General

Upgraded to WordPress 2.3.3

WordPress 2.3.3 has been released. $ svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.3.3 U wp-includes/gettext.php U wp-includes/version.php U wp-includes/pluggable.php C xmlrpc.php U wp-admin/install-helper.php Updated to...
MacMusic

XO Wave Free

While cruising freshmeat the other day, I stumbled upon a free multi-track digital audio program called XO Wave. I played with it. I didn't care for the UI, which was very un-Mac-like and looked like it might've resulted from...
Music

Guitar Pro

I want to be able to transcribe my riffs and licks so that I can more easily show them to people that I jam with. Vlad and Howie suggested Guitar Pro (wikipedia), which does transcribing and also can play your riffs at various...
General

PageRank 3

For some time, I had built up to a PageRank of 6, according to http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/. Then, I had someone deface my site with spam links hidden inside HTML comments and Google picked up on that and flatlisted...
Programming

Setuid demystified

Interesting that the Unix calls for setting user ids of processes are so varied and so complex, that they warranted an entire paper. I only skimmed, but I did get a pretty good description of the "saved uid" parameter of the...
Fitness

45 year old six pack

Saw a friend of mine the other day (who is a personal trainer) and he let me know that he recently started a blog where he has been writing about fitness, nutrition, and inspiration. He's got some very interesting content on...