I love stuff like this. It’s always nice to see the human side of someone like Bill Gates. With the volume of antitrust suits against the company, I imagine we’ll be seeing this kind of material for a long time to come. “Someone decided to trash the one... read more

If you have a few spare moments, you have to check this out. I’m pretty convinced this guy works for me. Thank you Jezdez for the cool links. ... read more

You have got to love stuff like this. Whenever I run across something of the sort my first thought is, “Who thinks like that?” Which is usually followed by, “Who the hell has that kind of time?” These internets are pretty darn fun. ... read more

Lucas Matthew Trier was born at 6:50AM this morning, May 27, 2008. He weighed 7 pounds 2 ounces and was 20 inches long. Mother and baby are doing well. ... read more

There’s been a lot of commotion over the recent fork of the Pidgin IM client by the folks behind FunPidgin. The community at large has grown accustomed to the idea that forking is a “bad thing.” On the other hand the use of distributed version control systems (DVCS),... read more

$ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head 157 git 91 cd 82 ./manage.py 52 nosetests 49 ls ... read more

http://www.gnome.org/~federico/misc/git-cheat-sheet.txt ... read more

Wow, no surprise with Safari. But Internet Explorer 5.5 beating out IE6 and IE7, now that’s just funny. ... read more

Just because I spent so much time tracking it down, you can get the SqlAlchemy database-dependent quoted name for a column by doing: >>> metadata.bind.dialect.identifier_preparer.quote_identifier("test") '"test"' >>> ... read more

For some time I’ve had problems with the blog. Sure I could make lots of jokes about it being on Rails and unable to scale, but I leave all that as an exercise for the reader. The real issue has been a problem with fcgid crapping out about every... read more