Today I stumbled across a link to Dennis Kuschel's MyCPU project.
I love the fact that this guy built his own freaking 8-bit computer that has a DOS-like operating system, disk and programming tools, networking, and a web server. He used what I take to be only parts that ...
So today is International Workers' Day. Workers of the world... I don't know. It would be nice to do something that helped common folk at least earn a living wage... <!-- SUMMARY_END -->
Money quote from this Financial Times article:
Thom Yorke warned apocalyptically of its being “simply a matter of time – months rather than years – before the music business establishment completely folds”. His advice to young bands: “Don’t tie yourself to the sinking ship, because believe me, it’s sinking.”
Radiohead ...
I've just been reading that Hosni Mubarak has given up his position as President (dictator) or Egypt. It looks like VP-spook-and-generally-bad-guy Omar Suleiman is not taking his place. The military leader who is taking control stopped and spoke to the crowd before going into the presidential palace. Egypt is ...
...is not that TV news in the U.S. sucks eggs. We knew that, and my little post didn't add anything to that story. There's this freakin' revolution happening right now in Egypt (and a mostly peaceful one at that), and all I could find to write about ...
Una and I have been keeping our eyes on the unfolding story of the protests in Egypt--we hope that the situation there doesn't get out of hand, and that the outcome is more freedom and tolerance, rather than a return to Mubarak's 30-year-old dictatorship or a descent into ...
I'm using the combination of Celery and django-celery with RabbitMQ to do background video transcoding of videos uploaded to a Django web site. I use Supervisord to keep my gunicorn processes running, and I wanted to use to keep Celery running too. Unfortunately, it didn't work out of ...
So we have this once-in-500-year astronomical event tonight. Lunar eclipse on the longest night of the year. But it's pouring rain here in sunny southern cali. Oh well. Next time. <!-- SUMMARY_END -->
I've been poking around some old web sites, stuff from back in the late 90s. Web design back then was a lot simpler but also more idiosyncratic. You had to hand-code stuff back then, and everybody had their own way of organizing their site (or failing to). Navbars were ...
The House Judiciary Committee is currently holding a hearing to explore legal attacks on WikiLeaks. I have a very bad feeling about what this might mean for the state of the First Ammendment in the U.S. EFF is tweeting the hearing. Gonna be hard to concentrate on my work ...