I’ve been trying to understand the popularity of facebook over the past week. In particular, why is it seemingly more popular than friendster or orkut (unless you’re Brazilian)?
Devan phrased it well (using his elite new irc nick):
12:39 <@jbowes> facebook is way too much like orkut
12:40 <@jbowes> or all them other ones
12:40 <@jbowes> why is it [...]
It’s not enough to handle all error cases; you have to respond to them properly as well.
While waiting in the Ottawa International Airport, I placed a call to my sister from a pay phone. The number is local, so I entered the seven digits. The phone’s response was to play a recording for me: “To [...]
On Wednesday evening, whilst I was playing Nexus Ops with a few mates, the toilet began to gurgle (it turns out it had been gurgling all day). After a usage and a flush, the toilet overflowed with such speed that more than half of our apartment was flooded before the water could be stopped. It [...]
Late last week, the stalwart soupnazi née jerry crashed hard, taking a lot of data with it. Both Devan and I have since recovered most of our lost data, but the peculiar thing is that some hosts are still resolving dangerouslyinc.com to the old IP (including the Dal CS machines, which run the planet).
DNS is [...]
If your wife/SO has not yet watched NBC’s Heroes do not let her!
My wife, Devan’s wife, and Jeremy’s finance all have some sort of a thing for that Hiro character. If your relationship has not yet been affected by this pandemic, protect yourself, and stay away from this awesome show.
It must be obvious from previous posts that I love git. Tonight I sent a patch to the mailing list. It’s small and simple; it lets you save options for cvsimport in your config file, rather than supplying them each time you run it.
Hopefully it will be of use to others.
The Fedora Users and Developers Conference is on Friday. Weather permitting, I’ll be flying up to Boston to attend tomorrow night.
In no particular order, here are the parts of FUDCon I am looking forward to:
Cold Boston weather means I can wear my parka.
Riding the subway.
Meeting Mr. Katz and Mr. Vidal in person.
The yum hackfest.
Getting a [...]
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Spook in her box tunnel, originally uploaded by James Bowes.
I’m still playing around with the new hotness that is wordpress. This is me using the ‘blog this’ feature in [...]
I’ve moved my blog and associated pages from Dal CS to the dangerously incompetent data center. Also, I’ve moved it from pybloxsom to wordpress, mainly because of what Marc has written about it. So far I’m very impressed.
The most difficult thing has been setting up redirects from my old cs pages to these new ones, [...]