Entries in Category: History

This is the first of two posts. Don't worry, they're about different people. I'm doing this one first because it ties into the whole ancient history motif of this week's posts. Matt Kennedy (mkennedy) is one of my oldest online friends. I've known him since early in 2000 (or maybe even late '99). He, along with Rach and Devdas (f3ew) and of course edge-op, is part of the yahoo! chat crowd. Of course, he was not mkennedy back ...

I'll end this poison talk with this final entry. Pylon has been here for 4 years now. Like he said, he's one of the senior/older developers, so he's seen a lot of it, too. I want to clarify that just because infra does control the button does not mean that I think they're abusive about it. Far from it. The issue is this: trust. Infra's members have to trust each other. Implicitly. Non-infra developers have to trust infra. Implicitly. ...

I've been meaning to write this post for months, actually. Maybe years. I'm likely to get quite a bit of stabby glares from all sorts of circles because of this. That doesn't matter to me, because the truth has to be told. Yes, people, I'm about to declothe some emperors on this one. As I indicated in the prelude posting, Ciaran is only the latest in a series of jerks As up in arms as people get about him ...

I've been unmotivated to write any entries for the past couple of months, because I've spent a lot of energy on my personal/professional life, and that took a lot of time. In summary, I'm doing contract/consulting work for a while back at Brontes with my old office-mates. It's been 3 weeks doing that, and it has been real fun. It's felt like a homecoming, in a way. I'll blog more about it later. Let's first get to the poisonous ...

Remeber all those fasts I did last year? Well, I had a final blood test (well, for the year, anyway) a few weeks ago -- right before Christmas vacation -- I also had an appointment with my doctor. Anyway, here's the long and short of it: my liver enzyme levels are completely normal now, as are my cholesterol levels. At some point, I'll scan in all my reports (the relevant sections) and put them up so ...

That's right folks. The box is dead. The motherboard fan won't work, the media disk is clicking (that was 120GB SATA with all my multimedia on it). And it won't boot. Even the livecd hangs when trying to mount the livecd filesystem. So, I guess it's time to try and find somewhere I can take the other disks to mount and get data off. Oh well...

So, the Genesi PPC box arrived in almost perfect condition. It was sitting packed in a box this whole time, so there was barely even any dirt in it or around it. It booted right up, and I got the data off it. It's a very quiet box. Since it has 2 ethernet ports on it, it'll become my new dns/dhcp server etc. As for my athlon box, the CPU fan came loose and fell right off. So did the ...

...is finally here. You heard right, ladies and gentlemen. The computer that's been in LA since I moved to Boston almost two years ago arrived tonight. I haven't switched it on or anything like that. I'll save that part for the weekend. I plan to open the sucker up and look out for dust and loose connections and stuff. The case did take a wee bit of damage, but nothing fatal, I don't think. The Genesi ppc box also arrived. ...

A few people have talked about Stuart's departure already. And I didn't read any of the planet yesterday, when I posted. So that means it's been 2 days since his official announcement, and I've been suspiciously quiet about it :( Well, no longer. A few of us knew Stuart was going to retire a little bit before his resignation from the board. I will be honest here: I did not ...

When I was growing up in Zambia, my family and I would go to Zimbabwe ("Zim" to those in the know, though I can't imagine anyone going there these days) to visit. Zimbabwe was great because you'd get coca-cola (which was banned in Zambia at the time), and not only that, it came in a can! All we had was coke in a glass bottle (which, arguably, is the superior packaging, because there is a distinct taste difference). And also, ...