Archive for August, 2005

shakes, dreams

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Slim-Fast shakes are pretty tasty. A good quickie breakfast. These protein shakes that I tried this morning, on the other hand… not very good. I think I’m goign to discontinue that, right out. Blech. So much for “rich chocolate”. At least I’ve got a blender that I can make smoothies and such in now though, [...]

I just went 11 miles in 44 minutes…

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

and boy are my legs tired.

more netflix awesomeness: Bruce Almighty

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

Yeah, so I would have NEVER watched this movie, but for netflix. General impression: It’s cute. Morgan Freeman plays a pretty decent God. There’s some cute one-liners, and overall it’s got a good mix of the whimsy that Jim Carrey is so well known for and the general awesomeness that Freeman does so well. Definitely [...]

on clients

Friday, August 12th, 2005

So, I regularly use two chat networks: Aim and ICQ. I’ve always sustained that ICQ’s normal client was terrible, and very few people I know disagree. I’ve been using Miranda IMfor that for a while — it’s an open source implementation, using some nice windows apis and generally implementing all the modern features, but without [...]

Samba Bug

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Found what I really think is a Samba bug. Or a bugfix for a bug that we all were quietly relying on… one way or the other. A lot of credit here should go to my roommate for noticing the misbehaving interface though. Samba 3.0.14a (the latest stable version) and Tiger just don’t get along. [...]