Who knew that press conferences could be so entertaining? Maybe I should give Fox News another chance.

How do you feel right now?
I feel like, right now, my haircut is pretty perfect, but altogether I want to redirect back towards haircuts of the ’70s.

The days, the weeks, the months have passed
Another year is done
So, it’s time for me to say
Happy Birthday, Son.
I wish you health, I wish you wealth
I wish you carefree living
And, as well as Happy Birthday
Have a great Thanksgiving!

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Well, I went over to Nuggethaus today because he was having a free empower adapter give-a-way over there at 3:30PM. Apparently, I was late by a few minutes because the place was locked up tight like a squirrel when I got there. I later found out that Nugget was home, but locked away in his vaulted server room provisioning a new OC-192c line and training his cat to walk with little mops on his feet to clean the floor. As I left, I saw a partially completed crossword puzzle on the lawn that I picked up and cross the top it read, “What kind of idiot made this puzzle?”. I thought briefly about what kind of mindset someone would have to be upset by a puzzle. Nugget insists that the crossword was done by his neighbor, Hambone something-or-other. I’m not sure that Hambone really exists.

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I compiled the latest Ruby RPMs under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 the other day, and I just got around to copying them over to a web accessible directory. You can download them here.

This reader software is really borked. I managed to import the wrong opml file into it the first time out, and now I can’t delete all of these Spanish feeds that I accidentally added (don’t ask). The reader software also managed to _not_ add all of the feeds from the wrong OPML file as well. The only thing I can guess is that the new application couldn’t scale to the volume of people that tried to use it the first day. It’s going to take a lot fixing for this to become a usuable service.

I’ve tried news aggregators like the Sage plugin for Firefox, but I didn’t really care for how it displayed the feeds. So, I just pootled along using my Firefox Live Bookmarks as my “aggregator”. However, after Yahoo! started allowing custom RSS feeds to be added , I setup an awesome page of feeds from my Live Bookmark collection. Now, mind you Yahoo! does have advertisements, but if you use the AdBlock Firefox-plugin with Proximitron, their detriment is rather marginal. The only thing I’m kind of wanting now is for the page to sort the feeds in the order of whose been updated last.

I’ve been using x2vnc to navigate between my Linux workstation and Windows laptop.
If you’re not familiar with the software, it basically works like this. X2vnc will let you use two screens on two different computers as if they were connected to the same computer. Even if one of the computers runs Windows 95/98/NT and the other one runs Linux/X11. There were two minor annoyances with x2vnc though. The first problem was that when I unhooked my laptop from the port replicator and the network, I had to restart x2vnc at the command-line. That problem I instantly solved with my mighty script, x2vnc_restart. The other problem, which was more difficult, was that the Windows and Windows Properties key seemed to have no effect on my Windows laptop. I set out to solve that problem today using xmodmap and vnc foo. The first thing I did was to setup the Windows keys in xmodmap by using the following .xmodmaprc. In the X11 world, the right and left Windows keys are modifiers named Super_R and Super_L respectively while the Windows Properties key is Hyper_R. You can see the key code for these by running the xev utility and dutifully pressing each of the buttons. Even after performing the xmodmap foo, my Windows keys were as useful as a whistle on a plow e.g. they still didn’t work. So, after upgrading x2vnc and TightVNC on Windows didn’t work, I tried using RealVNC (another VNC Client/Server install). After that, the Windows keys work as expected. See, it’s just that easy to setup a cross-platform development environment. ;-)

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