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mounting mac filesystems under windows

macopener – http://www.dataviz.com/products/macopener/index.html

last final ever!!!

as of 11:45 am today all my academic obligations are over. forever.

the final went well. i definitely passed it which is all that really mattered, but i may have done well enough to get an a in the class which is swee.t

est vs. edt

est = gmt – 5:00
edt = gmt – 4:00 (first sunday in april – last sunday in oct.)

perhaps this is why my time is wrong on my workstation.

softflowd
Softflowd is flow-based network traffic analyser capable of Cisco NetFlow? data export. Softflowd semi-statefully tracks traffic flows recorded by listening on a network interface or by reading a packet capture file. These flows may be reported via NetFlow? to a collecting host or summarised within softflowd itself.

Can I retrieve voicemail messages from any touch-tone phone?
Yes, you can retrieve messages from a touch-tone phone (other than your PCS Phone):

1. Dial your PCS Phone Number and wait for the call to roll to voicemail.
2. Once your voicemail greeting begins, press * (star key).
3. Enter your passcode.
4. Listen to your messages, then save or erase them.

bicycles == evil?

accreditted to a baltimore preacher in 1896:

These bladder-wheeled bicycles are diabolical devices of the demon of darkness. They are contrivances to trap the feet of the unwary and skin the nose of the innocent. They are full of guile and deceit. When you think you have broken one to ride and subdued its wild and Satanic nature, behold it bucketh you off in the road and teareth a great hole in your pants. Look not on the bike when it bloweth upon its wheels, for at last it bucketh like a bronco and hurteth like thunder. Who has skinned legs? Who has a bloody nose? Who has ripped breeches? They that dally along with the bicycle.

xml validation with XML::LibXML
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Perl/Q_20371536.html

mac ‘n’ no-cheese recipe

thanks abbey! (though i think you said you stole it from somewhere, but it doesn’t matter)

½ c. margarine, melt in pan
add ½ c. flour, stir (sometimes requires a little more flour to be thick enough, mix flour with water first into a paste and then add)
add 3 ½ c. warm water, mix
1 ½ tsp. garlic powder
1 ½ tsp. salt
2 tbsp. soy sauce
touch of tumeric
cook and stir until thick
add 1 c. nut yeast and ¼ c. oil
mix with 3 ½ c. pasta and put
in casserole dish.
save a little cheese sauce
to spread on top.
Sprinkle with paprika
Cook 15 minutes at 350 degrees

good mixed with broccoli or
Peas or some green veggie, add
Before baking.

is technology a good thing? i would generally say yes, of course as i love computers and other tech stuff and i think most who know me would say i spend inordinate amounts of time mucking about with them. one argument from the tech. == good side of things is that it lets people communicate in ways they otherwise can’t, i.e. hearing from people across the ocean or across state lines and being able to keep a running dialogue that would just turn into a lapsed friendship otherwise. lately, i’ve been writing a lot more letters, and i’ve grown to enjoy it, but i feel like letters might look cool and be nice to look at and re-read from time to time, but they only work to be markers of an ongoing friendship and not the thing that preserves a distanced friendship. on the other hand i’ve been appreciating a digital communication between my friend patrick and i as we hardly ever see each other and don’t write letters but can carry on a conversation of sorts through e-mail and by reading each other’s weblogs have some sort of context for the e-mail dialogue.

so that’s all fine and good, but what happens when you find yourself using electronic communication to communicate with someone 8 blocks away? does technology cripple us and prevent us between saying things to each other directly, or does the anonymity and ambiguity of digital words let us say things that we otherwise wouldn’t be courageous enough to say? right now i can’t help but have erin tobey’s “i’ve been writing secret letters” song running through my head. i always thought it was a beautiful song, but now, it’s suddenly not only beautiful but excitingly and frighteningly relevent.

is the fact that you’ve discovered that you’re using technology to do the exact same thing as someone else endearing, or does it mean that both of you are somehow limited from doing what needs to be done or saying what needs to be said in the way that it needs to be said?

this is going to be cryptic as hell, because i’m not sure if it belongs on the internet, but 1) this is my only form of self documentation and 2) i can keep secrets, but i don’t always like to, especially when they’re (mostly) my own.

i feel like i’ve been shocked by the capacitor on the flash circuit of one of these over and over until i’m dizzy and maybe not completely coherant, and that’s not neccessarily a bad thing. i’m just confused, and again, not neccessarily in a bad way, but i have a feeling that i have to be very careful so i don’t fuck up something good. i feel like i’m suddenly preoccupied with something which is awesome and really great, but intellectually or rather sensibly, i don’t want to by preoccupied with that thing to extent that it’s something that i think about all the time and rearrange my life around. it’s hard because that’s exactly what i want to do in the short term, but in the long run, experience has told me that that’s not how i want things to be. so i just have to be cautious and i think things could be amazing or at least different and special.