Archive for October, 2003
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 »
Posted in Tech | Comments Off on New mail server postmortem
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 »
Posted in Food | Comments Off on Bean Stew with wheat berries
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 »
Posted in Food | Comments Off on Ropa Vieja
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 »
Posted in Ideas | Comments Off on RIP Tuesday Morning Quarterback
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 »
Posted in Ideas | Comments Off on IKEA Index, Internet Price Discrimination
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 »
Posted in Tech | Comments Off on Minor Oracle/SSH Mystery Solved
Friday, October 17th, 2003 | 08:33
I was surprised when they brought Pedro back out to pitch the 8th. He had started to look vulnerable at the bottom of the 7th, with the Yankees nicking … Continue reading »
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Monday, October 13th, 2003 | 17:37
Is a movie shaped to look just like a 1970s martial arts exploitation film itself a 1970s-style martial arts exploitation film? If so, Kill Bill may be the best … Continue reading »
Posted in Reviews | Comments Off on Kill Bill
Saturday, October 11th, 2003 | 12:17
Some notes on the kata: In terms of stance, the weight is shifted forward, knees bent, on balls of feet. This is different from open-hand, where the weight tends to … Continue reading »
Posted in Martial Arts | Comments Off on Saturday bokken work
Thursday, October 9th, 2003 | 18:40
I found the Shadow Illuminator through Metafilter. From the comments to the Metafilter posting, the Shadow Illuminator apparently implements a simple to use web-based contrast mask: quite possible in Photoshop, and … Continue reading »
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