First of all, I would like to note that a cat walking around on the keyboard makes it rather difficult to type. Just something to keep in mind.
The very observant among you may notice several posts in the recent past that have a title that begins “One AM,…” Those of you who have [...]
(or, why Exchange Server may ruin my life, that bastard program.)
Actually, the massive file that I’m copying at the moment is the same one that I was copying a couple of days ago.
Here’s the situation. My company uses Exchange for e-mail and calendar and all of that kind of stuff. I [...]
On the subject of Microsoft Exchange, it blows. It really sucks. I mean, it’s terrible. Like, horrible. Like, I don’t fully understand how anyone has been able to put up with it for this long.
I’m currently sitting at my desk, at home, waiting for a massive Exchange database to copy, so [...]
I picked up Franklin Foer’s book How Soccer Explains the World at Porter Square Books the other day, and have been enjoying it quite a bit. It’s not a comprehensive study of globalization, but it does manage to collect a whole bunch of wonderful stories and anecdotes about the ways that globalization is changing [...]
Gee, how fun.
I started to put together a little map of my family’s place on the Cheat Lake, right on the Pennsylvania/West Virginia border south of Pittsburgh.
It’s at http://tallape.org/maps/cheatlake.php, but be forewarned that it’s possible that I’ll break it or something…
Wandering back home by way of Porter Square today, I stopped off at Porter Square Books and discovered the paperback edition of Beth Hensperger’s The Bread Bible. Taz owned the hardcover edition, and I fell in love with it when he and I were roomies. Having to let it go when he moved [...]
Hanging out at the apartment this weekend, on call. Good for my knee, a little bit annoying. The BUDA Summer Club tourney was going on this weekend, and a couple of teams were hoping that I’d pick up with them. Would have been nice, but…
We had a site build (at work) last [...]
A couple of days ago, someone on the suse-linux-e mailing list mentioned that the Indiana Public Schools are going to start installing computers running linux (SuSE, of course, which is why it showed up there).
This led to the requisite jokes about Linux being necessary because Windows couldn’t deal with the multiple time zones, partital lack [...]
Peter pointed out in a comment on the post “Who are you?” that Michael Green has scooped me with the whole google map of visitors idea.
He stumbled across gVisit, which does basically the same thing that I was trying to do with jVisitors, but does it 1) somewhere else and 2) in a way that [...]
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How Semantics Got His Name and other West African Tales: Adventures in Accra, Pt. II
Hi, all.
Installment #2.
My newspaper, the Vision, has finally come out with the first edition
since I’ve been here, so today I’ve actually got some time to sit down
and write.
I’ve roped one of the other [...]
hostip.info is a (free!) site that geolocates IP addresses to city, and in many cases to Google-map-able latitude and longitude points as well.
Total sweetness.
The database of IP addresses and their mappings is available for (free!) download, and they’ve got an API that allows for nice and easy calls (for example: http://www.hostip.info/api/get.html?ip=216.164.95.194&position=true). Very slick, very [...]
Peter (not Wilson, another Peter), who has the coolest sideburns in Boston, has some good stuff on The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday. (Which despite it’s Phish-inspired name doesn’t actually talk about Phish, to my knowledge.)
If you want to know what band everyone’s going to be talking about 6 months from now, it’s a [...]
The New York Times editorializes today on the imprisonment of Judith Miller. For those who may have forgotten, Miller is a Times reporter who refused to name her sources to a Grand Jury investigating the naming of Valarie Plame as a CIA operative. She has been in jail for 41 days so far, [...]
Those in Boston over the past couple of weeks may have noticed me having more free time than usual, and possibly will have noticed a bit of a limp and kind of a pained look on my face a lot of the time.
After 2 weeks with a very swollen knee, I went to see the [...]
This morning’s schedule is basically work, spaghetti sauce (cooking, that is), laundry, work, stir pot, work, switch laundry, stir pot, work, repeat.
The spaghetti sauce is for a Summer Hat team party thing tonight, before the tournament tomorrow. Anywhere from 13 to 20 people expected, so I’m making enough for 20 just in [...]
Played with the theme of this page a little bit, mostly figuring out a way to have something other than a static image at the top.
I put up a page — things-ive-changed-about-wordpress-or-rin — to document the mods.
Okay, this is a geek post. Like, seriously.
My ISP — RCN — has been having some issues resolving some domain names lately. Chief among these, at least in annoyance factor to me, is the one that you’re currently looking at. For some reason, tallape.org just doesn’t exist on the internet if you [...]
Today marked the launch of the OpenSuSE portal. It’s existence marks a change in Novell’s business model for the SuSE distribution, following in the footsteps of RedHat with their Fedora Project.
The old model had significant shared features with a “normal” software distribution project. It revolved around a smallish group of people employed by [...]
It’s so easy. It’s so very, very easy.
But this is genius:
http://www.xroadsfilms.com/batescomedycentral/.
Went to the Lizard Lounge with some folks from work last night. Heard Jabe play, and had some yummy Lagunitas IPA.
For some unremembered reason, I brought home a Lagunitas coaster, just one of the normal cardboard ones like you get at bars. Looking at it now, though, this is what’s written in small [...]