eric’s extremeboredom

I asked my parents, who are jewish, if I could put lights outside the house this year for the holidays. Surprisingly (to me), they were extremely offended by my question, saying that the lights directly represent christmas and christianity, and not the general holiday season/spirit which is what I have always thought. The modern-day version [...]

Yesterday I helped Matt Westervelt put together a page for Seattle Wireless’s Node Fundraiser, he announced it today: SeattleWireless needs your help to put a wireless node on the Capitol Hill Radio Towers. This node will be able to connect Seattle neighborhoods and can possibly be used for longer distance links as well. It is [...]

The wiki page describing how to install the accelerated nvidia drivers on the Ubuntu Linux wiki was very poorly written and basically just completly wrong. I spent a little bit of time cleaning it up, please let me know if you have any comments. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia Obviously this whole process is much much more complicated than [...]

Don’t have any big thanksgiving plans? Or, think you are going to need something calm and relaxing to do after eating a little bit more than you think you should have? Come join us on #ubuntu-bugzilla (freenode) for Ubuntu Bug Day 2005! From The Fridge: Daniel Holbach sent out a reminder that this Thursday, November [...]

What kind of crap is this? Fitzgibbons [the defending lawyer] said in July that plea negotiations had broken off because prosecutors insisted on prison time, which he said would be too dangerous for someone as attractive as Lafave. I really hope that didn’t have anything to do with the judge’s desicion… would be a very [...]

The first comes from RIAA president Cary Sherman said that sony “acted very responsibly” to the rootkit/xcp situation (As seen here): “The problem with the SonyBMG situation is that the technology they used contained a security vulnerability of which they were unaware. They have apologized for their mistake, ceased manufacture of CDs with that technology,and [...]

I spent a little bit of time today and got my documentation system running again. I also updated it with the very latest GTK# 2.7.1 and Mono 1.1.10 class library documentation. Announcing: http://docs.gotmono.net/ ! Thanks to the AJAX.net library, you will never see the entire page reload, yet the contents tree will always stay in [...]

I thought this was too amusing not to post (quoted from preveous link)… “Also cool: I was browsing DAPreview (the site for those addicted to MP3 players…I’m on #15, I think?), and found Wooden Headsets. As pleasingly Non-Apple-Hipster-White as they are, they’re transformed into pure awesomeness by the truly awesome cautionary imagery that accompanies them, [...]

This is no doubt the best episode of south park all year. The best part of it is that almost the entire story, which sounds so stupid it’s hilarious, is actually the exact story that scientologists believe is what happened 75 million years ago. In fact, had they not written the words “This is actually [...]

This was posted to the mailing list yesterday, nobody else blogged it so I figured I might as well: We have also released an unstable version of gtk+ 2.8 bindings for people who want to start experimenting with the cairo API. This release is not for the faint of heart, and comes with no API [...]