I just called Congressman Price’s office. The details of the Why of that call are for another blog post. The How is what I’m really interested in right now. I got an email blast from Lessig about H.R. 801, and in it there was a phone number for the Congressional switchboard. I was looking at [...]
Inspired by this article via a tweet from Paul, I’d like to cast a vote (so to speak) for the the nomination of Carl Malamud for head of GPO. Yes We Scan.
Thanks to Mr. Malamud’s advocacy, government officials are starting to ask if the federal government is really doing all it is supposed to, to [...]
I’m using Protégé for a class, and sadly the installer isn’t smart enough to install system-wide, which means I would have to cd to the install directory and issue ./run.sh to start protégé. Sub-optimal. Here’s the original run.sh:
#!/bin/sh
java ${CMD_OPTIONS} -Xmx200M -Dosgi.clean=true -DentityExpansionLimit=100000000 -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 -jar org.eclipse.osgi.jar
And my better one:
#!/bin/bash
pushd /home/<myuser>/Protege_4.0_beta
java ${CMD_OPTIONS} -Xmx200M -Dosgi.clean=true -DentityExpansionLimit=100000000 -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 -jar [...]
My family has been going to various animal shelters about three days a week for some time. Today my parents got a puppy. I want to call him Captain Kazumi, but I’m not sure the name will stick. He’s 10 weeks old. Sorry for the awful cell phone pic, btw. Also, Happy New Year. [...]
My final project for my CMC class this Fall was a research proposal, and it looks like it was a good enough first draft that I’ll be meeting up with some folks to beat it into a form that I can talk about publicly with some confidence. Once I get to that point I can [...]
…from one of my logwatch fortunes. Just had to share:
Q: An English mathematician (I forgot who) was asked by his very religious colleague: Do you believe in one God?
A: Yes, up to isomorphism!
Q: What is a compact city?
A: It’s a city that can be guarded by finitely many near-sighted policemen!
– Peter Lax
I just had a funny conversation with a friend about why In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Amnesiac are both great albums with several songs that don’t stand well on their own (at least not on the first listen), and their release dates (Aeroplane in 1998 and Amnesiac in 2001) meant that the former [...]
Daily Show Shenanigans. Probably NSFW for you:
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The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c
Clusterf#@k to the Poor House – Final Edition Edition
Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri Martin
Political HumorEconomic Crisis
A couple of quick thoughts on the above video. Firstly, why is the death of [...]
Tarus Balog lives just up the road and manages the team that maintains OpenNMS. He has a great post on his blog about the book Predictably Irrational. Check it out.
Perhaps you’ve inherited a database from a previous admin? Perhaps you have some database-backed software and you need a better understanding of the schema? You’re in luck! There’s a free Java-based tool called schemaSpy. You can grab schemaSpy from sourceforge. As of this writing the latest is 4.1.1. I’ll wait while you fetch it.
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Great! Now [...]
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