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Last night I managed to pick up Best Reason to Buy the Sun by the Benevento/Russo Duo. Purely instrumental, they are an odd cross of Medeski, Martin & Wood, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Bad Plus. For me, at least, it’s one of the best CDs to sling code or manipulate a […]

While my DSL does not have the most amazing uptime statistics, it certainly is doing okay today in the speed department. And I’m even using it to download legal stuff, like kernel source trees.  When it works, I have to say that the Bellsouth DSL Extreme is quite handy.

I really need server-side spam nuking… 3 days offline, 1414 new messages, 98% of which are spam.

This weekend, I purchased a wacky cool MacBook Pro for my wife. The included PhotoBooth tool seems pretty useless, if not entertaining. For example, even I can have a strong chin and wonderful hair. Of course, it sucks that my non-geek wife now has a better machine than I do.

We had the ups and downs about the Oracle acquisition rumor for JBoss.  Then that died.
This morning, I just happened to wander by the RedHat site, and what do you know, but they are buying JBoss.  Overall, RedHat will probably be a better opensource citizen in caretaking the JBoss property, compared to Oracle.

The new meme is tag everything of course. For some reason, everyone’s definition of ‘everything’ does not seem to include tags themselves. We can already tag blog posts, pictures, podcasts and bookmarks. Soon, you will be able to tag the tags you tag things with. Imagine the power of the web […]