My most recent blather that I don't want to show up on my main blog.

switched to bitlbee this morning, to reduce my laptop's bandwidth footprint (no more expensive xmpp, twitter, identica traffic)
Posted late Wednesday morning, September 1st, 2010
my nslu2 is now functioning as a wireless router. Using an old USB dongle and Ad-Hoc wifie mode. Who needs Managed mode :)
Posted Tuesday afternoon, August 31st, 2010
powering my nslu2 by a cable that is nslu2 plug on one end, USB on the other. yay for 5 volt powered computers
Posted Tuesday afternoon, August 31st, 2010
was in a very write-y mood this morning. Seem to have made the most of it <yawn>
Posted Tuesday afternoon, August 31st, 2010
brilliant game http://swarmation.com/
Posted late Tuesday morning, August 31st, 2010
surpisingly, found only one bug installing to the nslu2. OOM issue, fixed.
Posted in the wee hours of Monday night, August 31st, 2010
now doing a little bit of testing of # squeeze d-i on the nslu2
Posted late Monday evening, August 30th, 2010
began building my server for the solar powered house, a nslu2. grabbed random memory stick from drawer for its drive, got lucky: 64 gb
Posted late Monday evening, August 30th, 2010
wishing that family members could comprehend that I actually *do* work, About 12 hours a day. Sigh.
Posted Monday evening, August 30th, 2010
added a vcs-home friendly "fixups" hook to # also generic pre_<action> and post_<action> hooks
Posted Sunday afternoon, August 29th, 2010
good to be back in the mountians and at the end of this crazy august
Posted late Saturday evening, August 28th, 2010
enjoying: flying multiple kites in train for 1st time; wifi on deck overlooking the sea
Posted Thursday afternoon, August 26th, 2010
well, it's *so* time for a long walk on the beach now
Posted late Saturday evening, August 21st, 2010
oh, crap, I just got horrible news
Posted late Saturday evening, August 21st, 2010
enjoying the sea breeze and full moon sparkle in the ocean from the deck of the beach house
Posted late Saturday evening, August 21st, 2010
fermented dates on the tree in South Carolina
Posted Friday evening, August 20th, 2010
packing, mowing, and driving. beach tomorrow!
Posted Friday afternoon, August 20th, 2010
funny thing; I've been gathering # for years, but have only just starting using them
Posted late Tuesday evening, August 17th, 2010
@nrg I like to tease these things out, but it will eventualy become clear on http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/ :)
Posted Tuesday afternoon, August 17th, 2010
conclusion: one trailing comma on a javascript list makes MSIE blow up. js != perl, oops
Posted at teatime on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
thank you # bisect for keeping the time I have to spend with MSIE to debug !ikiwiki openid login bug to an absolute minimum
Posted Tuesday afternoon, August 17th, 2010
feeling habits and code that have long been dormant unfolding & flowering to life and rereading http://ur1.ca/15p4z
Posted late Monday afternoon, August 16th, 2010
online using dialup. first time in 5 years at least. also using solar power to get online here
Posted Monday afternoon, August 16th, 2010
shopping for usb modems (POTS) that work with linux. This seems likely http://ur1.ca/14w9x #
Posted late Friday night, August 14th, 2010

I happened to be wearing my old LinuxCabal T-shirt when I ran across this video.

Wow, memories.

Posted Saturday afternoon, January 12th, 2008 Tags: foo

of the season..

Posted at lunch time on Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Tags: foo

First try at learning blues harmonica. So far I'm concentrating on learning to play single holes. Hard enough for now, although I think I managed to bend a note once.

I have found my happy sound though. Just draw through hole #1 on my C harp and I get that nice lonesome train sound. This is the easiest hole to draw, too.

Posted late Wednesday afternoon, November 14th, 2007 Tags: foo ?harmonica

Weird popcorn experience. I screwed up the first pan, burnt and mispopped everything. So I cleaned it out and put it back on the stove, still quite wet, tossed in a small amount of (olive) oil and popcorn (no test kernels, just all at once), and tried again. This time the corn took quite a while to start to pop, I could hear the water/oil mixture sizzling and splattering the inside of the pan. When it started to pop, it was all over in under 5 seconds, no trail off of slow to pop kernels like I typically get. And only 2 kernels didn't pop. Perfect.

Something went on with that water/oil mixture. My guess is that the water regulated the temperature, as long as the water was in there everything was kept right around the boiling point. When the last water evaporated, the temperature must have shot up to popping point very uniformly and quickly.

Posted Monday night, October 29th, 2007 Tags: foo

With a full moon behind the blue clouds. Gorgeous tonight! And windy, and brr..

Posted in the wee hours of Wednesday night, October 25th, 2007 Tags: foo

Black bean soup and garlic shrimp home cookin'.

Posted late Wednesday evening, October 3rd, 2007 Tags: foo

Driving up Diablo, we're always in awe of the bikers going up it. When we're not thinking they're insane. :-)

Seth biked up. Awesome, and happy b-day!

Posted late Friday night, September 29th, 2007 Tags: foo

Funny, I use vimoutliner just like Matther Palmer, and like him I also think that everyone should learn to program. If you don't know how to program, you can't truely use a computer. You can only fiddle with constructs someone else has made for you on a computer.

Somehow I doubt either of these ideas will catch on, but it's nice that I'm not alone in my heresies.

Posted late Friday night, September 29th, 2007 Tags: foo