A Brief History of Unix
Back in 2004, I posted an extremely brief history of Unix to the SDF internal BBS. I recently found a copy of it and am posting it here for posterity.
Recent Articles
Finally, My New Layout
Graphic design is hard! Let’s go shopping!
Total Nerd Meme
It’s like a chain letter, but for Unix nerds.
HOWTO: Get rid of that revolting faux-3D Dock in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
I don’t like relying on undocumented hacks, but I hate Apple’s new Dock so much that I’ll try anything.
Recent Bookmarks
These are periodically retrieved from my my Delicious account.
Homemade Ginger Ale
Here’s a nice recipe for making your own ginger ale.
The Atlantic: What Makes Us Happy?
“Last fall, I spent about a month in the file room of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, hoping to learn the secrets of the good life. The project is one of the longest-running—and probably the most exhaustive—longitudinal studies of mental and physical well-being in history. Begun in 1937 as a study of healthy, well-adjusted Harvard sophomores (all male), it has followed its subjects for more than 70 years.”
Spartanburg Spark: Because Spartanburg Matters
My hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina is growing up and now has its own left-leaning alternative opinion blog. I hope this takes off and becomes something like City Pages and Vita.MN here in the Twin Cities.
Skimmer
Skimmer is a great Adobe Air application that pulls together all of those social media applications that you’re using. It was developed for Fallon here in Minnesota by the fine folks at Sierra Bravo.
Penny SMS
This service provides a convenient XML-RPC API to send text messages. The service only costs a penny for each text message sent.
Is the Supremacy of Object-Oriented Programming Over?
Dean Wampler’s blog post highlights some of the difficulties with OOP. He doesn’t really have a problem with OOP itself, just our blind reliance on it for all these years.
IE6 Update
“IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update.” I don’t think I’ll be deploying this on any of my sites, but I admire the project’s devious intent.
Jakob Jenkov: Flex Tetris Tutorial
Jakob Jenkov shows you how to implement a simple Tetris clone with Adobe Flex.
Twitter Activity
@wilshipley Nice work on the new Delicious Library iPhone app.
Just got done chasing my roommate’s cat around the house with my new Airzooka toy that @JoeJuba gave me.
Just got banned from saying that I’m Rocking the Garden, even though I’m at Rock The Garden.
@geek_scientist Looks like you’re having the same problem. It looks like the activation servers are working again, so try again?
I was all excited to install the iPhone 3.0 firmware, but iTunes says the “iPhone activation server is temporarily unavailable.” Bummer.
@lof I’ve lived in Saint Paul for three years and still need a map to get around.
“What Makes Us Happy?” Amazing article in The Atlantic about a decades-long study. http://tinyurl.com/pq72me
I never thought I’d see people get married at a roller derby bout, it’s happening now.
Dude, #StarTrek was awesome.
Tonight’s #minnedemo was awesome as usual, but I wish I could have seen all of the presentations.
