The Moscow theatre seige, another suicide bomber in the West Bank, the sniper here in the US: I’m sick of all of it. I’ve made the mistake of following the news of late, and it’s dragging me down. I’m speechless. I just wish it would all end. I wish people would find a way to [...]
If you run MySQL (and you should, you know), check out MyCC, it’s a nice graphical front end. Even if you’re like me and prefer to do most of your SQL work from the command line, MyCC still comes in handy for checking out the structure of databases. It’s still in alpha, but it’s really [...]
Postmodernists on Jerry Springer had me
laughing out loud. And for the bass players in the crowd, playthebass.com has some great desktop pics and some nice staff paper and neck diagram PDFs worth printing out.
Yesterday, former president Bill Clinton gave a speech here in Fayetteville as part of a statue dedication ceremony in honor of former senator J. William Fulbright. It was quite a moving speech, actually, even for those of us who have grown fairly cynical about politics in general. I haven’t found a full text to link [...]
Looks like Coudal is back (warning: longest pageload ever), after being offline for quite a while. Saw The Devil’s Backbone last night–a really scarry very beautifully shot Spanish ghost/horror film. I never have very high expectations of horror flicks in terms of cinematography, but this one takes no prisoners.
Steve links a great story about Bruce [...]
Learning Java? Try these great tutorials at IBM DeveloperWorks. Also check out the Java Glossary.
Not a one-termer
Congratulations to former US President Jimmy Carter on winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Some people are given an opportunity to do large-scale good in the world. And it’s refreshing when they do.
Running OS X (10.1)? Sick of that tcsh shell? install bash like a real Linux geek and never look back (if you’re running 10.2, it’s already there). The instructions tell you how to set up bash as your default shell, but if you just install it in the root directory (”/”), you can always invoke [...]
The Phrase Finder is a nice site for finding the meanings and origins of common phrases.
File under “20 GOTO 10″
The Online Software Museum lets you learn about and even log in and play with a nice set of really old operating systems: CP/M, RDOS, Altair BASIC, and Unix 7th Edition. The author has even included little mini-faqs to get your feet wet in the operating systems of yesteryear (ah, takes [...]