Quote of the day: Freaking the fuck out over anything you don’t immediately recognize is exactly what the terrorists want. #
How to manage a self-hosted WordPress blog from Windows
…or how I manage my self-hosted WordPress blog. Get webspace I use and recommend Dreamhost create a user account with ssh/sftp access associate a name with your webspace, e.g. somesubdomain.dreamhosters.com for free or somedomain.com if it’s available (at Dreamhost, one…
When inspiration strikes
One of my more productive times for writing is when I’m walking to the bus stop in the morning. This is unfortunate because it’s hard to write while I’m walking. So I take that time to run over thoughts and…
The (in)efficiency of cities
The simple beauty of the city can be expressed in miles per minute. The average person can walk a mile in 15-20 minutes. Thus anything (read: everything) within a mile and a half radius is reasonably accessible by foot without…
Found caught in the grate of a Sausalito storm drain
How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync
Back in September I revived my Mini-ITX box to serve as a backup server. I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since.…
Big Brother might be watching you
Eye-shaped peephole at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Geek Squad ads that actually make sense
I mean c’mon Ubuntu is WAY geekier than Windows Vista. Parodies created with The Gimp on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. MTBCAD?
15 seconds of fame
Woo! My How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync post made the top of Digg this morning! Disclaimer: I work for Federated Media, who provides advertising for Digg.
Neatlinks wordpressification
Since I started my neatlinks sidebar in January 2003, it has been powered by Blogger. I’ve wanted to incorporate it into WordPress forever, but as I’d constructed things (dynamically including the static files created by Blogger into WordPress) things just…
Before and after
The rainy season seemed like it was going to start finally last week. Monday afternoon, from the boardwalk around Gaylords (across from work) the light was eerily yellow-green: By Tuesday it looked like this: Today was beautiful, so temperate that…
Come work with me!
It must be a tight job market when the creator of PHP is trying to lure PHP developers to Yahoo, but if you’d rather work on a small team for an awesome startup supporting bloggers, Federated Media is also hiring…
I touched the largest organism ON EARTH!
…and lived to tell the story. General Sherman Triptych This past weekend Stephanie and I ventured out to Sequoia National Park on one of our trademark spontaneous adventures. We’d been talking about taking advantage of the three day weekend to…
me and the sherm
Stephanie deserves all the credit for taking this incredible photo of me and General Sherman. I was walking around on the sturdy wooden fence that encircled the tree, trying to take a picture from the best vantage, when Stephanie took…
Snowshoeing Sequoia
Before my close encounter with the sherminator Sunday afternoon, we were wandering around the Giant Forest museum, our first stop in the park. Stephanie asked if it was possible for us to squeeze into a ranger-led snowshoeing tour, something she’d…
Panorama Tools
Whoa, I just got lost in the world of panorama photo stitching tonight. In fact I had no idea until reading the comments to Andrew Emond’s Raider of the Lost Ark photo a month ago that software even existed to…
Commute collage
Sausalito sea birds, Golden Gate Bridge in fog, Golden Gate sunset, San Francisco reflecting the sunset
Lasagna on Saturday
Saturday for me today meant sleeping in. During the week I’ve been staying up late, working on projects and blog posts, and of course it’s eating into my sleep. I think I haven’t really absorbed the fact that my walk+bus…
Lemon Cove
One of my favorite parts about choosing to visit arbitrary destinations spontaneously are all the little unexpected things I discover along the way. On the way home from Sequoia National Park last Monday we drove through the aptly named town…
Hail attacks San Francisco!
