The Empty

Here's a piece from MSNBC on Joe The Plumber:

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So I was finally able to see the latest Indian Jones movie because it was released on DVD last week.  The movie was alrighty, but I think could have been a bit better in places.  It is no Raiders, of course.  Anyway, I watched the special feature on the DVD with Spielburg and Lucas talking about everything leading up to finally making the latest Indiana Jones movie.  Basically, as far as putting the movie ideas for the movie together it was "George Lucas came up with a stupid-ass idea, and luckily Spielberg was there to make it not as stupid."  I dunno wtf happened to George Lucas, but he h

When using javascript in your website, many recommend "compressing" the javascript - that is, get all the extraneous whitespace out of it. the idea is that there is less for the browser to download before actually executing the script. I see lots of stats of different javascript shrinkers of how much they shrink the filesize, but how much does that actually help in user experience? I suppose it really depends on the size of your js files and how speedy the user's link is.

Well, it finally happened.  We're outnumbered.  There are now five animals in the house and only four people.  The wife felt the need to get two parakeets (budgies) in addition to the three dogs.
I've never kept birds as pets before because I don't see the point.  They are one step above fish in the pet world for me - slightly more than a decoration.  We'll see.

If you know me, you know that I run Linux. If you don't know me: Hi, I run Linux.

I stumbled upon a linux turn based strategy game called The Battle for Wesnoth tonight. Looks kinda neat. I am emerging it now and need to remember to try it out sometime soon :)

So I found a cool module for Drupal to display guitar chord diagrams. Here's a A minor

And a C Major7

Coolness.

I found this video of Victor Wooten playing a bass solo in which he used Amazing Grace. Very awesome. Victor is just an incredible musician. I saw him perform this year at Elgin Community College Visual and Performing Arts Center and was blown away. Check this out.

I have been setting up 3 new Linux servers at work.  Two of them are on gigabit, so I set their MTU's to 9000 to increase the throughput of the gigabit interfaces.  During certain parts of setting the servers up, I saw issues.  I couldn't rsync from one of the gigabit servers to the other.  I couldn't scp files.  Well, I could scp files, but only tiny ones.  I was perplexed.  I could scp and rsync between either of the gigabit servers and the one on fast Ethernet.  I could ssh into any of the servers from any other.  Heck, the gigabit servers were even on the same subnet.  I asked friends and coworkers.  I got onto IRC.  No one had a hint.  Then I crafted a better google search and found this.  Basically, my packets were getting fragmented since the switch probably has the MTU set to 1500, which is the "normal" Ethernet MTU.  While the info at that URL blames a firewall or NAT, I found some other posts around the 'net from people that also experience it without any firewall or NAT in the way.

Anyway, I cranked the MTU back down to 1500 on all interfaces and everything now works fine.  Grr.

I meant to post this last week, but....

I've been watching American Idol this season and am very impressed with a couple of the performers.  However, wtf is wrong with Paula Abdul?  Everything she says falls into one of three categories:

1. Irrelevant
2. Doesn't make any sense
3. Inane

Her eye movement and body language also indicate to me that she is not completely sober.  Mark my words, after this season of American Idol is over, it will come out that she has some sort of drug problem or something.