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{ Monthly Archives } May 2008

building the latest mutt

Mutt 1.5.18-1 just came out recently, and the news just hit google reader, so I decided to build it. Why am I going with the debian package and not with the source straight from the mutt website? Two reasons. The first is that I run Ubuntu, so the build process is the same as [...]

Invisible Armies

Earlier today I finished reading Invisible Armies (Hardcover) by Jon Evans. I enjoyed it thoroughly, despite painfully implausible plot twists, over-the-top feats of über-hacking, and a few odd phrases like, “Davy Jones’s much-fabled locker” that just made me giggle.
Invisible Armies (Paperback) is a bubblegum summer novel tailor-made for those of us who use Linux at [...]

nerdcore indeed

<3 Weezer sometimes:

Nerdcore indeed.

deep thought

Trying to write a longer, serious blog post is a surefire way to kill the urge to post anything here at all.

wsj ed page oddness

Honestly I haven’t read enough of the WSJ’s editorial page to pass judgment, but this article definitely doesn’t fit the picture that had been painted for me by others. It’s a happy dissonance for me, though I do have to say that the headline is really misleading. The casual observer will not take away the [...]

happy mission accomplished day

via.