Every LJ account comes with a (XMPP) chat account, which I just added to Pidgin to see if anyone else uses it. It appears nobody does BUT you're automatically made friends with Frank the goat, who appears to be an XMPP bot that makes posts to your LJ on your behalf. This is a totally useless feature.

Edit: I sucked in crassy, aww yeah. Get on the LJ ( Read more... )

As the title suggests, I've built a .deb (and done some rudimentary testing) of zfs-fuse 0.6.9 on Itanium Debian 6.0.5.

The rationale for this was:

1. I couldn't get FreeBSD to install on my zx6000, but Debian was no problem (I think this may be because Debian supports VGA console whereas FreeBSD doesn't, but I couldn't get serial working on my zx6000 ( Read more... )

The man without a memory. He has no memory of the past and also cannot form memories. For all intents and purposes, he's not conscious, is he, in the literal sense of the word? I've always wondered how I would be without any self-consciousness. How much of who I am is because I remember who I'm supposed to be? I've absolutely no idea, but he seems ( Read more... )

Marla Kishimoto: they're not bad, but they're not really good enough to merit the sparkly dresses

There's a story on Slashdot about using sodium chloride to improve hard drive density. For the past couple minutes I've been imagining biting into a hard drive platter and my teeth breaking and shattering. My teeth are really uncomfortable now and it's freaking me out.

I'm not the first person to have pumpkin pie with cranberry sauce, right? Either Jasna or my brother brought it up at Thanksgiving yesterday (as a joke?) and it turned out to be amazing, so I did the same at lunch at work today and people thought I was some sort of crazy pioneer. Admittedly I've never seen anyone else try it before, but it seems ( Read more... )

When having an important phone conversation, the sort where you have to take notes, I end up writing notes on the stuff I say. Many times I've even written down my own name or phone number as I'm reading it out.

Every month or so I like to go to YouTube and watch this video and then this video just for the juxtaposition. Fred Durst is awesome ( Read more... )

I'm just watching the highlights from a CFL game over the weekend. Says Glen Suitor, the colour commentator:Marcus Thigpen is like butter: he's smooth; he...can accelerate, show great patience.

After spending about 20 minutes this morning shuttling money around, I decided to make a $20 donation to the GnuCash project. GnuCash is free software and is still definitely head and shoulders above any other financial software I've used. It's the only decent consumer-grade financial software package that enforces double-entry accounting practices ( Read more... )