Archive for 2003

Matrix Revolutions

Thursday, November 6th, 2003 | 07:41

How much better it would have been if Neo, in a last desperate attempt to defeat Agent Smith during the climatic fight, declared to his adversary, “This statement is false,” … Continue reading »

Media: Who Owns What?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2003 | 11:44

The Columbia Journalism Review has a page that describes who owns what in terms of media companies. For example, the New York Times owns a number of papers and … Continue reading »

Pictures From The Itailiad

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003 | 18:27

  Some early photos (exactly one gross, in fact) from Itai’s epic journey through the South Seas. (I was going to put them on his server, but I didn’t want to muck … Continue reading »

CD-R archiving

Sunday, November 2nd, 2003 | 14:11

There’s a discussion over at the Fred Miranda forums on archival CD-Rs. I’m up to about 600MB of pictures from my Sony, and I should probably put a copy … Continue reading »

New mail server postmortem

Friday, October 31st, 2003 | 22:44

The new mail server for work went into production last week. Here are some notes/gotchas in putting it together: RH9/package notes in general: Be careful when doing updates with the glibc. … Continue reading »

Bean Stew with wheat berries

Monday, October 27th, 2003 | 08:25

Vaguely based on this Israeli Wheat Berry Stew, but bacon-y and with on-hand vegetables. I also had frozen collard greens, but didn’t get around to adding them towards the … Continue reading »

Ropa Vieja

Monday, October 27th, 2003 | 08:22

Taken from http://www.lacabe.com/marga/food/recipes/ropa.html. Presumably we can just drop the wine part, since the stewing isn’t going to boil off the alcohol in any reasonable amount: This is an extremely delicious, … Continue reading »

RIP Tuesday Morning Quarterback

Thursday, October 23rd, 2003 | 19:39

I’ve been bombarded by search engine referrals from people looking, desperately looking, for Tuesday Morning Quarterback. Sadly, I have nowhere to direct you to. ESPN dropped TMQB, scrubbed it out … Continue reading »

IKEA Index, Internet Price Discrimination

Thursday, October 23rd, 2003 | 12:00

The Times‘s World Business section is a marvel of design: filled with some of the cruft that makes the regular Business section just a bit bulkier, it can be tossed … Continue reading »

Minor Oracle/SSH Mystery Solved

Monday, October 20th, 2003 | 16:40

Apparently, the Oracle Listener works differently on Windows compared to Unix. All the times I’ve done ssh port forwarding has been with Solaris boxes, and forwarding just 1521 has … Continue reading »