Geek Lit

damn, i really must be a geek, cause this story is just about the most amusing thing i've read in a while. gotta love it when a writer actually knows what he's talking about.

Grr, Argh

been meaning to post something here for a few days, but haven't quite gotten around to figuring out what to say.

i still haven't, so i don't know why i'm even writing this, other than to say "hello world, i'm still here".

Once More With Feeling

it looks like they're going to be releasing the soundtrack to 'Once More With Feeling' in september... very cool stuff, as it's damn good music, and the mp3's i've got of it kind of suck, having been transfered from the original TV broadcast and all.

Kitty Cat

went to the palisades mall last night to worship^H^H^Hsee the release of Jaguar and pick up a copy. mac people sure are fanatical... it was cool though, and i got a free t-shirt out of the deal. overall, i'm impressed with Jaguar. it seems nicer in general, and Subversion compiled right out of the box, which was very nice to see.

anyway, i'm off to take a shower and drive to MA for joe's bachelor party...

libpdel

saw a neat new port that was added to the freebsd ports tree today. it's a library of code for creating embedded applications on freebsd (and linux i believe). it looks to be frighteningly full featured, with a memory allocation system, a threaded http server that does ssl, and a bunch of other stuff i haven't begun to digest yet.

not that i really have a use for this, but it seems like something that would be good to remember, so i'm posting this here so i can find it later ;-)

Toy!

NetNewsWire is very cool, for those of you who are looking for an RSS aggregator for Mac OS X, it looks quite promising. It doesn't seem to work with the RSS that livejournal outputs, which is unfortunate, and it would be nice if it was open source so i could fix that problem, but other than that i think i'm in love...

Have We Made A Difference?

doc searls has some interesting things to say about lawrence lessig's recent speech at oscon.

At Work?

it's at times like this, at 10:50 on a saturday morning, when any sane individual should by all rights be at home either asleep or having a quiet morning around the house, that i wonder at what point in my life did i go wrong?

because i must have done something horrible to have ended up at work, waiting for idiots at first call to fix their network problems so that this feed will turn back on and i can stop worrying about it.

oh well, at least nobody is here, so i don't have to worry about how loud the music is.

btw, the new they might be giants album kicks ass.

It's Alive!

i finally found a second to burn a new iso for testing, and it seems tht the latest FreeBSD/ppc snapshot boots on my ibook. unfortunately, it doesn't seem to recognize my cdrom, so i can't mount the filesystem and play around, but still, this is big progress when you consider that the previous version simply died on boot.

here is some proof, courtesy of my digital camera.

I *heart* CafePress

you gotta love a website that makes jokes like this not only possible, but easy.

(you probably have to have been reading the subversion dev list lately to get the joke.)