If you have waaaay too much time on their hands and you're handy with traceroute you may have noticed that I've moved my personal sites from SliceHost to Linode. SliceHost has been great and I still host all my work sites there, but Linode has a couple new ...
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Anarchitect
Just listened to FLOSS Weekly # 49 where they interviewed Peter Saint-Andre about Jabber/XMPP. He talks about being an "anarchitect" because he likes things really distributed. <!-- SUMMARY_END -->
southern cali fires
The big news this past week has been The Fires, namely a huge fire north of Pasadena in the Angeles National Forest. Biggest in 100 years, they're saying. Our place is far enough away from any wilderness that it's not a problem for us, aside from bad air ...
Kansai Time Out
Heard today the sad news that Kansai Time Out is publishing its final issue this month. n my previous life as a JET Programme English teacher in Nara prefecture, I carried a copy with me almost at all times. KTO wrote about local history, off-the-beaten-path places to visit, and all ...
R.I.P. iBrowse, we loved ya
Una and I had to get some work done this Sunday afternoon but didn't want to stay at home or go to either of our offices, so we packed up our laptops and headed off to iBrowse in Alhambra, one of our favorate coffee hangouts. We arrived to find ...
Solved: wacky Django translation errors
I've been seeing some really weird behavior on a multilingual Django site I'm finishing up. Most of the text would be fine, but form labels and help_text would display in the wrong language. They would all be in Japanese, no matter what language you viewed, for example, or ...
12in G4 PowerBooks can't boot from external USB drives
Last year I partitioned the drive of my aging G4 PowerBook (12in Aluminum) and set it up as a dual-boot Ubuntu/OSX system. I've been pretty happy with this arrangement, but I haven't been using OS X much, really only to do some music with Ableton Live (no ...
Django broken after Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade
I recently updated my personal laptop to Ubuntu 9.04. Everything went well during the upgrade, and it's all smooth sailing on the desktop afterwards. It's not an earth-shatteringly different upgrade but it's nice and solid.
The only problem is that it broke my local Django dev ...
Fight Internet Censorship With the Grass Mud Horse
A friend of mine called me recently and told me about a media phenomenon that was sweeping across China and sloshing across the Pacific to hit our shores. It's the "grass mud horse". (Actually, I think my friend may have said "gelassenheit mud horse", which is weird and not ...
Unthinkable Thoughts: How to think them and why you might want to
Read an awesome post this morning by Paul Graham this morning called What You Can't Say, which is about taboos and heresy. Graham is writing as a hacker and venture capitalist looking for to uncover potentially interesting and profitable ideas that are being overlooked because they go against the ...