Okay, all you 1337 Linux haX0Rz out there, how do I teach my CentOS machines that the U.S. Gummint has screwed up daylight savings time this year?
Archive for October, 2007
Linux and time zones
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Whoops
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Have you ever seen an atom
Little bits of everything floating by
Take a good look at them
Collectively they compose all you see
including your eye
Brilliant puzzle
A living Rubix Cube we think we can figure out and solve
But we’re just monkeys
Scratching our heads trying to open our ears
To a chord that just won’t seem to resolve
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Guinness really IS good for you
Monday, October 29th, 2007Oh, I should also say that when I left the client site today my head was absolutely pounding. I was afraid that I might be following in Travis’s footsteps and on the verge of getting sick.
It turns out my headache was from my sinuses, which were having a tough time with the cold, dry air and the drop in pressure from the incoming front. A couple of tasty pints of Guinness later (and a visit with an old friend) and my pain was gone.
We Irish are a clever lot, now aren’t we? 
Twenty five year reunion
Monday, October 29th, 2007I had a bit of a twenty-five year reunion tonight here in Charlotte, where I’m working for the next day or two. Remember how I tracked down some old friends last month when their high school reunion was held? One of those old friend was my buddy Doug Yoch, who happens to live in Charlotte now. I wrote him an email this morning letting him know I was in town and tonight we met up for dinner and drinks.
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Travis gets sick for his birthday
Sunday, October 28th, 2007It seemed so out of place for a doctor to pronounce Travis healthy at his Friday checkup and for Travis to be in the emergency room the following night. That’s how it was here yesterday.
Fuji’s idea of customer service
Saturday, October 27th, 2007After hearing the doorbell ring yesterday I opened the door to find a long-awaited delivery: Kelly’s digital camera that had been sent in to Fuji to be repaired. It has been six weeks since she sent her Finepix F470 off to the factory and she had really been missing it. I put the box on her desk, letting her have the pleasure of opening it when she returned.
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Cheap Thoughts: Fear
Friday, October 26th, 2007What is the antidote to fear?
Understanding.
Only thing going up now is the cost of war
Friday, October 26th, 2007I was reading the headlines lately about China’s current space mission, where their satellite is set to begin orbiting the moon in a few weeks. Then today I read about Syria cleaning up the mysterious industrial site allegedly bombed by Israeli planes last month. The imagery included with that article reminded me of the great site Intrepid Earth, a showcase for the satellite imagery to be found on Google Earth.
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Facebook’s worth fifteen billion? I think not.
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Okay, that’s it. Money truly doesn’t mean anything anymore. Its all paper, worthless paper. I learned today that Microsoft just paid $240 million for a 1.6% share in Facebook.
Facebook, for crying out loud! And Microsoft’s quarter billion got them less than two percent of it!
I’m all for people being rewarded for their innovations, but Facebook is just another stupid social networking site. Where’s the lock-in? What’s to keep the next fad-du-jour from suddenly stealing their users? Remember Friendster? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Give it up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for hoodwinking Ballmer on this. He’s pulled off the con of the century.
Google query of blog spam sites
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Here’s only a quick extract of sites set up to blog-spam everybody. If any of the sites in this list try to add a trackback to your blog you should delete the trackback: its spam.
I’ve written their hosting provider, Liquidweb. Let’s see if they bother to do anything.