It started with a flash. Was that lightning, or any one of a hundred things that could be flashing on Pine Street below us? Stephanie’s ear piqued: thunder! A little later, thunder again. Then it started pouring, then we realized…
Finally, a stricter notion of war is taking hold on this side of the ocean:
Judge Motz asked, for instance, about the broader implications of the government’s position that the United States is at war with Al Qaeda and that people affiliated with it may be subject to military detention rather than criminal prosecution. “Nations have wars against each other,” Judge Motz said. “People have quarrels or fights. Individuals can be terrorists. Individuals don’t make war.” #
Totally cool looking trailer: Sunshine (from a very cool director) #
Totally useful resource: Trailers soundtracks #
Word I didn’t even know existed! contumeliously #
Oh my god amazing: What hands can do #
Quote of the day: Yup, three mentos sitting on a stick, just waiting for the diet coke. #
Updated: The Random Image Plugin for WordPress and WordPress Suicide have both been updated for WordPress 2.1. #
Awesomeness: Skymall Liberation (I didn’t even realize at first they did this in flight!) #
And today’s completely awkward word of the day is: Ascertainment #
Holy moley, Tuna are big! (Andy’s in Japan) #
Fuck YEAH! Stick it to the man: I will be contacting your VP of Customer Service, Barbara Trinko, and complaining about the level of service you have provided with me today. Then I will call back tomorrow, and every day after that until you decide to change your mind. I will also offer you updates on the complaints I will be filing after I get off the phone with you.” #
News of the insane: Her arrest may be the first-ever felony charges filed on an active-duty astronaut, according to the space agency. #
Less common yo-mama insult: The flesh of your mother sticks between my teeth #
Two related and interesting links: Software development is a knowledge acquisition activity, not a manufacturing activity and the common case for wanting to rewrite is to understand #
This is neat: Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, but maybe a little too hip-faux-academic. #
FM in the press: Bigger Bucks For The Blogosphere #
Such a poignant summary of Gavin Newsom’s social life: Newsom could be seen many nights in the Balboa Cafe in the Marina…If not the Balboa then La Barca on Lombard Street…And there was nearby Rose’s Cafe on Union Street as well as Panne E Vino…Occasionally, he would drop in at Tosca’s in North Beach…and around the corner at a disco called Impala. And yet how sad that his personal life is reported as news. #
Dude’s wearing a shirt and tie! Bar pilot has a 70-foot margin of error as he guides 1,131-foot-long liner through bay to dock at Pier 27 #
Photo of the day:
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Check out Stephanie’s new blog soleilisme and read about her dad becoming an American #
Quote of the day, from Steve Jobs picking a fight in a dramatic way: Though the big four music companies, [Universal, Sony BMG, Warner and EMI], require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That’s right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.
Cory Doctorow adds: I look forward to the day when the iTunes Music Store catalog shows a little warning icon next to those few holdout tracks sold with DRM, a skull-and-crossbones to tell you that you’re about to buy some poisonous bits. #
Ubuntuy, Linuxy, Gnomey thing to check out: Devil’s Pie #
No duh: U.S. Defense Department officials prepared pre-war intelligence reports that may have exaggerated links between Iraq and al-Qaeda, the Pentagon inspector general said today. #
Stephanie last night, as a pirate: Arrrrr! (there’s a video with a choreographed fight!) #
This is neat: 4GB Industrial Grade 40-Pin LP DOM with Lockable Housing, 5v #
Freaking amazing: WhatTheFont (upload an image of a font and it tells you what it is!) #
Font resource: PCFONTY.CZ #
Peter Acworth of kink.com responds:
On MSN: The Three Biggest Internet Threats of 2007 #1? Internet Explorer (the perils of syndication) #
OMG: The man who fell 12,000 ft … and survived (there’s a video!) #
Whoa: Santa Rosa TV station KFTY TV50 fires news staff, to ask local folks to provide programming (this is the same station that interviewed me about getting a cease-and-desist for a parody on my blog) #
Googe?
More info: Google’s Obscure Literary Reference for Valentine’s Day? #
Those are not dogs, they are BEARS! Backyard Play Area for the Kids #
I saw “church” and “primates” and thought “Kansas”: Primates consider ‘parallel’ Church #
Horse in car:
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This is amazing: Worlds First Wheelchair Backflip! #
God speaking: Honestly, we hacked most of it together with Perl. #
I want, I want! Small Homes
More here: Modern Cabana #
Heh: A USB enclosure for hard disks that looks like a hard disk! #
Something I want to read later: REST and WS-* #
Congratulations to my dad for completing his 5th marathon #
I want: Nelson Swag Leg Desk (just not for $1700) #
Ha! Dell created a digg-a-like, and what do the people want? Pre-Installed Linux #
Awesome: Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix #
I felt my very first earthquake! It was kind of like a large truck turned on its engine in the parking garage below me. Lasted for less than a second. Cool. #
Several references in popular culture led me to look up Miracle Mile and discover this:
I had no idea mounting an NTFS partition from Ubuntu was SO HARD! Annoying. #
Gotta love xkcd: Excuse me, you’re jiggling your leg up and down… #
Ha! Bilingual pun: The soufflé that blew! #
Quote of the day:
I can hear screams coming from the ivory towers where the validatorians and standardistas live. I like those screams. I live for those screams. (on swfIR) #
Another quote of the day: that decline can be transmitted to other parts of the world through the psychology #
To take tomorrow: PHP Syntax Exam #