Monthly Archives: January 2005

Something that only excites a parent

One of the things that only excites a parent is the quality of a baby’s bowel movement. Especially when the bowel movement quality has returned to normal after a week.
This shouldn’t really be news to anyone, but its something that has been stuck in my head for about 13 hours. I think its [...]

Backup MX

Here’s a question I’ve been pondering over and over…. In these days of spam going right to backup MXs, all sending hosts retrying over some number of days….
Is having a Backup MX record worth it these days?
Discuss in comments…..

Complete this sentence

The game of the day is:
In the comment section of my blog, complete this sentence:
“If my feet had balls….”

Peep!

My friend Benjy and his friend Jp have created the awesome peep protocol that I think everyone who instant messages or SMSs should adopt.
I think its brilliant and I find myself often wanting to use such a thing. From now on, I’m all about it.

PS2: Now with hard driving goodness

A few years ago Sony released a Linux for Playstation2 kit. The kit included a Redhat install tailed for the PS2, USB keyboard and mouse, ethernet adaptor, VGA adaptor, and 40GB hard drive. This was at least a year before the hard drive came with Final Fantasy XI.
I played with Linux on it [...]

I’m sorry, Keith, I’m afraid I can’t do that. (FC3, HAL, and iPod)

I updated my desktop to Fedora Core 3 over the weekend. Technically, Fedora would consider it a fresh install, I just kept /home /work /usr/local and /opt. It all went smoothly thanks to my love of apt for rpm and the various repositories that I’ve talked about before that I use to keep me [...]

Don’t you find me young and sexy anymore?

Beer Losing Ground in Beverage Market
“Our wholesaler contacts have told us through a survey we conducted recently that beer has lost its ’sexiness’ and ‘appeal to young consumers’”

Free as in Freedom AND in Beer

Vores Ol combines two of my favorite things: beer and open source. Mmm…Beer.

I’m sooooo nerdy

Is this really that shocking? Didn’t think so.
Jesse, who’s blog pointed out the quiz to me, was only 54%.

I’ve got a match your ass and….my t-shirt?

This has to be the coolest clothing reuse I’ve seen in a long time. You can turn a t-shirt into panties or boxers with the patterns at that site. Maybe its time for geek t-shirts to underwear as gifts for the wife! Er…maybe not.
Thanks to Boing Boing for bringing it to my [...]