So I just replaced a very complicated git repo with numerous submodules with a much simpler one.

This gift was granted to me by the creator of Vundle, which is a vim package manager that lets you specify desired vim packages in your .vimrc and then handles the download and …

This morning, my laptop was, as usual, showing an average idle running temp of around 76C, which is fairly hot, but didn't seem too bad... until I put it under load, at which point it shut down because of the temp limit of 97C. Much searching of the Internet commenced …

My friend Allen Varney just spearheaded Bundle of Holding +3, and I just finished reading them all, so here are some brief reviews:

• Oathbreaker (Books 1 and 2) by Colin McComb - nice high fantasy, with lots of backstabbing and intrigue, though a bit heavy on backstory. And while the backstory …

I stumbled across Pelican and was quite stricken - I've wanted something similar for a long time. So! Since my current blog is an ancient mess, but the content was salvagable (thanks to it all being in text files), I converted them all to Pelican and will maybe start blogging again …

I'm using mediatomb to share my media files across my home LAN, and a friend pointed me at stream-chan which would stream live TV from my HDHomeRun via DLNA. Way cool! Except that the main endpoints in my network are phones and tablets, which are none too happy about trying …

Provided to me by some friends several years ago.

Recipe

In a bowl, whisk together 2 cups yogurt, 1/4 cup orange juice, 1 cup chopped mint leaves and 1 tablespoon sugar until mint is fragrant; strain and discard solids. In another bowl, combine 2 cups sliced strawberries , 2 tablespoons …

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gettimeofday({1163625872, 123572}, NULL) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0 …

A relative forwarded me an email spewing a bunch of jingoistic garbage, and I responded:

Radical Muslims:Islam :: KKK:Christianity

I'm not always an Andrew Sullivan fan, but the letter he reprints vividly demonstrates where attitudes like the below will get us - where they've already gotten us. "Liberty and Justice …

By TheophileEscargot
Fri Jan 28th, 2005 at 11:53:03 AM EST
	Software
		

  A brief guide to software development in the real world. Aimed mainly
at new developers: experienced programmers already know most of this.
This guide is for hands-on programmers, not managers.

    Introduction

    Most textbooks …