Archive for June, 2004

Fahrenheit 9/11

I saw the movie on Friday, and felt that it is one of the only piece of mainstream counterpoints to the war in Iraq on TV and in Film. Moore does an adequate job to raise questions. Even if one doesn’t like Michael Moore’s views, we live in a society that allows for freedom of [...]

Ruby Books

I’m looking for a couple Ruby books to read. Anyone have any suggestions for an advanced programmer?

Planet Python

I’ve created the domain name for Planet Python http://www.planetpython.org/ Enjoy

User Mode Linux

Well, for work I worked on setting up UML to emulate some of our products. It worked great. The Linux kernel can be spawned within as a guest. Networking works via a bridge created by the TUN interface. I wanted to daemonize the guests and got GNU screen to do exactly that. # screen [...]

Hullabaloo Concert

The Hullabaloo concert over the weekend was really good, except for the people who left early during the Blood, Sweat, and Tears set. BS&T was the last set for the night and the premier band. People were leaving in droves after the second song got under way - it was a tribute to [...]

Kristine’s Shower

Wow… Kristine’s shower seems to have went really well. We would like the thank everyone for coming and the gifts.

Python Classes

At work yesterday I wrote a pretty slick python console application to administrate our products. Python is one of those languages that supports classes quite well. Comparably, though, Python executes things slower than Ruby, and Perl. I do not have any real tests, but from practice it appears this way.