This month I will have gone without wearing a watch for one whole year. While that may sound like some sort of personal goal it was really an act of laziness.
It began when my watch band broke while biking to work. I managed to scoop up all the parts but have not gotten around to getting a new pin put in my watch band. In the ensuing time I found that I really didn’t need a watch.
I suppose I’ll take it in sometime this week, if only to have some nice jewelry to wear every now and then.
Let’s see:
Thursday: Conn Showcase
Friday: march and Zydecopious at Seaboard Music
Saturday: Sailing at Lake Gaston, Halloween, and hanging out with our cool neighbors.
Sunday: cleaning, lounging, MythTV-fixing, game-playing, bread-making, Trader Joe’s-shopping
That’s a pretty full four days! As for this week, tonight I go to a Parks and Rec committee meeting and that’s all there is on my schedule for the week. Next week I have a Mordecai meeting and the following week I have my East CAC, Raleigh CAC, and Parks Board meetings.
Hip hop, ya don’t stop.
For the past few weeks I’ve been puzzled by the significant load shown on my MythTV backend generated by the kdvb-fe-0 process. The server was running at 50% load or higher even when there was nothing being recorded.
I poked around and found that the kdvb-fe-0 process is created by the Linux DVB drivers, which is the driver used for my TV capture card. Because this driver is running so close to the kernel I am not quite sure how to troubleshoot it. The software tools I would normally use may not work at this level.
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Today is the anniversary of the deadliest, bloodiest, most devastating military invasion that never happened. It is the day during World War II that Allied forces were to invade Kyushu in the start of a full-scale invasion of Japan – an invasion that would have cost untold millions of lives on both sides.
Fortunately, it never took place.
Raleigh’s Trader Joe’s store opened this morning at 9 AM. What a great store! I hope to check it out this weekend.
It was on this day in 1969 that the first message was sent between computers on the ARPANET. ARPANET was the precursor to today’s Internet. Who back then could’ve imagined all the junk that would one day clog it?
Check out Cathy Davidson’s piece in Cosmos Magazine to put the impact of this truly amazing resource in perspective.
(hat tip Paul Jones)
Damn it. My friend Ron sent me pictures yesterday from his home on Orcas Island. Now I can’t stop thinking about the place!
Oh, to have more vacation time and more money.
Earlier this week I banned MSN’s msnbot from spidering my website. I did this with an entry in the robots.txt file:
User-Agent: msnbot
Disallow: /
I checked with MSN’s robots.txt verifier to make sure this would keep msnbot from spidering my site. The only problem is that I also blocked the MSN IP addresses. Thus msnbot couldn’t fetch robots.txt to tell it was no longer wanted.
So, I unblocked the IPs and allowed msnbot to grab the robots.txt file, which it did repeatedly (this is a small sample):
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Career success can be judged by how few keys one carries. The more successful one is, the fewer keys one must carry around.
Take the President of the United States, for instance. Do you think he or she carries any keys? How about fat cat CEOs? Think they do any driving? Heck, no! They’ve got people for that.
The low man on the totem pole is always the poor schmuck with the mountain of tin hanging from his belt loop.
Inaugural Trams (YouTube) (download from Mediafire)
Super Furry Animals
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I will design a town in the image of your face.
Round the wrinkles of your eyes my footsteps you can trace.
We could promenade down infranasal depression.
The streets of your hands will never feel a recession.
It’s a secular day and it will be even better tomorrow.
It’s the first day of the integrated transport hub,
Let us celebrate this monument to progress.
We have reduced emissions by seventy-five percent.
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