The meaning of fear.
My Internet in the hands of the UN? I guess this means when someone poisons DNS they will send a sharply-worded letter, or maybe Hans Blix will come inspect the offender’s UNIX servers.
And from Hollywood, a savior arose…
Thank goodness Barbra is back to set us straight! Nothing like a little timely politics to make sure your album dates itself at the earliest opportunity. My favorite bit: Streisand and Gibb first worked together on her best-selling 1980 album “Guilty,” which contained hits like the title track and “Woman …
Oh boy, Oldboy.
Eleya and I watched Chanwook Park’s fabulously twisted and sumptuously shot revenge epic Oldboy last night. It’s not hard to see why this film garnered the Grand Prix at Cannes, since it is gripping from start to finish and features incredible acting, some tense action scenes, and a story with …
Feint for the faint of heart.
Word to the wise: DON’T use the new kernel packages I prepared. They will cause spurious lockups when disk activity rises over a certain level. The libata/ATAPI code is not ready for prime time. John Linville said as much in the bug I referenced, but I wanted to try it …
Project Exhaustion, phase 1 complete.
Friday night I did a gig at Bistro Europa in Alexandria, with the band for whom I’ve been doing hired-gun duty. The gig went well, but I realized how unaccustomed I’ve become to three-set shows covering the 10:00 p.m. to 1:15 a.m. (“last call”) hours. Thankfully, my old buddy caffeine …
Slow CD drives.
If you have an Intel ICH6M-based SATA controller, and you use Fedora Core 4, you may be seeing a problem like this. My ThinkPad T43 won’t record at full speed to CD-R, nor read back at full speed, which is somewhat of an annoyance. Fortunately, John Linville at Red Hat …
More gig news.
In case you weren’t on my email spam-o-rama last week, I have a gig with Leah and my other customary partners in crime at The Loft at Frederick’s in downtown Fredericksburg (VA) next Thursday, October 6. Please make plans to come by and enjoy the music in this premiere non-smoking …
New gun in town.
I had a good rehearsal last night with the Lianna band. It’s nice being the hired gun, because you don’t have to take the performance so personally. And, as I discovered, when the singer wants to hang out and jam for a few bars, the hired gun is at an …
Home sweet home.
We just returned home from a week’s vacation, blissfully Internet-free, in Maine. The place we stayed was wonderful and the sea air was just what I needed to clear my head of all the various and current claims on my time. Now to apply nose liberally to grindstone.