Posts Tagged “culture”

25 Jan: Every Pop Song On the Radio

I dis­cov­ered a bit from Clay Shirky, talk­ing about how tele­vi­sion was the way post-griminess indus­trial soci­ety chose to cope with free time. Included was the bit that enough time is wasted watch­ing tele­vi­sion to pro­duce all of Wikipedia 2000 times over.

15 May: FIY

It’s prob­a­bly worth not­ing at this point that there are a few lessons to the debian OpenSSL débâcle:

There is now a corol­lary to “do not write your own cryp­to­graphic rou­tines”: “do not fix bugs in some­one else’s cryp­to­graphic rou­tines.” If there is a anno­tated view of the OpenSSL tree (I don’t know/don’t care), the DD […]

10 Apr: The Life of an Admin for Me

Something to say…
$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}‘|sort –rn|head
184 svn
165 ls
101 cd
96 ldapsearch
95 ssh
62 vim
25 ping
24 grep
23 sudo
20 rm

7 Apr: Inbox Zero

So frig­gin’ sweet to finally get there.

6 Apr: Credit Where Due

Thank you to the Sci-Fi Channel (and/or who­ever ends up own­ing them) for get­ting it and let­ting me down­load BSG off your web­site in a flash thing.
Also, Scott Ian is the moth­er­fuckin’ man, though I think Baltar is very clearly sup­posed to be a Factured Fairlytales ver­sion of Jesus (the beard was the giv­away, I thought). […]

5 Apr: Middleman Solutions

It seems like most of the solu­tions at spam are tar­geted at the trans­port of the spam, just as the solu­tions to drugs were tar­geted at the “inter­dic­tion” of drugs com­ing into the U.S. thirty years ago.

2 Apr: Insomnia

I’m cur­rently suf­fer­ing from putting my insom­nia to good use (so far I’ve installed Tracks), so I’ll take the time to post some ran­dom thoughts:

I was bit­ten by April Fools twice today. The sec­ond time because I was too exhausted to remem­ber that it was April Fools.
A life with­out hope is not wasted or a pity […]

31 Dec: Style and Substance

Point
Counter-point

1 Oct: Xen and The Art of Free Speech

Aside from the laugh­able idea of “mil­i­tantly” sup­port­ing any­thing with a blog post, Miguel sim­ply noted that these peo­ple exist, have writ­ten a book, and will be doing the speaking-tour-thing near him. Does he agree with the con­tents? (shakes eight-ball) Signs point to Yes.
Is he free to do so? Also yes.
Are you free to ignore him? Still yes.
Does […]

30 Sep: Pong

I notice I tend to start blog posts like an awk­ward attempt to jump-start a stalled con­ver­sa­tion: “So, I was look­ing at…” or “So, I was doing X…” It’s a lit­tle cow­ardly on my part, afraid to just jump into some­thing with­out some sort of warn­ing  —  in this case, the word “so”. Either that or I […]