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i promise that I will set up a test blog for all of my garbage postings.
This is an annoyance to all of you who read my site and expect quality. Real quality. Not some garbage from a guy that can't be bothered to set up a testing blog for his garbage. ha!
Well, shiver me timbers.
I wonder if this is really going to work. I would certainly like that.
Boy oh boy would that make my little heart go pidduh-padduh.
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Just when I thought sunday nights were safe. Sex and the City has finished, the Sopranos are nowhere to be found and Six Feet Under is done for the wants to control me. I watched 3 hours of Carnivale last night (thank you, Tivo!!!). The story is nice, with a good mix of surreal and gritty realism.
I like stuff. Books. Music. Movies. Comic Books.
To deal with it, I was pointed at Koha, by Ed from the local Perl mongers. Koha is a perl-based, open source (GPL) library software. It is young, though, and I am no librarian, so I am not sure exactly how much it will help me. I have installed it on my laptop though, so I will check it out. As long as it can help me keep track of my stuff, then I will be happy. I mean all my stuff, though. ;)
My "iTunes, Therefore I Am" sidebar is based on a category dedicated to it, that accepts trackbacks. That is ridiculous.
Lists are so common that we need a simple way to make them. A list is different than an entry. Lists need to be their own thing.
A list needs entries that consist of a single item. To make things simple, we could leave the item up to the user, so if it was a link, it could be a link. If it was simply text, it could be simply text.
Simple.
tracey and I went to see schadenfreude last night at Arlington Height's newish Metropolis Performing Arts Center. The sketch comedy show is a recent addition to our local public radio station WBEZ's sunday night lineup.
I had heard about the show through radio spots, but on sunday nights my heart (and eyeballs) are generally with HBO. Well, that will probably not change from seeing the show, but I will at least set my mac to record the stream of the show down from the internet. ;)
Our friend Shiow works on the show as sometimes-director, editor, jack of all trades, and she invited us to see the live show. Having not seen any on-stage comedy since the last time we went to the Neo-Futurarium to see Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, i didn't know what to expect. I take that back. I expected more political jokes for some reason. No matter, the material was hilarious, starting right out with a sketch where the 3 characters are all acting crazy, dressed crazily and completely silent. Then they launch into a tirade about what a stupid idea it is to do a visual bit for the radio. ;)
Anyway, check out some of the streams from WBEZ to listen in for your self. Funny, funny stuff.
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Gameboy Advance Development just released a whopping set of homebrew games from their competition. For a small prize (1100 bucks, i think), these folks cranked out some great games!
I like Sushi the Cat, especially.
Finally!
We have pulled the trigger and had a new tile floor installed on the first floor. Lookin good, despite the fact that I am a lazy photographer any more. ;)
Check out our new tile.
Jeff came over to help me move the appliances before the tile guys came over. While here, he showed me The Human Clock. His friend Niles (featured at the bottom of that page with a lovely girl in a red dress) showed him the site. Anyway, they have a photo for each minute of the day (multiple photos for many times). Load it up, pick your timezone and you are good to go!
well, i tried to send verisign's sitefinder a polite note and this is what I get:
[jason@tetsuo jason]$ telnet 64.94.110.11 80
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to 64.94.110.11.
Escape character is '^]'.
FUCK OFF
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>405 Method Not Allowed</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Method Not Allowed</H1>
The requested method FUCK is not allowed for the URL OFF.<P>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
After reading unix-girl's post on mrtg, I remembered using it a long time ago for a job. This may be able to help me with isolating why the colo box reboots every now and again. If i can isolate traffic spikes or figure out if it is totally random, I will be happy. Of course, maybe if the host moved it to a better spot in the facility it may help as well, considering they once "accidentally" unplugged it.
I need a chart to demonstrate the uptime. Maybe then I can get to the bottom of this.
;)
My talk at Monday's Chicago PM meeting went pretty well. There was some lively discussion, although I need to rearrange part of the talk.
In that spirit, I am starting work on converting the talk to an article or a set of articles. If anyone has any comments, please send them over. Also, thanks to everyone at the meeting for suggestions and questions!
Also, I will be giving a modified version of the talk at the upcoming Uniforum perlSIG at the college of dupage (details / directions).
Hi All.
I have finished up the handout materials and code samples for my Perl Blogging Techniques talk at tonights Perl Mongers meeting. The samples are available for downloading now. The handout is a PDF file.
I registered for the iTunes music store to enter their iPod a day drawing, but had no real intention of using it. Then I saw that there was a re-released 2 disc version of Sonicy Youth's Dirty. A couple of quick price checks later and i had purchased it from iTunes.
The files are the protected AAC files, but the sound quality is really nice and pretty much only listen to stuff on my computer or iPod anyway. Even through the stereo, I hook the iPod up to it.
I am worried at how easy it is to buy albums. Then i looked at the prices on some of them. $ for some albums, $13 for others. I thought there was supposed to be a savings. Oh wait. That is for the labels. The artists don't really make any substantial amount from this service, so I guess that is like the status quo.
Anyway, it is a great SY album. ;)
bill, tracey and I went to see Matchstick Men (salon review, ebert review) last night. It was not great, primarily due to the ending, but it had a great performance by Nicolas Cage (who I loved in Adaptation, as well). The movie reminded me of Peter Bogdonavich's Paper Moon, but it had less heart. The ending assumes the audience is too dumb to realize what just happened over the last 2 hours.
Thanks for tolerating a few weeks of random, incoherent posts (most of which have been deleted).
In the process of wrapping up the code for my perl blogging techniques talk, i made lots of test posts which should have simply gone to a test blog. Ha! I am not that smart. ;)
Anyway, new content to expect here soon:
Update of /usr/local/sbgcvs/CVSROOT
In directory tetsuo.mengelt.com:/tmp/cvs-serv31277
Modified Files:
modules
Log Message:
Removed flaky build docs script from modules.
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A few regexp's later and I have less funky formatting!
The AIM bot is not bad. Ideally, I would like to translate some of the font formatting into CSS, but that is a big effort, and probably not worth it. The next thing I am thinking would be good for this bot would be to tie it to a POE: Perl Object Environment script so the blog posting was non-blocking.
I have finished the basic posting scripts thanks to Net::Blogger. The module is good, if poorly documented. I could write docs, I guess, but I am busy. ;)
Code samples and talk slides to come soon.