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I doubt the people behind this are for real, but I sent them an e-mail anyway.

Spoilers ahead, so don't read on unless you've seen the movie.

Hitting below the belt.

A clinical review.

Sitting here in my old house, wearing flannel-lined khakis and my extremely orange topato hoodie, with my new keyboard in arm’s reach. Life is good. Happy Holidays to everybody!

For the next five days, my Linux machine will sit somewhere between shutting down and starting up.

By whom? Anybody that justifies the loss of a few basic freedoms for so called “national security.” Benjamin Franklin said it best: “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” LewRockwell.com has an article by Nicholas Monahan, entitled Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant [...]

I sort of stumbled across Cygwin the other day. It’s by Red Hat, but I actually like it. Cygwin gives Windows users access to many of the tools included with most Linux distributions. It’s comforting having native access to mutt, vim, bash, and ssh, on those occasions when I need to boot into Windows. I [...]

As a follow-up to my last post, here's a catalog of some interesting apps I've found for my Palm m500.

Yeah, my productivity on the Palm m500 just went to Zero.

Tim O’Reilly has a very well thought-out and informed article on piracy over at OpenP2P.com. He says many good things about the benefits of the P2P world and what has been labeled as “piracy”, the desire for users to have immediate access to entertainment, books, and the like, and the willingness of users to pay [...]

Heard this one on the way home from class yesterday: My dad said, “How about you get a job on campus?” I said, “How about I saw your face off with a soldering iron?” My faith in my peers wanes more every day.

In an effort to improve uptime, I have moved my Movable Type setup to my iBook. It should be up pretty much constantly, at the address pridian.rh.rit.edu. Pridian, for the curious, is a Latin adjective meaning “pertaining or belonging to the previous day.” I think that loosely applies to a blog, no?

Origins.

In my first post (!), I briefly mentioned the supression of my own ego, and it’s something I’d like to elaboration on. Read on for my thoughts on ego, coding, and swallowing your own pride…

Taking the plunge.