nicholas a. evans (nevans)
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methinks everyone's burned out from @railsconf/@bohconf last week. low (no?) turnout for @bmoreonrails Open Source Hack Night...
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What's a linux app that measures how much time I spend in what apps, what URLs in ff/chrome, and what cmd in gnome-terminal? willing to pay.
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I love Firefox 4's Panorama feature just like I knew I would. I'm destined to continue running Firefox and Chromium side by side.
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Protip: In `pkill -f processname -v`, "-v" does NOT mean verbose. (It means reVerse.)
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super horrible bad news day; of the never-gonna-spend-less-than-maximum-health-care-deductible-again super painful chronic illness variety.
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Nexus One over AT&T/EDGE (Baltimore, MD) seems to download faster than my iPhone 3G did. Looking forward to my pending T-Mobile/3G switch.
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Dear #lazyweb, do you know of a nice Android app for playing audiobooks and podcasts in double speed? I can't ditch my iPhone without this.
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ubuntu upgrade was rudely interupted by hard disk failure. i've cobbled together a mostly working system anyway
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really enjoying Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) so far. with a few minor hurdles, it seems to work great on a MacBookPro (5,4: aluminum unibody).
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it's looking like a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" and install karmic alpha day...
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looks like I'm not the only one wondering where why the lucky stiff's websites and accounts have gone: http://➡.ws/䊊
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http://shoooes.net is down, and http://github.com/why/ http://twitter.com/_why both return a 404. What happened? :-(
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Lenovo no longer sells laptops w/o Windows on website. I don't want to pay the Microsoft tax, but ThinkPads are my favorite laptop by far.
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I learned about Alt-{ in bash: it's like tab completion, except that it matches *all* files (using {foo,bar} syntax). #standup
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thinking about how deliciously apt ROSHOMON was as @SenatorTheatre's last film, with many stories explaining the tragedy (auction is today).
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thanks to canonical and the launchpad team for going open source! http://www.ubuntu.com/news/canonical-open-sources-launchpad/
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The browser wars and the OS wars finally converge? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
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back at work after a wonderful vacation last week. *sigh*
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gonna miss @ignitebaltimore tonite, because family is in town. is there some way for me to transfer my ticket to a needy someone?
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Sad that I missed Barcamp Baltimore today. But I had a good time catching rockfish in the Bay instead and cooked them for a good dinner, too