2008 Two hundred and ninety-two posts

• 24-Nov-2008

  
  Moved, Worn Out, Ready For Action The move was completed without too much fuss. Upcoming: Job interviews, more box extraction and home setup, Thanksgiving, seeing my folks, and a memorial for a dear friends wife. The Universe may be speaking to us. I wish it spoke more clearly, but hey, it’s the Universe. Size of the entire universe man, usually kind...

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• 20-Nov-2008

  
  Moving It’s all about boxes. Moving today. Moving. Oi. I think we need it. To top it off, we’re waiting on 5 weeks worth of checks. I hate that. Wish us luck.

  moorparkmoving
• 19-Nov-2008
  The Reluctant Sysadmin This morning I had a compile that was hanging and/or calling itself. This made the server, and more importantly, the “yes people use it” webserver unresponsive. This was not fun. Here are the tools I used to kill the processes: ps -aux | grep -i make | awk '{print $2}' ps -aux | grep -i...

  linuxsysadminunix
• 19-Nov-2008

  
  Penguin Project: Go on an adventure in Antarctica! My friend Pinguino is going on a trip to Antarctica and is inviting cool folks to go with her, check it out! Here’s more info: You could party in Vegas, Ibiza, Rio, Bangkok, Sydney, or even Marrakesh. But one continent remains overlooked when it comes to having a good time. That’s right, we’re talking about...

  antarcticapinguinotravel
• 18-Nov-2008
  I Like The Way You Move Actually, I like the way Leah hustles to find us a place to move to. Same difference. We found a new place, slightly less money, again on this side of Moorpark, very much within target range of the kids, a very humane home. Leah found this one and did the legwork all by herself. I...

  housingleahpeahmoorparkmoving
• 15-Nov-2008
  Looking at the financial mess as the end of the excesses of the 1980s Michael Lewis’ story The End is an engaging, enraging read. It posits that the recent crash of Wall Street financial firms is the end of what he had seen working as a trader in the 1980s. He documented his experiences in the book Liar’s Poker. This followup is a must-read. Some excerpts: Now, obviously, Meredith...
• 15-Nov-2008
  Predicting the meltdown https://youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw Peter Schiff ends up prophetic, while everyone on the shows in this video treats him as a Cassandra. via Open Culture and Paul Kedrosky.

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• 15-Nov-2008
  LDS and Proposition 8 Some various responses to Proposition 8 of note. I’m sad at the rhetoric, I was sad about the proposition, and I feel The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have done themselves a disservice in this matter. Mormons Resigning Despite Strong Heritage, Citing ‘Hatred’ by LDS Church Mormons Stole Our Rights danah boyd has...

  lawreligionsex
• 14-Nov-2008
  Redesigning Drupal.org in the open Drupal.org, Design Iterations, and Designing in the open is a remarkable post by Mark Boulton about the process of redesigning a website–in this case drupal.org–with radical transparency. This is incredible and groundbreaking work, applying the modes of open source to design. Surprising that it has not devolved into design-by-committee.

  designtransparencywebdev
• 14-Nov-2008

  
  Handicraft Guide to Cartooning for Armed Forces Personnel What a great find from the ASIFA Hollywood Animation Archive. In 16 pages, it communicates a lot; though, the section on “racial symbols” makes me uncomfortable.

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