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Last week I attended the Sun Mashup Event, a "Web 2.0" event put on by Sun's Startup Essentials program. This event used the old "entertaining romp" formula based on the line "those who can do, those who can't talk about it". In this case the one that can is Tim Bray, and the one who can't is Michael Arrington. These two personalities are, more than you can imagine, contrasting and unique. Michael referred to himself as "leading the ...
Fans of the band Kittie will be happy to know that their new album "Funeral for Yesterday" has recently released (Feb 20th). I just found it browsing iTunes and have been rockin' out to it for a couple hours now. Long time fans will be interested in this album because its their first since leaving Artemis Records in favor of their own label to have more independence. The big question was, what kind of sound would they have when they ...
Loosing your internet connectivity can sometimes be considered a forcible break from the hustle and bustle of life on the net.... unless you work from home. Last week my Comcast Internet connectivity started tweeking on me. Network speeds dropped significantly but I brushed it away as network troubles or upgrades or something. The speed issues got worse and worse to the point that just logging into a system via ssh took minutes. We did ...
I brick'ed my workstation about 3 weeks ago when BFU'ing to the December Crossbow Beta. Thanks to ZFS no data was harmed, just reinstall a fresh Solaris SX:CR and reimport the pool. I was busy and didn't have time to reinstall Enlightenment, so I just put up with JDS. JDS sucks.... GNOME in general is just lame. Tonight I built Enlightenment 16.8.5 (kwo is the man). I've been running DR17 for several months so I thought it was time ...
Tamarah, Jason Hoffman, and I all attended a swanky Web 2.0 shin-dig courtasy of Hitachi Data Systems last night and several things became clear: people think that I (benr) am the gal at the top of the page (who is in fact my wife), and I've been depicted in cartoons/comics twice now (one private, one public) and done wrongly in both. So she, having artistic ability decided to take the challange of setting things straight in her mind. The ...
Tamarah and I stopped in Target tonight to pick up Superman Returns and some diapers (husbands secret plot: buy a Wii) when I stumbled across something entirely unexpected and that I'd not previously been aware of: Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut. Tam and I just finished watching it and... wow. Un-frickin'-believable! Absolutely worth every single penny. This flick demands to be in any geeks library. Let me explain... If ...
I've had a Sun messenger bag for eons, my signature bag of choice featuring my old TAOS tags and several charms I've accumulated over the years at various confs... but when I came to Joyent I was given an 15" MacBook Pro and my trusty bag didn't have a laptop compartment. I've never really been a laptop fan really, to me they are really just a portable console, little more. But it was time to get a new bag so that I didn't have to carry both ...
I just bought my first O'Reilly Short Cuts on Mongrel. At Joyent I spend a lot of time working with Mongrel so I thought maybe I'd learn something new... besides, I was curious whether or not these Short Cuts were worth it. The document is only available in PDF, weighs in at 53 pages and costs $9.99. The PDF is dense, so dense that its hard to distinguish section headings from captions. Only two pages are "wasted", the title page ...
Tamarah, Nova, Glenn, and I just returned from the 4 day weekend... and man was it nice. Now that my home is "the office" there was more an appreciation for leaving than I've had in the past. Most important I only did about 2-3 hours of work while on vacation, which was nice. Interesting highlights include seeing Happy Feet with the kids, the first movie we've taken both of them too (Nova's first movie experience was The Hitchhikers ...
We're now doing a weekly podcast at Joyent: ps pipe grep. (No, I didn't have anything to do with the name.) Apparently Joyent is also doing a new weekly comic strip: Benr & Shanr... a strip that I had nothing to do with (as evidence by the fact that my "character" is wearing pants). The first time I saw it was in the blog like everyone else. As for providing real content in this blog... I'm hoping to get back to it soonish. ...