Fri, 04 Aug 2006
Siggraph 2006 Was Awesome
It was my first and I'm sold. I made a
list of links and
took some
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Sat, 14 Jan 2006
Your news is nothing, bitch!
Setphen Colbert ist die bomb. He actually got
an AP news wire item about
his fictional news show's fictionaly non-fictional content. Fiction in
non-fiction!? WTF!
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Wed, 02 Nov 2005
USB Flash Drive Benchmarks
I got a 1 gig USB flash drive called the Cruzer Micro, manufactured by Sandisk.
It's extremely tiny, about 2 inches long by 1/4 inch thick and it has some
pretty impressive read/write benchmarks with the default vfat filesystem:
Write 200M file
real 0m23.748s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m1.158s
Read 200M file
real 0m18.151s
user 0m0.035s
sys 0m1.594s
Unfortunately, it has the same
write
limitations as Compact Flash.
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Sun, 31 Jul 2005
Some open source streaming tools and information which may be hard to find
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Fri, 10 Dec 2004
One part of the open source community.
I guess
this one puts me on the map. For better or for worse.
The above press release is my third foray into a professional services limited company. The first two were fly by night dot coms and didn't leave many traces on the web. The first two times I was always in awe of the guys in the back room with the five workstations and three monitors and crazy graphical desktops I couldn't recognize even though I spent 8+ hours a day using a Macintosh and I was certian I knew how a GUI functioned. I was doing shitty front end programming and never touched the knowledge they lived in. One co-worker went on to write
a big inspiring weblog that gets
international acclaim. Andy is rad. He clued me into the wonders of Perl and Linux. I never knew what the fuck he was doing. Then there was Daniel Ceregatti, who was doing shit
I still can't even dream of. But the day Kick Media went bankrupt I knew I had to get to that back room.
It's funny what Google remembers about Kickmedia. Most of the entries are people who worked there who were posting to email lists or web forums. Everything else are broken links or old press releases.
The first foray into front end web programming was so unremarkable the company hardly even exists andymore except for an office in Hong Kong. They provide "web services" for email and name registration or something like that.
Fast forward to 2004. After some time spent doing technical work with a
print and video artist I ended up at
Democracy Now! as a full time unix sysadmin.
Openflows is an impressive organization. One part hosting company, one part technology consulting company, one part software development company, and above all open source philosophy evangelists.
Openflows Networks Ltd. is the company that put the Democracy Now! website on the map. The Ltd is defined
here as "Limited to any security or purpose." It's a distinction that's really important. The moral of the press release and the Openflows relationship is that building an Internet infrastructure is hard, and working with open source software to do it is also hard, but like
Larry Wall says about the Perl programming language, "easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible." It's a phrase that translates to so many things.
Working with UNIX systems and open source software isn't easy if you want to do hard things with what's readily available. It's still sinking in.
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Wed, 04 Aug 2004
Moral youth
I got to talking with my mates about this movie
Kids that I saw in 1995
cause I thought I was all hip reading the LA weekly when I was 16. It
was great. As I elaborated about the story of how I ended up watching a
movie called
The Thin Red
Line at Leo Fitzpatrick's house in 2000, we
all started thinking of his character in Kids, Telly. It took a while
until I could remember his big line where he's all like "I love virgins.
Call me the virgin surgeon." We were all, "ahhhhhwww shiiiiiit" And the
moment was over.
I remember how I idealized that movie when I was in high school. I knew
some of my friends acted just like those characters, I knew I tried my
damdest to act like them and probably failed. So it ends with any other
talk about an individual in a movie, searching the
Internet Movie Database.
Here's
Leo. He's not doing too bad acording to the page.
So then I thought I'd start reading the user reviews of the movie.
Among the suspected "these crazy kids ruining their generation" tomes
there was an
incredibly
sweet story of a guy who took the movie's realism to heart and
reflected. Here's his quote:
Im a teenager and i think that this movie was awesome.
If kids themselves would watch it they would understand the consept of
aids and other sexual diseases. after watching this movie it made myself
think about how much danger there really is out there. i just thought it
was a good movie because it is pretty much how life is out on the
streets these days. another thing is i have some friends that are just
like the devirginater in this movie and it made me think that maybe he
should get tested so that the people he has done s**t with will know
whether or not they have stds.cause most people dont get it and it never
clicks in their heads that they could be doing some damage to young
girls by sleeping around. thanks
You can't get more honest than that. I think Mr. Clark can rest
quietly tonight.
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Sun, 04 Apr 2004
The Arcade Fire is a band I saw play recently.
They are probably the best band I've seen perform in a long time. While writing about technology is something I can do, writing about music is a skill I don't think I have. As they say, writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I bought their CD after the show. It's not on a record label so here it is:
- Old Flame
- I'm Sleeping In A Submarine
- No Cars Go
- The Woodland National Anthem
- My heart is an apple
- Headlights Look Like Diamonds
- Forest Fire
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