Monthly Archives: October 2002

Elephant 6, the collective that brought you such notable bands as Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, and Elf Power, is dead. Somehow I don’t think we’ll be seeing a Behind the Music about this one.

For an idea of what I’m working on at my new job, check out John Sequeira’s SEVIS watch.

I’ve moved this blog to Movable Type, mostly because its amazing feature-set beats the pants of my puny roll-your-own tool. I would have used MT when I was building my own tool but, at the time, it didn’t support MySQL. … Continue reading →

On intellectual property, U.S. forgets its own past “The economies that were shining success stories of development, from the United States in the 19th century to Japan and its East Asian neighbors such as Taiwan and South Korea in the … Continue reading →

I’m really enjoying the advent of RPG ebooks. Unlike mainstream ebooks, where everything is distributed with some form of copy-protection, RPG companies seem to have standardized on unencrypted PDFs. Unfortunately, the major companies have yet to clue-in, although alot of … Continue reading →

The secret of Slashdot’s success.

OSNews has an excellent article on how to address some of the shortcomings of Red Hat 8.0, such as MP3 playing and nVidia drivers. Very handy.

I’ve been reading books on my PDA lately and I quite like it. The screen is readable enough and it’s very compfortable in my hand. It’s also smaller than a paperback making it easy to cart around on the subway. … Continue reading →

I upgraded my desktop machine to Red Hat 8.0 tonight. All I can say is: Mmmmm, anti-aliased fonts.

Microsoft now serious about bugs, says Ballmer “But it’s the customer who has put up with this buggy software for years and it seems that its only when security becomes a big priority and the constant reports of bugs in … Continue reading →