Month: July 2013
No Gnus T-Shirts!
(July 31, 2013)After procrastinating for a few years (I’m getting better and better at procrastinating), I’ve finally gotten some No Gnus t-shirts organised. With fancy silver print and all. Head on over to the shop to buy some. Buy a lot, buy a few.
New Chart Version
(July 30, 2013)Back in 1999 (or something) I released the PHP library we use to generate charts and stuff. It’s been updated somewhat since then, but I hadn’t pushed the update to PHP5 for some reason. So I took the opportunity to push it to github. Enjoy.
Livin’ in the 1980s
(July 28, 2013)I got a new tape deck! Now that newspapers have started reporting on how all the hipsters have moved from vinyl to tape (because vinyl got too popular), hipsters have probably stopped buying tape decks. (Too mainstream now.) So I was finally able to pick up a good one today, after looking for a month. … Continue reading Livin’ in the 1980s
Monetising
(July 26, 2013)Ever since Google Adwords dumped Gmane for reasons, Gmane hasn’t had any income. It doesn’t really matter that much, but I find it annoying. The Gmane web site has some traffic. About half a million page views per day. Surely there’s $$$ in that. Not that I like ads. I think ads are yucky. I … Continue reading Monetising
1995: The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn
(July 25, 2013)1995 is over, and this is perhaps the essence of books-that-I-didn’t-read: It’s a short story collection; it’s an omnibus; it’s really long; I bought it on sale; it’s by an author I had grown disenchanted with. I first read Martha Gellhorn’s The Face of War, and was completely blown away. Then I bought The View … Continue reading 1995: The Novellas of Martha Gellhorn
I’ve Looked At Clouds
(July 24, 2013)The Neighbour Is An Avid Bird Watcher
(July 23, 2013)1995: Slik talte Zarathustra
(July 21, 2013)1995 is almost at an end! After Friedrich Nietzsche has been vanquished, nothing stands between me and the super-human effort that is finishing something! So I say: Hah! This book is most amusing! Just watch! I am laughing! Hah! Hah! Hah! – Also sprach Lars Rating: Moustacheriffic
1995: Sol, stå stille
(July 17, 2013)I got this book in 1995. It’s another of my grandfather’s books. It’s about Israel, and was written in Denmark in 1950, so it’s written while things were still going on in Israel. On the other hand, when weren’t they? Poul Borchsenius doesn’t make much of an effort to tell a balanced tale, but he … Continue reading 1995: Sol, stå stille
I Forgot How To Plier
(July 16, 2013)Home Renovations
(July 15, 2013)The balcony floor has been flaking ever since I bought this apartment. This week, Oslo has finally seen some slightly summerish weather, so I decided to do something about it. The normal thing (for me) to do would be to call somebody competent, but I thought that surely this was something to do myself. And … Continue reading Home Renovations
1995: Both Right and Left Handed
(July 13, 2013)I bought this book by Bouthaina Shaaban in 1995. More because I had a tendency to buy all books I happened upon published by The Woman’s Press (they have a very neat logo) than because I wanted to read a book subtitled “Arab Women Talk About Their Lives”. I know. I know. Anyway. Shaaban writes … Continue reading 1995: Both Right and Left Handed
Function Over Form
(July 9, 2013)But it’s comfy!
Useful Consumer Review
(July 7, 2013)I’ve got a computer in the kitchen (as one does), but it’s very difficult to get Ethernet cabling to where it’s at. So I’ve been using a Devolo dLAN Highspeed Ethernet II home plug network-via-powerline plug. And it totally sucks. Sure, it’s slow, but worse is the latency and unreliability. I’m using it for NFS … Continue reading Useful Consumer Review
The Eyes Have It
(July 5, 2013)I was looking at the “acknowledgement” page of Big Feminist But (because I thought my name would be there, since I participated in the Kickstarter). I looked for like three seconds, and I found my name: Which just seems either 1) extremely lucky or 2) I’ve trained my eyes to pick out my name, fast, … Continue reading The Eyes Have It
Book!
(July 3, 2013)I have literally no idea why I might have ordered this book, but I’m unpacking stuff. And just look at this cover: That’s just totally fabulous. And the book feels fantastic. I want to read it right now! But I’m not going to. Probably next week.
Note To Self
(July 3, 2013)This is how you set up the digitemp device the next time the SSD breaks down and you’ve forgotten to back up the /etc directory: [larsi@stories ~]$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/20-digitemp.rulesATTRS{idVendor}==”0403″, ATTRS{idProduct}==”6001″, MODE=”0666″, NAME=”digitemp” It’s “ATTRS” now, not “ATTR”. Or “SYSFS”. Thanks a lot, udev people. Changing the names to be used in the conf files all … Continue reading Note To Self
Useful Consumer Review
(July 2, 2013)I’m going to the Kongsberg Jazz Festival this weekend, but the schedule on Saturday is the weakest it’s been in years. So we thought we’d do a micro-hackathon. And then I needed a laptop with functioning built-in 3G. And I needed a new one for work purposes, anyway. I’d never use it for anything but … Continue reading Useful Consumer Review
Chirp
(July 1, 2013)Every night at 2AM this bird starts chirping outside my window: After a while, it realises that just because it’s getting lighter, it’s not actually morning yet, so it goes back to sleep, and doesn’t get up until 7. But what kind of bird is it? It makes a lot of varied sounds, and I … Continue reading Chirp