Things That Fell Out of My Head

Just testing Livejournal's PalmOS app

I was duplicating some hard drives and then moving them around from where Linux expected them to be, and this rescue/boot/educational CD came in very handy: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/

zomg I'm setting up my new MacBook Pro using the VoiceOver option. It's so calm and soothing! I could do this with my eyes closed. In fact, I am.

This is my first ever Apple computer. So far, I am rating it 10 out of 10 for Out of Box Experience! On first boot it played a music video at me and I *didn't mind!* It was actually pretty swank.

NEGATIVLAND
Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 9:30p
Auditorium 1

Live in concert at
Alamo Drafthouse At The Ritz
320 East 6th Street
Austin TX 78701

http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=5205

You know those experiments they do where you wear these goggles for a while that make everything look upside down?

now with kittens!

Unfortunately, it'll cost you ~$32 to read the findings on how best to construct said goggles.

Palm releases Centro GSM smart phone for AT&T

And in a new color. This one's "glacier white"
http://www.macworld.com/article/132141/2008/02/centro.html

The whole Microsoft-pursuing-Yahoo idea seems absurd to me. From the perspective of an end-user and armchair economist, I mean.

From an end-user perspective, Microsoft would, based on past experiences, assimilate Yahoo's features and make them harder to find and cumbersome to use. (And require a "Passport" -- with all that implies.)

From an armchair economist perspective, I'm getting tired of seeing mergers where two companies combine to form one company that promptly ends up being valued about the same as it was pre-merger. Microsoft bear hug, Yahoo *squish*. No matter what premium they pay.

I agree with some of the analysts in the papers who have implied that the real significance of this is that Microsoft contains a current or incipient empty space that's Yahoo-sized.

EDIT: forgot to include the humorous link that was the reason I felt like posting this in the first place: http://daringfireball.net/2008/02/yahoo_translation

Until now, the Palm Centro has only been available with CDMA technology from Sprint. (I HAS HAD WAN 4 WHILE NAO AN IT GUD.)

Palm UK today announced the GSM Centro release in Europe on February 14th.

Palm says to expect the Centro smartphone rolled out on a second carrier in the USA prior to the end of February.
There are rumors that that would be AT&T.

I just bought tickets to see They Might Be Giants at Stubb's BBQ on March 5.

Urinalysis, Mr. Spock?

OMG.

He gave the address of a sewage treatment plant:

http://www.water.org.uk/home/resources-and-links/links/water-operators/sewerage-operators#Anchor-Northumbrian-47857

Abbey Road
Pity Me
Durham DH1 5FJ
http://www.nwl.co.uk
(that's Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland)

He's also running a work-from home scam at that same phone number:
http://www.getjob.us/usa-jobs-view/job-posting-11277.html

There, he gives his name as "John Mark".
john = client of a prostitute
mark = the victim of a confidence game or magic trick

Trip



On Saturday, 2007-12-22 22:07:22, patrick wrote:
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marvin Wolfthal
>
> Goodday over there, As i was browsing through internet i saw your
> apartment advertised on http://austin.craigslist.org and am
> interested in renting it.I will be signing a one year lease for it and
> want to know the modalities for renting it.
>
> I will be doing a one year research on pharmacy work while in the states
> and will be staying with my daughter LINDA
>
> I will be very GLAD if i can hear from you in time as i will want to
> conclude the rental process before we arrive in the State by January 25th
> . Abbey Road Pity Me Durham DH1 5FJ, United Kingdom.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dr Marvin Wolfthal
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So today I did heavy programming stuff in the X Window System (X Protocol Version 11) and SDL (particularly the event system) on Ubuntu Linux (in the GNU debugger), and some tinkering with development tools on Mac OS X 10.4.

I like my job. I get to do such random things.

I just got one of these:

I haven't even decided whether to participate in last year's NaNoWriMo!

seems like a rather unfortunate choice of name for a homeopathic medicine:

Check out this photo of someone holding 1GB of flash memory next to a much larger 1GB device from not all that long ago:

http://www.getflashmemory.info/a-blast-from-the-past-with-1gb/

when compiling a project in KDevelop, compiler errors (with the corresponding file and line number) appear in the 'Messages' window in red text. You can then conveniently click on them and the IDE will open that file and jump to that line with the error.

Very handy!

Except some of my KDevelop projects don't do this, and I can't tell why. You click, but nothing happens.

This seems to bring together a lot of things I knew individually to be true about money, but hadn't really considered all together:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279

I'd be interested in hearing any comments. The simplest things seem to inspire controversy -- people get labeled as crackpots even when they're just referring people to primary sources, definitions, and written laws. There's too much la la la I can't hear you in the world.

remotely testing (via ssh) the X configuration of a computer that's located in the next room, almost too far away to see, by running the 'xeyes' command and glancing over your shoulder to see it looking back at you.