Thu, August 7, 2008 - 5:46 PM PST
For reasons that I can't get into, I have a company-purchased XBox 360 game console in my cube. It's a real shame actually because it's only been turned on like 4 times in the months that I've had it now. And because it doesn't get used much, it wasn't hooked up in the best of ways: no speakers, and tied to an old CRT monitor - which of course perpetuates the trend that it doesn't get played.
Inspiration struck me today though: plug the composite video and stereo audio cables into the capture ...
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Sun, August 3, 2008 - 11:33 AM PST
Xavier Nady just hit a three run homer to put the Yankees up 8-5 over the Angels. The commentator exclaimed "X marks the spot!"
That line immediately turned my shouts of joy into a groan.
TBS: get some real commentators!
Sun, August 3, 2008 - 7:24 AM PST
Linda and I went to the Bellevue Humane Society yesterday to look at a dog, an 8 year old male beagle named Hunter. We figured since he was that old, he'd hopefully be pretty chill and have most of his bad habits trained out of him by then, and the description on the pound's website said that he was a really gentle dog that liked to be around people.
Thinking back to the last dog that I spent much time with, I was already comparing this dog to Benny - also a male beagle and probably the sweetes...
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Fri, August 1, 2008 - 6:55 PM PST
So I cannot say why, but as Linda was ordering a pizza over the phone just now, I became overwhelmed by the lyrics of Cake's "Mr Mastodon Farm". I began to sing it. I was actually doing a pretty good job at it, if I don't say so myself. Linda, however, she didn't care for it.
She has bad taste sometimes. It's really too bad.
The thing is, I don't think she's ever actually heard the song before. You have right? You know that it's magical. She swore that she didn't like it - never liked it - and...
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Thu, July 31, 2008 - 8:40 AM PST
I just found out that a friend of mine from college is now a doctor. The first memory that comes to me about this guy involves a kitchen fire and everclear.
I don't think I have anything more to say about this topic.
Wed, July 30, 2008 - 9:05 AM PST
My workstation's keyboard at the office is absolutely disgusting. And a decent number of keys don't have paint on them anymore. I'm considering whether I should get a new one and throw this away or if it's worth cleaning.
It'll probably be trash very soon.
Tue, July 29, 2008 - 7:59 PM PST
I've needed to write tools to analyze packet captures a few times - my needs sometimes go beyond what you can easily get with Wireshark/Ethereal. Let me be the first to say that it's very easy to write an imperfect hack that solves one problem given known inputs, but to write a robust general purpose tool... now that's a trick.
Since it's this hard to get it right when just processing datafiles to analyze traffic after the fact, I really have an appreciation for the code in network stacks and d...
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Tue, July 29, 2008 - 7:21 PM PST
I've been in a music rut for a few months, but I did buy some new music recently.
A friend at work reminded me how great Wolf Parade is, and so I bought their first album as well as their new one. I had heard the first disc a few times before and knew I liked it but hadn't listened to Mount Zoomer yet; I have now and it's good enough that I didn't listen to anything else for at least a week.
The same friend also recommended Fleet Foxes, so I bought that album last weekend. It totally lived up ...
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 12:05 PM PST
At work, the IT department uses Microsoft Exchange, and if you're running a desktop supported by IT, you run Outlook as your mail client. I keep a copy of Windows XP on my work laptop for those sorts of occassions, but usually just connect to a terminal server and run Outlook from there. Early this week when I logged in one morning, I saw that Outlook wasn't installed on the terminal server any more. And I really needed to send an email. So I configured Pine on my workstation to talk to the Exch...
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 7:03 AM PST
I read a few books recently. I re-read The Belgariad and The Mallorean series by David Eddings. I hadn't read those since high school and so it had been long enough that I didn't remember everything so I was able to enjoy them again.
I also plowed through a couple of fairly dense technical books: Memory Management: Algorithms and Implementations In C/C++ and Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++. I recommend both for any coders that want to learn more about how a high level language mana...
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