There were two problems with my .zshrc snippet for screen/xterm integration.

1. if you ran a command with a zsh escape in it (like %s), your prompt was clobbered. Fix:

function title ( Read more... )

Two of these 24" bad boys on my desk makes me very happy.

At work, they stock a bunch of ergonomic keyboards and will reimburse the purchase of any keyboard you want (within reason; not sure what the exact limits are) - the same goes for mice too, of course.

One keyboard they stock got my attention: the Goldtouch Keyboard. It splits in the middle and has both vertical and horizontal split/raise ( Read more... )

Green Day concert tonight at SBC Park. Jimmy Eat World and Flogging Molly are opening - should be good! We had a big BBQ at work yesterday - the BBQ with Bobby Flay people were out to cover it. Ever been to a BBQ with grilled octopus?

( octopus )

Tomorrow marks the first day of the FreeBSD Kernel Internals class I'm attending, taught by McKusick (woo!) at Google (he teaches this class outside of google, but some people arranged for him to come once a week for a few months to do the course). I'm pretty excited. I've been reading the first couple chapters of his book in prep for the first

Bush sucks. Is it so much to ask that religion and government are separate?

I think this person says it best:

"Americans are free to pray or not to pray, but it is not the business of our U.S. president to direct citizens to pray."

In related news, I just registered (online!) to vote in CA (I guess I should really get a CA license sometime,

So, being pretty sick of losing shells inside screens and not being very happy with using C-a A to set relevant titles for each window in a screen (especially since I change what I'm doing so often), I decided to see what kind of automated zsh-screen interaction was best ( Read more... )

It's been a busy few weeks. On October 7th, I'm moving to San Jose (Bella Villagio). The place is awesome: 2 bedroom ~1050 sqft, great layout, balcony, hardwood floors in the kitchen, nice cabinets, nice kitchen counter tops, nice stove [hah], stainless steel appliances, etc. I managed to snag a 1st floor unit (I put down a deposit on the place ( Read more... )

This was confusing the crap out of me for a while, but I'm still pretty sure this is a bug ( Read more... )

Does anyone feel strongly about the bank they're with? I'd like free checking (minimum balance is OK), ATM reimbursement, good online banking (not some IE-only bullshit), good & free bill pay, "instant transfers" (i.e. it doesn't take 4 days for Paypal to transfer money from the account), etc.