Go East, Ernesto!
Looks like we missed this almost entirely. It’s tracked just far enough east that we aren’t even getting much wind now. We’ve had rain, but far less wind than I was expecting. I think Wilmington NC is going to get it worse than we did. Hold tight, neighbors to the north!
Studio 60
I’ve seen the commercials for the upcoming Studio 60 series and heard the hype about it, and I have a one word reaction: “Yaaaaaawn.” I’m one of those people who thought the West Wing was good in parts but I never worshipped it and never found it great. Frequently I found it too annoying and [...]
Street Cred
Overheard on the Penn Jillette Radio show:
There is no street cred in line dancing.
You Can’t Skim Podcasts
I was listening to this panel on IT Conversations, and I heard Mena Trott repeat a canard that I’ve heard her say umpteen times on various ITC panels. Pretty much every time I ever hear her on a panel, she makes the statement “You can skim blogs but you can’t skim podcasts.” I’m just sick [...]
Sudo
Today I saw this, and it hit me just right to send me into hysterics. Color me geek boy.
Rain Rain Go Away
It’s looking more like Ernesto is nothing to worry about. It’s been downgraded to a tropical depression and the latest wind speed probabilities have us at 40% of receiving 34 MPH winds, and 8% of 50 MPH. Hell, that’s an average day where I grew up in Kansas. I’m not quite officially standing down from [...]
EGC Clambake For August 29, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 29, 2006.
I decide on the spur of the moment to throw myself a second anniversary bash for this podcast (which began on August 20, 2004 - we start the party early around here, you frigging late-comers). I play the [...]
Ernesto
That’s not a happy site. The probable line for Ernesto’s path is straight from Charleston to right about our area. If it takes that path, at least it will have weakened for 90 miles before it gets here. The worst case for us would be for it to go out to sea and strengthen, and [...]
Start Me Up
Here is a very interesting Linux project called upstart which aims to replace the way all processes are started and stopped on the system. This would supercede init, cron, inetd and anything that needs to control a running process based on criteria. Upstart would be event based, so that all of cron’s functionality is a [...]
Eggs and Baskets
Here’s an interesting story about a midsized company being held hostage by their credit card processing software vendor. What’s really interesting is their conclusions from the experience. A decade ago, companies were skeptical about dealing with open source software because they felt that having no company behind it exposed them to too much risk. The [...]
Let It Be Known
When I put my hands in the air and wave them like I just don’t care, there is no “like.” I well and truly just don’t care. Now scream.
(Very Late) Summer Reading
This year, I’ve read more books than any year in recent history. I’m forcing myself to spend less time dicking around online and more reading. I just finished The Long Tail and now I have a a new book. It is Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and [...]
Tags: lamarwaldron, ultimatesacrificeBrad Sucks on Productivity
The title reads two ways, I mean it in the positive interpretation. Here is one of the most succinct summations of my feelings on productivity and creativity. I frequently talk about “putting your ass in the chair and doing the work.” Brad was talking about doing the groundwork for his next album when he dropped [...]
Tags: bradsucksIn the ATL
14th Street/Piedmont Park from above
Originally uploaded by evilgenius.
We’re in Atlanta for the weekend. Sorry friends that we aren’t getting in touch with. It’s always tough to come back here because we can book every possible second catching up with friends without seeing everyone. We’re here [...]
EGC Clambake For August 25, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 25, 2006.
I talk a little about the loss of my beloved dog, play some sad songs by K. McCarty, discuss Chris Anderson’s book The Long Tail and go back to my theme of why we all do this if [...]
(Not) Getting Things Done
I couldn’t have known it at the time, but I picked about the worst time possible to begin my transformation to Getting Things Done. Because of the various crises in life lately, I haven’t really been doing the reviews regularly enough to meet the minimum needs of the system. When that part gets dropped, you [...]
Lost Weekend
… or at least Sunday. Saturday was OK, but from 3 AM to midnight on Sunday I lay on the living room couch, alternately sweating and shivering. The only time I got up that whole time was to occasionally hurl. That’s what you call a bad day. I’m up and moving and making it to [...]
Set it Off
Doc Searls has always been my favorite “A-list blogger.” Part of what I like about him so much is how uncomfortable he is with that tag. Famous people who love to be famous for its own sake have a strong tendency to be assholes, so I like my famous people to have a certain amount [...]
Tags: docsearlsThe New Normal
I don’t know that I’ll ever feel normal normal, but I’ve reached a sort of new equilibrium. It’s very sad doing the basics of life without Grace. For 15 years she’s been an intrinsic part of our lives, and for something like the last 7 or 8 she has received pills at 12 hourly intervals [...]
Schneier
When I saw the Everbody Loves Eric Raymond strip on Bruce Schneier, I knew I was in for good stuff. I found the Chuck Norris thing pants-wettingly funny, and the Schneier version was no disappointment. This is the very first one I hit.
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic [...]
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