Supersize Me
Yesterday we saw Super Size Me. I liked the movie as entertainment, although it wasn’t as scientifically or statisically signifcant as it could have been. Since part of the implication of the film is that this guy’s all McDonalds diet mirrors the ill effects suffered by many Americans from eating fast food, it would have [...]
Blogroll
I got email from Loic Le Meur of all people today. He was pointing out that my blogroll on the left side was pointing to his old weblog. Since what is there comes from the export of my RSS aggregator, I updated it today so whatever changes I’ve made in the last 5 weeks are [...]
Stander
On Sundance Channel just now I watched Anatomy of a Scene about a scene from a movie I’ve never heard of - Stander. The film looks highly interesting, about an Afrikaaner policeman in Johannesburg in the mid-70’s. Somewhere in there he has a turning point and begins to buck the system, eventually becoming a bank [...]
Segundo Viento
After a few weeks of getting my butt royally kicked in Spanish class, I felt pretty good this week. I actually had studied and was able to converse pretty well. Only two students showed up, so we had lots and lots of one-on-one conversation. I hit a few walls when there were things I wanted [...]
More on Shrook
I think it would be overstating it to say I have a love-hate relationship with Shrook. Let’s call it a “like-irk” relationship. I like the program and it is the best combination of client side and server side RSS aggregation that I have available at this time. I was using FeedOnFeeds which I liked for [...]
The Heavy Hand of the Music Man
A few people let me know about this story that Clear Channel is blocking musicians using instant CD technology. Since Clear Channel bought a company that holds the patent on that, any musicians using competitive technology are being blocked from doing it at CC venues. This kind of has the stink of antitrust about it, [...]
This Phrase is Mine
I checked in google which has no one else saying it, so there is a strong possibility that I coined the phrase “denial of communion attack” yesterday. Let’s add that to the two other terms I’m claiming (neither of which seems to have spread beyond me: “nicotocracy”, defined as an organization in which all the [...]
Zaurus and Macs
I haven’t been posting much about the Zaurus lately. I’ve been busy and haven’t been doing anything beyond simple everyday stuff with it, so there hasn’t been much to talk about. Thanks to a passerby who left me some information in a writeback, I was informed that you do need a Compact Flash card to [...]
Fedora Core - So Far So Good
I did do the Fedora Core 1->2 upgrade last night, and it seemed to work fine. The only issue I ran into is that the POP package changed, so the ipop3d that things were configured to use no longer existed. A little research turned up that both cyrus-imap and dovecot had POP services built into [...]
Fedora Core 2
A few weeks ago when I installed Fedora Core 1, I was just a little too hasty. If I had waited one more week, I could have gone straight to the FC 2, including the 2.6 kernel and all. I’m downloading and burning the ISOs right now. I wasn’t 100% sure if FC 2 would [...]
MSNBot, Begone!
I just added in the msnbot to my robots.txt as a disallowed user agent. This damn thing has been getting pages from this weblog like crazy all day today. There are thousands and thousands of possible ones if you count all the individual day views and writeback views and category views. It’s been going one [...]
Gay Protest Against the Catholic Church
The last inter-blog argument between me and my brother was about the Catholic Church denying communion for political reasons. They are at it again. According to this story in Gapers Block, Cardinal George has ordered Chicago area priests to deny communion to anyone wearing a rainbow sash this Sunday. The message here is clear: the [...]
X-Arcade Dual Controller
Here’s a review of a good looking joystick, useable with MAME and others. If I buy another joystick to use with MAME, it will have two joysticks such that I can use it for Robotron (my favorite arcade game of all time). I’ve played it in manners other than two joysticks, like two sets of [...]
Compleat Sturgeon
One of my ongoing literature projects is to read every short story by the late great Theodore Sturgeon. I have a number of the books in the series from North Atlantic Books that collects all his short fiction and am slowly working through them. My original plan was to read a story a day, but [...]
Go Jackets
The Georgia Tech Yellowjackets baseball team play their first game in the ACC tournament on Wednesday. They go into this tournament with a seventeen game winning streak. Wow! May they kick ass all the way to Omaha.
Pingstorm
It turns out that that XML-RPC ping plugin had a biiiiig flaw, one that resulted in an unintentional denial of service attack on my own weblog. The way it would work is by first doing the ping for each of the URLs defined in a list. If all were successful, it would write a “touch” [...]
XML-RPC Pinging
Over the weekend I installed the blosxom plugin that does XML-RPC pinging when new entries are posted. I previously had the one that pings weblog.com installed, but this one does that, blo.gs and Technorati. In fact, now I’m looking around to see what other sites like that support the same XML-RPC interface. It helps [...]
Puntamona
I saw this little item about Punta Mona (who can resist a place named “Monkey Point?”) on WorldChanging.com. It sounds like a good place to spend some time - an 87 acre self-sustaining farm that is off the grid, powered by solar panels and methane digesters. They have accomodations there and you can take rainforest [...]
Week 8
My weight this week was 231 - down 2 pounds from last week and 15 pounds from baseline. The slow and steady pace continues. Starting this week, I plan on biking to the train station when I can, so that 2 miles of bike riding a few times a week should help out some as [...]
Richard Biggs, RIP
According to this post on J. Michael Straczynski’s mailing list actor Richard Biggs died this weekend. That’s a damn shame as he was a good actor and by all accounts a great person. I liked him on Babylon 5 but even before that watched him on Days of our Lives where he ignited a mini-firestorm [...]
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