Category: sysadmin

unix-specific (or maybe networking) stuff

2blog folder catchup

As always, start out with things overheard:

Geeky things:

Political things:

Interesting things:

Funny things:

Did you know I have a superpower?

No, really — it’s true. I even use it for the forces of good!

What, I hear you plead, could J’s superpower possibly be?

Anything you give me, I can take it and make it worse.

Many folks wonder how useful this particular superpower is. Allow me to describe:  Someone walks into our office, supposedly to get something IT-ish done.  They listen to what we are talking about, and are so appalled that they either forget what they came in for, or are driven off.  Now, that’s not using it for good, but it is useful sometimes.

To use it for good requires more effort, to wit:  We are planning something — an upgrade, perhaps.  We talk about things that could go wrong, and how we should plan for them.  I take everything that could go wrong, and make it worse.  This makes the plan more robust.

Catching up.

As usual, starting with overheard things — it almost always cheers me up:

I’ve been doing many things involving streaming flv video files:

Some wordpress (and other geeky) stuff:

Funny and interesting things:

Catchup blogging for the new year…

(This is a big list)

All things overheard:

Now that you are in a good mood, here come the geeky things:

Now, let’s explore what grabbed my attention politically:

Parenting stuff:

Funny things:

And finally, just a few things that are interesting:

More catchup blogging…

Once again, we start with things overheard:

And continue with geeky things:

General interest:

Catching up more often, lately…

Blog catchup, yet again

Catchup blogging

  1. The Right Brain vs Left Brain test | PerthNow
  2. Self Improvement Tips » 10 Amazingly Simple Tricks To Turn Your Brain Into A Powerful Thinking Machine
  3. Shoot The Stupid
  4. Top 40 Demotivational Posters
  5. Twenty-five Signs You Have Grown Up : DivineCaroline
  6. Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age
  7. Hitch gets a makeover
  8. The lure of the straight razor
  9. Silver Tape – IMAGER.CC
  10. Scientific American: Searching for God in the Brain
  11. Unscrewed: The Ultimate Consumerist Guide To Fighting Back – Consumerist
  12. Dynamic Periodic Table
  13. Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Sleep Smarter and Better – Lifehacker
  14. Booting Linux from Flash – Oopsilon
  15. DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2007®
  16. Filthiest bill ever
  17. CrunchBang ~ 465 Free Fonts for Ubuntu
  18. TechBlog – How to: Upgrade any version of Ubuntu Desktop
  19. Flash-Based Galleries For Your Images | Graphics
  20. A Mock Columnist, Amok – New York Times

2blog folder catchup, yet again

The 2blog bookmarks list is full…

Time to core-dump again…

Catchup, yet again

catch up blogging

  1. 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
  2. Darker Matter – Exclusive Interview with Douglas Adams from 1979
  3. Odds of dying equal one.
  4. 26 Reasons What You Think is Right is Wrong
  5. 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
  6. Why Intelligent People Tend To Be Unhappy
  7. Is America Too Damn Religious?
  8. The Funny Pages :: Misc :: US World
  9. science vs. faith
  10. A celebration of spring turns ugly – The Boston Globe
  11. BreakingNews.ie | World News | Pakistan: 11 dead, 100 injured in kite flying festival
  12. Film’s View of Islam Stirs Anger on Campuses – New York Times
  13. MEMRI TV
  14. An Atheist’s Guide to Mohammedanism
  15. 5 Blogging Methods That Work » Net Business Blog
  16. Letterman’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists
  17. Most Awkward Interviews
  18. ZUG: Comedy Articles: GAY-OK!
  19. Daredevil condemned for escalator stunt | Oddly Enough | Reuters
  20. Keystroke the Carriers | Brand Name Coupons
  21. Who Is Monitoring Your Domain Searches? » Daily Domainer
  22. In the Company of Jerkoffs – 10 Zen Monkeys
  23. SEC Suspends Trade On 35 Companies In Pump-And-Dump Crackdown — Spam — InformationWeek
  24. BSFW: Penis owner’s manual
  25. DNSFW: The jerk at work