We got a couple Flip Video cameras in at work. We plan to use them to get some stuff for the web and various other things. One thing we’ll do sometime this week is write a review. That being said, Chris took one home to play with to get a feel for [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2008
What is with me this week?
5/16/2008 – 7:27 am
For the first time in about 11 years, I’m seriously considering using another nickname on IRC. I think we can actually blame twitter for this.
Random Observation
5/15/2008 – 7:09 am
When you’re listening to Nine Inch Nails and your speakers get GSM interference from your phone… It just fits in as part of the music.
Sunday fun
5/11/2008 – 6:11 pm
Shutdown
<install new/replacement disk>
fdisk
mkswap
umount /boot
dd
e2fsck && resize2fs
mount -o remount,ro /
dd
e2fsck && resize2fs
mount -o remount,rw /
pvcreate
vgextend
pvmove (wait a long long long time for 174 GB, especially with disk read errors, to move)
vgreduce
shutdown
remove old and busted, put new hotness in as primary disk
boot into rescue disk
mount / /usr
grub-install /dev/hda1
ms-sys -m /dev/hda
vi /etc/fstab
shutdown -r now
Party like its 1999 or, [...]
4 more years! 4 more years!
5/7/2008 – 10:16 am
Dinah is 4 years old today. She’s lived her toughest year to date having to adjust to a younger sibling who’s become mobile and takes her stuff now. Here’s a picture from her princess makeover and photo shoot at Disney World.
Yes, hopefully its a lot more than 4 more years, but the title [...]
New panic in the streets!
5/7/2008 – 9:50 am
I read this in the dead tree edition of the Tribune yesterday and forgot to make a post bitching about it. Luckily, Chicagoist was there: Congressman Says Second Life Could Expose Kids To Porn, Predators.
Basically, Mark Kirk got his panties all up in a bunch because Second Life have some adult stuff going [...]
Great syntax highlighting plugin for Wordpress
5/6/2008 – 9:38 am
At times, I think I spend more time writing about using wordpress than actually using it sometimes. I’ll need to fix that. Today, thanks to Wordpress’s dashboard, I came across the WP-Codebox plugin. THanks to GeSHI, it can color up a lot of languages and fixes some problems I’ve had with other [...]
For future reference….
5/5/2008 – 4:27 pm
And so Google knows this in the future…
16:23 <@spruance> what the hell is PFOTQ? even google does not know
PFOTQ stands for People Fucking On The Quad.
This post brought to you by the UIUC Quad Cam.
The best a man can get
5/1/2008 – 12:36 pm
Let me get this out at the beginning. I suck at shaving, I’m no good at it. Part of the reason is a lack of practice. Why do I have lack of practice? Because as a man-child, I cannot grow facial hair on a schedule that men do. [...]
