Despite the fact that I was not on campus for virtually all of last week (being in Indiana for my older sister's wedding), I still experienced some of the hullabaloo that is the University Council Presidental campaign. Thus, Travis Kavulla's Crimson column, with its explanations of the reasons why it does not really matter who [...]
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
Does your copy of Mozilla Thunderbird not correctly add messages to your Sent Folder? Read on for details on how to fix this.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Technology can be strange sometimes.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Apparently, the short letter I wrote in response to Wired's article "The Digital Audiophile's Toolbox" (part of a series on audiophiles and high-quality digital music) was worthy enough to be included in an article displaying some of the feedback that Wired Magazine had received. It is not as cool as actually being published in the [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
From: "Dr. Lewis Wallace" <834egidio@access-one.com>
To: [redacted]@hcs.harvard.edu
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?VHJ5IFNwdXItTSE=?=
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:24:47 +0000
SPUR-M is an omnipotent formula. It increases sperm production by 500%.
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Of course, theoretically, an omnipotent formula should have the ability to increase production by ∞%.
Friday, December 16, 2005
The Decemberists, a moderately well known indie rock band, have announced that they have signed a contract with the major recording company Capitol Records.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
So today, there were problems with accessing email on the FAS network. I tried Mozilla Thunderbird, mutt, and pine, but none of these client provided optimal results. My regressive friend (who uses Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, and Trillian - all non-open source software) decided to be difficult and asked if I used open-sourced medicine instead [...]
Friday, December 23, 2005
Vice President Dick Cheney is not the force behind all of the Bush Administration's bad policies and decisions, President George Bush is.
Friday, December 23, 2005
If you have been wondering why certain protected posts just straight-up disappeared from this site and the RSS feed, the reason is that I started using the ViewLevel plugin to protect posts. Since I removed the passwords that were formerly protecting the posts, if anything happens to the plugin (i.e. it suddenly stops working), the [...]
Saturday, December 24, 2005
Is the integration between Google Talk and AIM really anything to shout about?
Saturday, December 24, 2005
An special action-filled edit of the 1940 film His Girl Friday. Brought to you by the public domain and Ourmedia.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Getting the fingerprint sensor on the IBM Thinkpad T43 to work in Linux.
Monday, December 26, 2005
Upgrading to WordPress 2.0 was not as crazy as I expected, thankfully.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Lately, I have been looking at this website's traffic. If you were to graph traffic in number of actual people visiting the site and reading the content here, your graph would look a lot like a bell graph, with the highest number of people visiting in the summer months (June through August). This seems reasonable, [...]
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
A review of Phillip Roth's bestselling novel, The Plot Against America. With spoilers.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
A few minutes ago, I was looking at the main page of Wikipedia. When I saw that today's featured article was about Sealand, a micronation near to my heart, I thought about writing about it, especially in light of this extremely short but intriguing London Times article.
Then I looked across the page and saw that [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
From Pitchfork's "The 15 Worst Releases of 2005":
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: "Clap Your Hands!"
Some bands choose their most extreme, difficult, and uncharacteristic track as their album opener as both a paean to anticommercialism and a barrier to keep out…who? The impatient? Old people? It's a classic shitty underground rock pose, but not as shitty [...]
Friday, December 30, 2005
Unlike the previous favicon, in which I attempted to create a M by hand, this new favicon looks more polished. Using the popular Linux image software program The Gimp, I inserted a Times New Roman 'M' into a 64×64 image, and then downsized it into the 16×16 icon you see before you.
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Gnome developer Miguel de Icaza pointed to Howard Zinn's editorial on war in next month's issue of The Progressive. In it, Zinn posits that the conflict in Iraq might be the last war that the United States takes part in. He claims that war is not the natural state of humanity, and armed conflict only [...]
Saturday, December 31, 2005
In what is definitely the strangest way I have ever celebrated New Year's, I am changing the site's RSS feeds from full text to summary. If this causes a problem for anyone, let me know, and I will consider changing them back.