Stepto 1.31.07 never forget. http://bit.ly/fJ9aDs
IPv4Countdown The number of allocatable IPv4s just dropped below ten million. #IPv6
Wow, NC winter, 65°F and sunny! http://twitpic.com/3uxcsf
But it was not a day of total geekery. We also got to visit the farm next door to check on the bees and the chickens.
Spent the afternoon hacking on DNS-SD. Learned a lot. And now I can print from my iphone!
Wondering why Mac, iPhone and iPod all flood my network with DNS requests like “dr._dns-sd._udp.yada”. Learning about “Service discovery”.
Trying some local honey… from the farm behind our house… it doesn’t get any more local than that!
Very sad to see my good friend and co-worker, Jay, returning to his home in India. But happy for his prospects there.
@mikbre Ah yes, that didn’t come out right, did it? Of course, I meant “the crappy flash app that Pandora wants you to use”.
I just discovered “pianobar”, a lightweight console-based Linux app to play Pandora radio (b/c the native flash app is a pig).
@anjibee a song for chillcast: “Center Of The Sun (feat. Conjure One)” by “Solar Stone” on “The Best Of Chillout”, heard on pandora
thetorpedodog IPv4 exhaustion party: everybody brings an EXTREMELY SMALL amount of alcohol and pretends to be surprised when it’s gone.
@motersho It’s because of Windows!
At the office cafeteria, the woman before me in line paid for my breakfast. So what could I do? I paid for the next guy’s! #PassItOn
Schneier: Shutting WikiLeaks down won’t stop government secrets from leaking any more than shutting Napster down stopped illegal filesharing
@Oatmeal Sadly, that says more about CNN than it does about you or Tumblr.
CarolinaCon updates for #CarolinaCon, first 4 speakers, hotel info and Call for Presenters http://bit.ly/he0Tvn
PHP problem had to do with copying arrays. Must do “$a=array_values($b)” to copy the array ELEMENTS. “$a=$b” just copies the array POINTER.
To our friends in India, Happy Republic Day!
Hunting down the cause of “Fatal error: Nesting level too deep - recursive dependency?” in PHP code… ugh.
@nivex That’s sad… I just gave that page the Instapaper “read later” click.
@shawnp0wers …or on the bedspread. I can feel your pain.
I sense a change in my future. Manager is asking me to “clean up” what I’m working on. Maybe they got wise and will fire me soon.
I know it’s very “web 1.0” of me, but I am waiting for the SotU transcript, rather than watching the video.
@nivex Make your shareholders happy.
Remy Man, if only we knew how the founding fathers felt about forcing private citizens to buy health insurance.
Oh, wait.
http://is.gd/bKLq5o
Spent most of this afternoon making an audio podcast with my eight year old daughter!
Cheeky video with Ronnie Corbett from BBC: “My blackberry isn’t working” http://t.co/fnz9MGr (via @RickDeNatale)
@alyankovic You have pockets, right?
Either I am starving my dog, or the “daily feeding guide” on the dog food box errs on the side of “buy too much, waste too much”.
What is YOUR sleep number?
Dude just told me WAY more than I wanted to know about his girlfriend’s .. uh .. “flair”. #jewelry
Polymers! http://twitpic.com/3sfukq
Found lots of goodies in my ham radio box: a 1992 cassette tape of our chat with STS-47 astronaut on shuttle Endeavour! Ripping to MP3 now.
Dug my old Morse code keyer out of a box, letting the kids try dits and dahs using a paddle.
@mikbre @pwbrewer In this case, Python got the job done, where job = “script that tweets”. Perl examples are also welcome.
@pwbrewer directions here -> http://jeffmiller.github…
splat_space now in high-res, the awesome 3.5 minute documentary that @KristenELong made about @splat_space! http://j.mp/edsJEW
@pwbrewer I have a python twitter script, but no perl examples.
To my neighbor, who has RoadRunner and an open wifi… thanks!
