personal

Over the past couple days, there have been numerous complaints about
my messages showing up blank in various people's inboxes, and I'm
trying to nail down why.  Here's what I suspect has happened:
GMail
started (at some unknown point) sending messages with a base-64 content
transfer encoding.  Mailing list software often appends a footer to
the bottom of the message, and [...]

Spike sent me this link to www.yubnub.org,
which endeavors to be a "command line for the web", as they put
it.  It's a pretty cool idea, really.  You create commands
that are implemented with web services, and then anyone can run your
commands via the shell.  Not sure if it has any real application,
but it's definitely an interesting use [...]

First some background: our primary office file server has been acting
up periodically for a while now, and recently has become much more
insistant.  All things considered, it'd done it's job remarkably
well, and without anything even approximating sufficient
hardware.  So after this morning's crash, we moved on getting a
new box to replace it.  The load is light (we [...]

I finally got my counter computer fully functional. The monitor still isn't hung, but it's all working now. The last step was to get a wireless card for it so I didn't have to run an Ethernet cable over from where our router is. For some stupid reason, it was cheaper to [...]

Amid the rush to get my presentation for the FB conference finished, I also started working on building me a little computer for the bar at our house. I'm planning to mount it inside a dead corner in the cabinets, and hang a monitor from the overhead cupboards, mounted with a super-slick fold-up hinge [...]