Josh Barratt's Blog

I’ve recently been practicing some songs on my guitar, trying to get them just right.

As most of you who actually read this site know, I’ve been driving riding to work on a scooter.

I was recently asked about what music I was liking now-a-days by a friend bemoaning the lack of musical cross-pollination since leaving the hallowed halls of our Alma Mater.

I am looking at my lists of books to read and books I’m actually reading and feeling a little overwhelmed by how much good stuff there is to do right now.

I am (still) on hold with the IRS.

While working on a project for a friend, Amber accidentally deleted a playlist of music.

My macbook just scared the crap out of me.

I found a perl module today which made me disproportionately happy; thus, I decided to share.

If you want to join, append, or concatenate multiple MP3’s without packing them into a container (like ‘mp3join’ does), you can do so with ‘find’ and ’lame.’

The index on Google Video I’m frequently frustrated by my lack of expertise in these areas, looking forward to sharpening up.

Thanks, GPS!

After we tamed the wild beast of the sea (hardly wild, actually) we managed to walk with our sea legs to Camden’s local book store The Owl and Turtle.

In Ithaca, we arrived after a 10 hour long haul across the wilds of rural Maine and upstate New York to find probably the nicest bed and breakfast I’ve ever stayed in.

We just arrived at the lovely Sofitel in Philadelphia, where we’ll be spending the evening.

This entry also by my wonderful spouse Amber.

This entry also penned by my lovely wife Amber.

Ok, I’m back at the keys – and glad for all of Amber’s entries.

Note: The following entries are by Amber, who lent her voice and perspective to the next few days of the trip.

The route for day 2 took us into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

We head to the airport.

These days, we build all of our new (linux) hosts with LVM.

I am not making this up.

A friend just called and asked me what my wireless network’s named.

Created an odd dish tonight that I really enjoyed, so I thought I’d share.

We have 2 indoor-only cats.

The problem: The ipod nano, when plugged into linux, charges and syncs fine.

I’ve just had doctor’s orders to make some changes to make my cholesterol picture a bit prettier.

I’m not really into the oh-so-dated sounding ‘fusion’, I just like good food.

So the other day a friend of mine tossed an interesting statistic at me.

Last night was the first time since Amber and I’ve moved that we actually cooked!

A lot of times when I’m home (especially during the summer) I’d like some iced coffee.

On our recent England Trip, we, as I mentioned, really appreciated having a GPS navigation system.

So I started off today with a delicious sandwich.

Amber and I just got back from England and we had a great time – it was the perfect blend of getting a lot done and yet not being stressful, and of seeing things and seeing people.

I’ve been cooking a suprisingly large amount recently, considering how (otherwise) busy I am.

You know what’s absurd?

I’ve just upgraded my trusty laptop from Fedora Core 1 (FC1) to Fedora Core 4 (FC4), and thought I’d use this to just note down a few of the problems I had and the solutions.

So I’ve been pretty busy recently, mostly because I switched jobs.

No, that’s not a band name.

We keep our todo lists in CVS – it’s not as classy as using a web app, I guess, but it is nice to be able to edit what turns out to be a fairly rich space using the wonderfully powerful text-flingy-ness of vim.

I have a directory on my hard drive which has a fair quantity of multimedia content.

There are lots of people having fun out there with the Comic Life software, which is unavailable to me due to the macness of it all.

I’ve been thinking about private RSS feeds quite a bit recently.

Hehe, I love marketing garbage.

You may have surmised from reading this site that I’m typically a recipes-only kind of cook.

One of the people I work with was trying to rescue some old (but valuable) data off what appeared to be a very dead hard drive.

We just got back from a great weekend in Mammoth.

This article describes a way to dump package tracking information from from UPS/FedEx/… into an RSS feed.

I originally found out about the book The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen when I read the recipe for Boozy Potatoes at the food blog shiokadelicious.