Americans on the west coast are being questioned Gulag style, herded off the ferries into a waiting holding corral for questioning before being allowed to continue their journey in their own country.
Archive for April, 2008
Papers Please
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008CERN Day 3
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Phil is on his insider’s visit to CERN, very interesting stuff if you are into quantum physics at all. And a day or two later, Scobleizer has some video to go with it.
Good Readin’
Saturday, April 19th, 2008A flurry of posts again from someone haven’t heard much from lately, (2006-ish) and the forum for it has noticed the return of Dean as well. Used the Textpattern software as a blogging tool based on his text generator for a couple years myself, and later as a CMS for a local group until they wanted more extensibility and it was easier to switch them over to Website Baker, which they are still using.
Anyhoo, there’s some good stuff coming off his keyboard often and linkyness to go with it including this recent interesting shell command history meme:
mark-laptop:~$ history|awk ‘{print $2}’|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head
162 sudo
25 cd
13 kdesu
8 calc
7 emerald
4 wget
4 ls
4 locate
4 compiz
3 tar
With all the wonderful Compiz and Emerald GUI things happening, seems I still spend a fair amount of time on a terminal to root around this new machine. Reminds me that I wanted to redo the back-end of this blog too and get off the Wordpress wagon, and get back to some basics and hash over the pros and cons of using a relational database for the content or other means. Seem to recall the fastest way on Apache to stitch content together regardless of horsepower was using server side includes, so may start there and see where it takes me.