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Monthly Archives: October 2009

nook

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

I’ve not yet been impressed by any of the e-book readers I’ve seen – with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader being the apparent “market leaders” in the segment. However, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook may change my mind. From the early reviews, it appears to have a better screen, longer battery life, and more natural [...]

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end6 must die

Friday, October 16, 2009

Have any of you seen end6.org? Apparently some web sites choose to redirect their viewers to end6.org rather than render in IE6. Yes – IE6 is old. Very old. But hundreds of thousands of us are stuck using it while at work due to bad IT policies, or upgrade paranoia. Taking me to end6 instead [...]

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shell scripting

Thursday, October 15, 2009

I’ve been playing around with bash scripting quite a bit recently in relation to my current job. Came up with one that’s really useful (imho) around chkconfig: # mass set all services known to chkconfig to be `on` or `off` at given level # written by warren myers – warren@warrenmyers.com # 28 sep 2009 echo [...]

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chips

Saturday, October 10, 2009

I like [some] Pringles potato crisps. For years I wondered why it is that when you remove the lining inside the cover it often likes to rip the inner lining of the cardboard case off with it, but it was a minor inconvenience (especially in the era [many moons ago] when I’d eat a whole [...]

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sriracha

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

How ironic. My favorite condiment at Vietnamese restaurants in the US is actually a Thai sauce. A sauce, may I add, that I have never seen in a Thai restaurant – anywhere. Sriracha is awesome – heat but not an astounding amount. And it still carries a lot of flavor, so it’s not just heat.

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bad math and the digital economy

Monday, October 5, 2009

I generally like reading Seth Godin’s blog. However, this post on the digital music economy isn’t very helpful, in my opinion. “A study last year conducted by members of PRS for Music, a nonprofit royalty collection agency, found that of the 13 million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single [...]

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nasa searching for new challenges

Sunday, October 4, 2009

I saw this in /. earlier in the week. Apparently NASA is turning to the American public for new challenge/contest ideas. I don’t know whether to be impressed that they’re trying to get new perspective.. or scared that they can’t come up with it on their own. There’s lots and lots of smart people at [...]

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29 starting

Friday, October 2, 2009

It’s after 23:23 Eastern time on the 2d of October 2009. This means I’ve completed my 28th year. This next one promises to be even more exciting

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