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This is a quick PSA for anyone who thinks they might be screwed if they lose their shell during do-release-upgrade: You aren’t.

Another Ubuntu upgrade, another critical upgrade bug.

Good basketball has me out of my seat waving, whooping, and worrying; wonderful emotions that come out during the NBA Playoffs.

Step right up and get your Zabbix 1.4.4 packages for Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)!

Over the last few years I’ve purchased music online from a variety of sites.

My friend Matt and I have shared a number of stories regarding our frustrations with reporting bugs to Ubuntu.

This blows my mind: Involver, sort of a competitor to the far more interesting Mosuki :-), recently posted on their blog: You may have noticed that our site broke this morning.

In a very interesting article about suicide bombing in Halo 3, the author describes how the “psychology of asymmetrical warfare” led him to take up the tactic.

On October 28, I heard/saw Pussyfinger play at Robotspeak’s 5th year anniversary party.

A small PSA: If you are upgrading Ubuntu to 7.10 “gutsy”, check to see if you have the “evms” package installed.

While innocently reading the 7.10 Release Notes my left eyebrow raised at their method for creating a new file with a single word in it. echo letter | sudo tee /etc/papersize >/dev/null Say what?

This morning around 4am I was woken by the brightness of the nearly-full moon.

Another SFI seminar I wish I could have attended: Virtual Stability: A General Characteristic of Complex Adaptive Systems?

While looking for some voting information on San Francisco’s government website, I saw this press release: Wikipedia to Relocate to San Francisco.

Originally posted to the Self-Referential Orgy (SRO) list.

Lost.

For some reason, a couple of lovely artists decided I could taint their show, Repeat After Me, with an attempt at Art (more likely, art).

for three (recorded) years, my brain goes twist around this time. it’s some sort of heralding of colder months, introspective moods, and the production of inspirational fuel for my next winter compilation. i’m constantly amazed by how our minds have both…

Living in the East Village (NY, NY) for the summer.

The next three days is CodeCon.

There is no respect for the sushi roll.

Before I write up my personal experience of yesterday’s Bike Bloc, here are links to good information about the last couple of days.

Last night critical mass rode as what is likely the largest mass of riders in its world history.

Before my window.

Alright, this is fairly geeky, but I’d like to know if there is a better way of doing this.

For sensory experience, last night in Qingdao was pretty golden.

Three infusions were made.

So we have not so bad, and we have bad.

Nothing is so bad as that which is not so bad. — The Scarlet Pimpernel Tonight was the first experiment towards a mango & mint cocktail.

What happens when you run out of ice and your guests are asking for more alcohol?

refamiliarizing myself with the self-healing cookbook, i decided to cook up some azuki beans. one half-hour into their simmer they should be cold shocked. listening to the beans boil against the pot, i was enjoying the rhythm in which they scraped against…

pick pick poke poke what’s that?

Rx Gallery: Jiffy-Scuttler 2 My favorite artist, Loren Chasse (front), playing with Glenn Donaldson as The Blithe Sons; absolutely sublime.

Rx Gallery: Jiffy-Scuttler 1 What follows is a failed, forced attempt at descriptive writing: Never having heard of Carl Stone before, I was informed he is one of the original San Francisco electronic + field recording artists.

(For amusement, Google for “grey gray spelling”)

The dance basically means to do simple weird movements with your feet, hips and body (kinda like speaking in tongues, in dancing).

ah. well, it reminds me of when i get that rush in my chest, as if a giant wave of water and oxygen and possibility were moving through me, connecting me to the past, the future, and other beings. — Sasha What some of us tech steeped peoples go through fr…

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. — Robert F.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. — John Locke This quote reminds me how knowledge is passed around in geek communities.

For an earthquake this size, every single sand grain on the planet dances to the music of those seismic waves.