Category Archives: Riot Nrrd

Many of you feel bad for this rover

Posted on 31 January, 2010 by Mike

This is because you’re crazy!

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Rantlet

Posted on 30 December, 2009 by Mike

“Didn’t you get the message I sent you?” “No, what message? When?” “I sent it last week.” “To my mailbox?” “Yeah!” [rummage rummage rummage] “No, not here.” “Really? I’m looking at it right now.” “What address did you send it … Continue reading →

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For old time's sake

Posted on 29 August, 2009 by Mike

I unsubscribed from a bunch of mailing lists I don’t read anymore in an attempt to cut down on the amount of e-mail I need to deal with on a day-to-day basis. One of them was still managed not by … Continue reading →

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Edit geek

Posted on 25 July, 2009 by Mike

My inner editor’s soul loves this. So much color!

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Weapons grade stupidity

Posted on 11 July, 2009 by Mike

Do not, if you value your sanity, time, or generosity, read the comments attached to this blog entry. Especially if you know anything about Richard Stallman. The short version is that the original poster, David Schlesinger, makes a lot of … Continue reading →

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Pensee

Posted on 12 June, 2009 by Mike

There are few things more disheartening to a nerd than trying to retrieve data off a hard drive that is in the process of failing intermittently. It’s like playing a kind of backwards slot machine: how much data will come … Continue reading →

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Ahhh.

Posted on 4 June, 2009 by Mike

After 6+ months of letting it pile up in my mailbox, I have managed to reduce my “unread, unsorted, and unreplied-to” collection of e-mail from 3,651 messages to 0. Okay, I had to vaporize a bunch of mailing list traffic … Continue reading →

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Giving up

Posted on 23 May, 2009 by Mike

So let’s give this a go, shall we? I’m caving in. From brief experimentation, I think this is a much better idea than trying to cram everything together locally. I hate that it has come to this, but… why solve … Continue reading →

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Learn to suffer

Posted on 21 May, 2009 by Mike

I would really appreciate it if someone could explain to me why I shouldn’t just say “screw it” and spend $24.95 on a Flickr account instead of fighting with locally installed software. Because it’s the manly thing to do? Because … Continue reading →

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Philosophical technology

Posted on 7 May, 2009 by Mike

So there’s been this really interesting thread on nanog of late, about address allocation in IPv6 address space, which hinges on a very strange question: can you be too wasteful with something that seems like it shouldn’t run out? The … Continue reading →

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