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After building the typical "test bundle" scaffolding in an editor for the hundredth time, I decided to do something about it.

15 Years Ago Today Apple acquired NeXT.

A couple of days ago I finished reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.

I'm happy to announce that the website for my book is now live at http://cf-learn.info/.

Yesterday my external Western Digital disk (which I use for Time Machine, among other things) stopped mounting automatically when I plug it in.

Learning CFEngine 3 Automated system administration for sites of any size By Diego Zamboni via shop.oreilly.com My upcoming book "Learning CFEngine 3" is now available as an Early Release, which includes (for now) the first four chapters of the book.

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via scanomat.com I remember joking in grad school that we should've had coffee-on-tap so we didn't need to walk all the way down to the kitchen.

I just switched from Carbon Emacs (which is old Emacs 22.x) to Emacs for OS X Modified on my Mac (which is a Cocoa app, and Emacs 23.3).

Today I gave a presentation at UNAM's 2011 Computer Security Conference in Mexico City.

I'm attending UNAM's computer security conference, giving a talk as well.

via Bad Astronomy Amazing.

via feedproxy.google.com Very nice video.

Nyamulagira, which generally erupts every two years, rumbled to life at 8:06 p.m via news.nationalgeographic.com Must be an amazing sight.

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via theinspiration.com One time on a plane from Brussels to Chicago, I was trying to make space in the overhead for my backpack, by moving a large bag with a flowery stamped design.

Quadrocopters are really getting popular for research, and for a reason - they are seriously cool.

via theatlantic.com Wow.

via theatlantic.com Nice photo set from the Panamerican Games.

I’m doing some cleanup and reorganization, and captured my current app setup as a reference point.

via daringfireball.net Voice recognition is hard :)

CFEngine is both the oldest and the newest of the popular tools for automating site administration.

Let's talk about some of those secret features you may not know about. via github.com Nice article about some lesser-known GitHub features.

A new version of CFEngine 3 Nova was released today, and to go with it, there will be a free webinar called "Introduction to CFEngine 3 Nova" on November 2nd.

The tools that Dennis built — and their direct descendants — run pretty much everything today.

via kottke.org WHOA, WHERE THE HELL DID THAT GUITAR NOISE COME FROM??!

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Today I have two big announcements to make.

via albinoblacksheep.com And now for an oldie but most definitely a goodie - the Llama Song!

via jasonadriaan.com Amazing.

Dennis Ritchie passed away last weekend.

Farewell, Steve.

A few days ago I learned through Spaf that Gene Schultz had had a severe accident and was hospitalized.

on youtube.com via web-heads.

via gizmodo.com This is the stuff of Sci-Fi movies.

via slipsum.com Awesome.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Amazing illusion.

via youtube.com This is making the rounds, so I might as well contribute.

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Cfengine (tested 3.2.0) installs easily on OS X (tested 10.7), given that it's Unix.

Follow mode is a minor mode that makes two windows, both showing the same buffer, scroll as a single tall “virtual window.”

via youtube.com Beautiful video.

I just finished upgrading our Mac (my wife and I share it) to Lion.

Today I had my 2nd-Kyu Karate exam.

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As annoying as Outlook is most of the time, it has a few nifty features.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Amazing short video.

via blogs.discovermagazine.com Very nice video.

I hate this game.