Archive for January, 2007
Latin Quotes
25 January 2007Two quotes today (or perhaps motto is more appropriate) which were commonly found on public clocks in previous years:
ultima forsan (”perhaps the last” [hour])
vulnerant omnes, ultima necat (”they all wound, and the last kills”).
and one which I actually found as a the title from a Streets song
Memento Mori (”Remember your death”) - It is a […]
Google Groups out of beta
25 January 2007Was playing around in the face recognition group that I recently signed up for and was making a post when I noticed something strange going on. Previously when posting I’d been bitten by the disparity between gmail and g-groups, pressing tab from a new email takes to the send button. Hence I normally type the […]
Insightful Quote
21 January 2007“In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism, In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.”
–David Korten
Those crazy russians
18 January 2007Winter is the time for a routine maintenance of the Matrix. In order to free up computing resources necessary for garbage collection they decrease the duration of daytime, strip trees of foliage and paint the sky in a unform gray color. All this helps to decrease the amount of computation required to render [the Matrix]. […]
George R R Martin coming to the small screen
18 January 2007HBO has acquired the rights to turn George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fantasy series “A Song of Fire & Ice” into a dramatic series to be written and exec produced by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
The series will begin with the 1996 first book, “A Game of Thrones,” and the intention is for each novel (they […]
MySQL Hassles
18 January 2007After recompiling my version of php5 to support the new wordpress widgets I started getting these messages from mysql (/var/log/mysql/mysqld.err)
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060810 12:01:52 [ERROR] Fatal error: mysql.user table is damaged or in unsupported 3.20 format.
Thankfully […]
Random freezes on my Thinkpad
16 January 2007Very interesting hardware related problem, the machine (T43) was just randomly freezing up on me. The crazy thing was that I could get it to keep going by applying pressure around the middle of the keyboard (which is where the track pointer is). Must be some kind of loose connector inside, anyways I’ve called IBM […]
Holiday Cheer
3 January 2007Howdy all, if you are reading this you there is a passing chance you might like to know how I spent my holidays. Well wonder no more for I am about to share with you the adventures of my holiday break.
Started out by heading north to my mum’s place on the sunshine coast, always […]