from 5:30 PM to 1 AM last night wasn’t the most fun I’ve ever had, but it’s over for now. I’m back at work which also isn’t the most fun.
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Chesterton
I’m in North Carolina for a family emergency. With any luck we can get home tomorrow or best case scenario, later today. I’m not holding the breath on that last, but it’s not impossible.
I’ve been reading G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Would Be Thursday, which I bought from AlexLit a long time ago but [...]
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Bad Work Day #172
I remain surprised by how wrong I am when I think things at work have gotten as bad as they can get. Everytime I think that, a new low is set. I should stop thinking about that, it gets too depressing too fast. As Ben Grimm the Thing says when he’s tired of the rest [...]
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TNH on Iraq
Teresa Nielsen-Hayden speaks the truth about Iraq. This is good stuff and I agree with this
right down the line.
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Bad Day All Around
I am at the bottom of my barrel. I am drained and depressed and I just want to nap for a month. I feel like getting a baseball bat and smacking everyone who is on my nerves. I’m sick and I’m tired and I’m sick & tired. I’ve been hoping so hard for better days [...]
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Tax Day Cliche
I’m at work and I’ve spent the whole day wondering if it was a mistake coming in. Last night on Fox5 news in Atlanta, they reported the tax story exactly as I said they would. This year, the poor schmuck doing a standup at the Hapeville post office was Roy Hobbs. He must have drawn [...]
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Grab bag
Separated out a few entries from the political ones earlier today. Here is a link to a Gestural pad for GUI actions.
John Gregory Betancourt posts that some of his stories have been adapted as audio plays that are freely streamable on the internet. I need to listen to those, as well as some of the [...]
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Political Grab Bag
Here are a bunch of links I had been saving in DM.net or SFF.net newsgroups and finally mailed to myself.
A guy got fired from his production company after backlash to his remarks that Americans support Bush because of fear. Exactly what part of this is controversial? I thought this was a matter of undisputed fact. [...]
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Dreading Tax Day News
I’m home sick today, feeling all stopped up and logey. Tonight is the night to see my annual least favorite local news reportage - the story at some local post office at 11 PM, as they interview dumbasses just mailing their taxes. Every city in this nation will carry the same story they do every [...]
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Republicans Eat Babies
At the mall for lunch I stopped in a bookstore. I didn’t know this, but apparently the greatest problem America faces today is liberalism. I saw a number of books in the new section with subtitles like “How liberals are ruining this country”, “Why God hates the ACLU” and stuff like that. I looked for [...]
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Turturro Love
I can’t tell if I have a cold or the pound and a half of pollen I breathed yesterday just gives cold like symptoms. I feel like crap, though.
From my brother in instant message comes a link to “Who elected you leader of this outfit?”, the John Turturro worship page. I’ve really liked him as [...]
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