Woodpress

A while ago I used the quote, “you can’t grep dead trees” (meaning you can’t use a computer to search a paper book). Since I enjoy trying to use plain English rather than jargon, it occurred to me that there’s a pleasingly similar but more modern and mainstream way to express the idea:
You can’t google [...]

I recently bought a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. It was $220 from TigerDirect through Amazon. It runs a Debian-based Linux, and works remarkably well as both a web browser and pocket-sized mp3 player. I have paired it with my Verizon phone (LG Model VX8900) using Bluetooth, which is handy for browsing the web when I [...]

On Sunday I spent some time tweaking the font I usually use for programming (DejaVu Sans Mono) to make it work better for me. My version is called Amnesia Sans Mono (a reference to Stephen Wright’s joke, “Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.”).
Here’s a sample at 24 point. Amnesia [...]

I’ve been boycotting Sony since their DRM Rootkit attack on consumers. Recently Sony/BMG opened their music to DRM-free sale in mp3 format on amazon.com, and I’ve since been CONSIDERING dropping my boycott.
If they were to start selling DRM-free downloadable movies or make a public statement denouncing the use of DRM in general, I would drop [...]

I recently bought a JVC GZ-MG255U camcorder with an internal hard drive. It’s almost everything I’d hoped it would be. The size, weight, features, video quality, etc. are all satisfactory. The macro capability is fantastic, and makes me yearn for insect-infested summertime.
It comes with bundled software, which I’m sure provides some sort of Nerf interface [...]

It’s story time.
Once upon a time in high school, I had a really cool computer science teacher named Clarence Whetten.
Our computer lab consisted of a Unix system with 4 Meg of RAM and about 30 dumb terminals. As I understand it, Mr. Whetten approached a local company (ICON, where I later worked as an intern [...]

For about the past year, I’ve been using Visual Studio for a lot of my development work. I really like to use vi as a text editor, but IDEs like Visual Studio provide valuable functionality that isn’t present in vim. I tend to switch between vim and the IDE, depending on the sort of editing [...]

I’ve finally resolved the technical difficulties that resulted in woodpress being temporarily unavailable. It appears that MySQL 5.0.36 was incompatible with the version of libc I had installed, but Debian Sarge unstable’s dependencies didn’t reflect that. To upgrade to the latest libc, I had to also upgrade the kernel.