D’oh! AT&T residential DSL outage in Cary!
chuck_kesler Yes, STS135 is official! Atlantis will fly one more time: http://www.msnbc.msn.com…
I’m livin’ the dream…
@alanjporter Wiki weirdness at my office, topic naming convention like “AlexaTwoDotZeroDotOneReleaseNotes” #hurtsmybrain
@danlondon Cringely says it’s “BufferBloat” http://feedproxy.google….
Today is the work day that would not give up. #WFH
Beautiful full moon on the horizon.
@clubjuggler & @fromagefacile - That was not my office… that was just the staging/clean-up area! Now, where to put those two OVENS??
Cleaning my home office… I’m gonna need a dump truck to get rid of all of this junk! http://twitpic.com/3qo3w3
Just what I have always wanted — a “virtual oven”. #tmio #virtualbox
I have replaced my file cabinet with a USB flash drive.
Considering using a separate Firefox profile just for Facebook.
Redecorating the cafeteria at @tekelec - replacing with the new logo? http://twitpic.com/3q1vui
ArapahoeNation Start thinking of your super power and nick name…Spring Outing 2011 will be Superhero Academy!
trilug TriLUG meeting starts in about an hour. Tonight’s topic is “Device Mapper - RAID, LVM and LUKS”. Info & map at http://trilug.org
ExploreSpaceKSC STS-133 Discovery launch now targeted for Feb. 24 at 4:50 pm. ET. STS-134 Endeavour launch is now targeted for April 19 at 7:48 pm ET.
Dear spreadsheet tools… please enter what I typed, and not Your Crazy Mis-Capitalized Interpretation Of What I Typed. Thanks.
@alanjporter Run Windows in a VM (where it belongs). Upgrade one VM while you’re working in a 2nd VM. No downtime. #VirtualBox
Wow, an old junker PC I inherited from my previous employer is still under warranty. The PC warranty lasted longer than the company!
Froggies! http://twitpic.com/3pi0e0
Sydney spent the morning at my office, observing what we do… y’ know, eating b’fast, writing on white boards, drinking coffee, ping pong.
My Twitter client, “Choqok” says it’s supposed to be pronounced like “tʃŔˈÊÊŠk”. THAT really cleared it up!
@nivex done!
Watching “WKRP in Cincinnati” with my kids.
Just installed Office 2010 at work… wow… just wow… what an assault on the senses. Outlook “home” screen disturbs my zen.
. @frijole: Owning a plane CAN be cheap, I used to co-own 10 planes along with 300 of my close friends at http://wingsofcarolina.o…
After making a little bit of noise: specs— and UX++
At that sad phase of my project where I have to un-do usability improvements so the UI complies with written requirements.
@mikbre I am blessed with bad taste… those crappy Ubuntu apps will go well with my crappy Dell laptop.
Apple’s so excited about their Mac App Store. Ubuntu’s had that since it debuted 2004. And better yet, all of the prices are $0. #freedom
The year in review, “Porter Family News” - http://AlanPorter.com/?n…
BadAstronomer Hey, the Quadrantid meteor shower is tonight (and the next few nights). Usually a good one: http://is.gd/k21Cf
BadAstronomer Today is the day Earth snuggles as close to the Sun as it gets all year: perihelion! Celebrate by shoveling snow. http://is.gd/k1F3g
Cool use of 2-D bar codes - info on caring for flowers. http://twitpic.com/3miicx
@jbroome It’s getting worse! Now I am installing LILO on an old Mandrake image! Guess who set us up with THAT.
Installing a 2006 copy of Linux on a VM so I can get some old software to compile.
shawnp0wers I’ve been wearing the same underwear all year.
The black eyed peas bring good luck. The collard greens bring money. But the cranberry salad brings a smile to my face. (@ D&S cafeteria)
Blog post by me: “Using SSH to tunnel web traffic” - http://blog.alanporter.c…
apelad May I be the first to wish you a chillax broham in 2011.
It sure is hard to come up with new year’s resolutions, when you’re perfect in every way.