I decided to build a new computer recently, and I thought I'd throw down some notes on the little tricks to getting Debian Etch running on it ( Read more... )

Apparently Richard Stallman is giving a talk in my building at 10am next wednesday. Wacky.

I asked some of my relatives what they might want for christmas and they indicated that a donation to charity would be nice.

I just realized that the EFF meets the charity requirement, and it is something that I care about.

Thought I'd point that out to anyone else looking for charities you can donate to.

Man, I was digging around for blackbox themes on freshmeat today and sooo many of them involve naked women. I want pretty worksafe themes. It is a shame that using a geeky window manager means that other geeky people use it and therefore very few people resembling decent graphic artists are making themes ( Read more... )

Funny Comic

At lunch today we were discussing the assignment of a ranking (1-10) to objects and we were trying to come up with a different system that might take into account more than a simple one dimensional scale. What we are wondering is whether, given the results of a number of queries to an individual of whether Object A is better than Object B for all ( Read more... )

Because you can't get on the southbound 805 down here....

hehe.

If you remove the @blahblah stuff it does something more reasonable.

I got this by searching for San Remo Dr, Corona, CA 92882
then using "To Here" from 92122.

Viola.

A Scanner Darkly was disappointing.

"You will have fortune as you desire" -- Panda Express * Panda Inn.

I love you.

"Years of treasured recollections dating all the way back to your childhood will be lost forever when a four-story fall exposes your photographic memory to daylight."