http://shazow.net/blog The cake is a lie Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:18:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the perks of being sick and working from home is getting to answer all those fun telemarketer calls. Telemarketer: Would you like a free Toronto Sun newspaper subscription for six weeks? Me: No. T: How about just a weekend? M: No. T: Do you read any other papers? M: No... T: Well then, how do ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/07/03/do-your-tubes-have-deep-coverage/ Rare as my posts are, Twitter has been siphoning whatever exhibitionist energy I have. You can follow me on Twitter if you're interested in my day-to-day comments. Why Twitter? Few years ago, I had an idea for a "one-liner blog" where one would post short one-line thoughts multiple times per day. ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/06/11/twitter-ate-my-blog/ You've heard of memcached, haven't you? Made by Livejournal to sustain millions of angst-ridden teen diaries, now used by web giants like Slashdot, Digg, Wikipedia, Facebook, Youtube, and countless more. Even this very Wordpress blog supports it. The same misconception seems to haunt all those unfamiliar with the memcached: it's some sort ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/04/22/misconceptioned-memcached/ Today, you'll get to hear about what I've been up to! This wont be on the exam. After a year and a half stint with Ubuntu, I'm back to my true love Gentoo. That is, with a shiny matte new quad core beast of a machine. Bought Rockband for my PS3 couple ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/04/02/gentoo-rockband-code-and-music/ Sony's Blu-ray beat out Microsoft's HD-DVD in the hi-def wars. Sony stock is going up. Microsoft stock not so much, especially with the recent bid at Yahoo. Scientology is now censoring eBay, as its has been permitted to arbitrarily delete auctions. Boycott time? J.J. Abrams, an ex-Scientologist and producer of Lost and ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/02/23/blu-ray-scientology-and-j-j-abrams/ The Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am released an inspirational music video remixing Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" speech. The remix features various people singing and reciting parts of the speech. The only non-English lyrics are Hebrew. Just saying. Nevermind, spotted some sign language, Spanish, and possibly some Asian dialect I can't really ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/02/02/politics-photoshop-and-kanye/ It's fun writing code that tells a story. Hopefully it's also fun reading it. class TerminationNotice(Exception): "Exception raised inside a thread when it's time for it to die." pass class SuicideJob(QueryJob): "A worker receiving this job will commit suicide." def ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/01/24/code-storytelling/ Back up my precious save files: Formatted my external hard drive to FAT32, plugged it into the PS3, went to System Settings > Backup Utility, and hit OK. While it's backing up, I'm reading various Playstation 3 hacking forums, such as ps2dev.org where the first hack to utilize the locked-away GPU ... http://shazow.net/blog/2008/01/20/installing-gentoo-on-playstation-3/ ... to all my readers. Everyone else is not important. http://shazow.net/blog/2008/01/01/happy-new-year/ Inspired by xkcd. http://shazow.net/blog/2007/12/06/python-humour/