After noticing that, I checked my logs for the first time in a while, and saw a bunch of suspicious requests from Ukraine, among other places, trying to exploit holes in the MT security model.
I am not interested in investing the time to track all the possible exploits and keep my MT install patched, and I think it would be irresponsible to leave those vulnerabilities in place.
So, this site is read-only from now on. Posts and comments are here for posterity's sake, but there are no new ones. If you want to see what I've been up to, you can check me out on Twitter.
Thanks to all who've read this blog; it's been a fun ride, but I'm moving on to other projects.
]]>233 cd (and aliases that do a cd)
154 emacs
125 svn
83 grep
72 sdiff (alias to svn diff w/ coloring)
67 sst (alias to svn st w/ coloring)
58 ll (alias to ls -l)
29 rake
20 ssh
13 ./start.sh (for starting mongrel, to work on Rails apps locally)
On the morning of October 27, 1969, a squadron of 18 B-52s — massive bombers with eight turbo engines and 185-foot wingspans — began racing from the western US toward the eastern border of the Soviet Union. The pilots flew for 18 hours without rest, hurtling toward their targets at more than 500 miles per hour. Each plane was loaded with nuclear weapons hundreds of times more powerful than the ones that had obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]]>
Starting around 2:45 is the relevant Q&A, where an audience member asks Ron Paul whether he believes "the theory of evolution" to be true:
I think that there, it's a theory. It's 'the theory of evolution.' And I don't accept it, you know, as a theory. But I think, it probably doesn't bother me, it's not the most important issue for me, to make a difference in my life to understand the exact origin. I think that the Creator that I know created us and every one of us, and created the universe, and the precise time and manner. And, you know, I just don't think that we're at the point where anybody has absolute proof on either side ... I think it's a theological discussion.
I agree it's not a directly relevant issue, but — especially in Paul's case — such irrational thinking is reason for concern.
update Reason mag has an analysis of the candidates' positions on evolution vs. creationism/intelligent design.
]]>I don't think human-readable documentation should be allowed ... it's just irresponsible.
I agree, to an extent. The "what" comments can be often be replaced by clear variable, class and method names.
The problem is that the "why" comments — i.e. any comment that has the word "because" in it — would get lost.
Let's say the "address 1" field is limited to 255 characters, and a customer wants one that's 275 characters. Can you make the change? If the design decision was motivated by the desire to save space, you can. But if that's the limit set by the printing vendor, you can't.
I suppose that (instead of a comment) you could take the RSpec files and add in some it "should comply with printing vendor specifications" do ... test, which is run against the database schema, but that's still human-readable.
The software doesn't care why you have that particular constraint. But the people maintaining that code do.
]]>Jim Moran's district has gotten more federal contract money than the next three combined.
]]>And it's Mitt Romney's crazy religious beliefs that are a campaign issue?
Religion and politics, in one post. I'm back. My return can be credited to, or blamed on, my blogsister Karol "YOU SHOULD BLOG THAT" Sheinin.
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The documentation refers to various settings for AdBlock Plus, in addition to the whitelist/blacklist rules, but I don't see this on my Mac.
So here's how you solve the problem:
Type about:config into your browser's address bar.
In the top input, labeled "Filter:", type "adblock".
Look for the entry called "extensions.adblockplus.frameobjects" (below) and double-click it:
It should now be boldface, and set to user set / boolean / false instead of default / boolean / true.
Voila! No more ugly, grey tabs.
That's pretty damn interesting for any sports geek, but what's truly spectacular is his colorful commentary on the guys, especially as you reach the end of the list:
My favorite, though:
[Nets center Jason] Collins last year shot 36.4 percent, averaged 3.7 points per 40 minutes, and turned the ball over on more than in one five of the possessions he used; those were just the highlights. I could go in far greater detail about how gory his offensive numbers were, but there are women and children around.]]>
She says it reads "beware of perverts" and apparently they are downright common in Tokyo. Wow.
]]>Granted, he was living in Manhattan and only working in NJ. But here's the mugshot and here's his MySpace page: "[W]orking hard always cause I know in the end it will all pay off. The harder you work the harder you can party." I suppose so, if you're a necrophile working in a hospital morgue.
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]]>Ceviche is a method of "cooking" where you basically just marinate the raw fish in highly-acidic citrus juices, and leave it overnight. It originates on the pacific coast of South America. This recipe is totally inauthentic (for example, salmon live in the northern hempishere) but joyously colorful, damn tasty and very healthy for you.
The key concept here is fresh. Don't use bottled lime juice. Don't use canned tomato. And if you use dried cilantro, you're beyond help. Please leave my website and don't ever come back again.
Prep Time: 15 Minutes
"Cooking" Time: 4 hours
Ingredients
Instructions
Tips
This recipe can be easily customized, by changing the marinade. You can omit the olive oil. You can use lemons instead of limes. Among the things you can add to that marinade are a freshly-minced clove of garlic, some ground black pepper, a teaspoon of cumin and even a tablespoon of sugar.
The dish is very acidic, so it goes well with mildly-flavored foods such as avocados or potatoes. I ate it with some freshly-baked bread, and that worked well.
Footnotes
[1] Get wild salmon. In this case "farm-raised" and "organic" are bad. Pacific salmon is ample, and the wild ones are more nutritious. In some cases, aquaculture has to add orange dye to the farmed salmon to make it look appealing. Blech.
[2] What type of onion? It depends on your taste. Yellow is milder. Red is prettier. Vidalia onions are sweeter.
[3] Various recipes call for as much as a cup of chopped cilantro. Some people loathe the herb and omit it entirely.