Jeez, Kurt Vonnegut then Uncle Walt and now George Carlin has bit the dust too. One of the side effects of getting old is having people close to you go away at a greater rate, hurts sometimes but the cycle of life on this planet has been going on for quite a while and most likely will continue long after the humans have left.
With all the deer on this island, if the “big one” hit the fan there would be venison to eat for at least a few days. Can’t help but think that the city slickers around these parts though would be getting up to trying the same thing as this West Virginian did: “it looked good on paper”!
Phil 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.
A 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.
Read an editorial from a sane parent that has not succumbed to the constant drum beat of fear fed hourly onto the psyche of the North American people. Quite an amazing thing really to have MSNBC pick this up with an interview (video) and article, Mom isn’t about to cave in to the “expert” at the interview and refreshing TV for a change, they should be doing a lot more of that.
