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I just reconfigured my workspace. With the addition of two new desks and some decadent LCDs, I now have an insane amount of desktop real estate.

I must go to this. I’m going to try to buy as many tickets as I possibly can (8) and go to this thing.

Anyone else want to go? If I can’t get tickets to the LA or Anaheim showing, I’ll go to Vegas or San Jose. There have got to be a few Beatles fans amongst my friends. One of the Vegas shows is on my birthday. I’m down to go to multiple ones.

Update: Got tickets for Vegas on my birthday. Anyone who wants to come is welcome, you just probably won’t be sitting with us during the actual concert.

My trusty point and click Konica Minolta Dimage x20 has died. The screen did some funky stuff, and now it has problems turning on and the screen doesn’t show anything ever. A great number of pictures in the photo album were taken with this camera; it will be missed. I have replaced it with the Konica Minolta Dimage x50. I didn’t comparison shop like I did when I bought the first one. I just bought the newest version of my old camera because I was happy with it. The internally mounted lens is a must have for me on a point and shoot camera.

I have another digital camera with manual focus and the like, which because it’s huge and bulky, never manages to go anywhere with me. I would probably be happier if the x50 had some sort of option for adjusting the focus though.

Old Camera:

New Camera:

On Saturday night I went to go watch Sin City again. Bob and Kit wanted to go see it, so I drove to The Block on my scooter. When I got home I noticed I didn’t have my cell phone. I think I either left it in the theatre or dropped it on the way home. So my Sony Ericsson z200, which was purchased in the Philippines, accompanied me through Japan, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam, was lost in the 2 miles from The Block to my apartment. So I got a new gsm card, which cost 25 bucks, from cingular to replace my old one. In Asia, you can buy a prepaid gsm card for like 3 bucks, so I’m pretty sure they’re making tons of money on this little service of theirs.

As a result, I’ve probably lost your phone number, so please email or IM me it. I’ve also had to switch phones to my backup phone, which is a crappy Sony Ericsson t237.

Old Phone:

New Temp Phone:

I’m in the market for a new one, so any suggestions will be appreciated.

In order to avoid doing more important work, I’ve been doing a lot of work on gnuyen.org. I decided to put my work integrating Gallery 2 into wordpress with a wordpress plugin because development on G2 is going by way too fast. I’ll have to wait for it to stablize. Changelog:

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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has released his new single “The Hand That Feeds” in GarageBand format so people can remix and play with the song in a format similar to that which he composed the song in. He did the “Rip” part for everyone, as he converted by hand from Pro Tools to Garageband. Now it’s up to us to Mix and Burn.

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Those of you familar with the Linux Bitkeeper saga know that RMS was very against the move to use bitkeeper to maintain the linux kernel because it forced software developers to use non free software when developing the linux kernel.

Linus Torvalds, who works at OSDL, justified it’s use by claiming it would result in more open source software, not less, and as such it would be a net gain for the open source community.

RMS pointed out this was exactly the difference between free software and open source software, and that Linus was a bad philosophical leader. A lot of other people had concerns with locking up the revision data inside a proprietary database with no way to get it out in case McVoy and the Bitkeeper gang changed the license around last minute or something. Lo and behold, McVoy killed the free version, and the people using Bitkeeper were kind of screwed.

The reason McVoy killed the free version was because Andrew Tridgell, who also works at OSDL, was reverse engineering the protocol so people have an open source client that could access data they had a right to that was locked into a proprietary database. Linus, amazingly, was against this.

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There have been two court cases recently heard by the supreme court that are very important to the future of the internet. I’ve been wanting to write an entry on them since oral arguments were made but never got around to it. The first was the FCC v. Brand X, the second the all famous MGM v. Grokster case. Due to my laziness the great Lawrence Lessig beat me to the punch in noting how relevant these cases are to the stewards of end to end internet. Now that the oral argument transcripts have been posted, I have no excuse not to comment. The law is however, a very interlinked and complicated thing, so bear with me.

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Toki’s breeder, Carroll Parkison passed away recently. Carroll was a great person that was full of spunk. For as long as I had known Carroll her health had always been an issue, but she survived so long I thought she would last forever on sheer willpower. The breed will be less without her, as she was a balancing force in the breeds dynamic. She will be surely missed.

So I’ve neglected this website quite a bit. One of the main reasons was that the last software change, the one to nucleus, resulted in a website that was ugly and difficult to manage. I’ve been wanting to switch to wordpress for a long time, as it’s GPLed and popular amongst the Gnome guys. I’ve procrastinated updating the software because I didn’t want to spend the time yet again to do the SQLfu required to import the articles into the new database format. In general, articles are always easy, comments always a royal pain in the arse. But I’m stuck here in vietnam trying to figure out ways to not work on my documentary proposal, and I find the best way to get stuff done is to do it while trying to avoid doing something else. I got everything ready to start SQLfu and was staring at my old articles and decided that they probably weren’t worth importing. I’ve been writing on this website since mid 1999 I believe; I can’t be sure since I tried to check the Internet Wayback Machine, but here in Communist vietnam they have it blocked. While the old posts are interesting to look at to gain some perspective, they aren’t really valuable to the internet at large. As such, I’ve decided to not import them to this new format. It may not be coincidental that I decided this right as I was about to start having to figure out the main SQLfu to start the import.

My main metagoals I hope to achive are to have the gallery integrated and perhaps the use of blogtorrent for video and audio. This host doesn’t provide for bittorrent seeds however, so if you know of a cheap one that would provide a few gigs please let me know. I don’t think I’m going to use categories for any entries; I’ve never really seen the need other than the neat icons provided by Geeklog in Gnuyen.org v1.0. Gnuyen v3.0 is available here.

Thus begins Gnuyen.org, v4.0. Let’s hope it doesn’t suffer the same neglect as the previous versions.