WordPress is a far better blogging system, regardless of whether I'm a Drupal developer or not.

Hey all,

I'm not really using this blog anymore. I'll be updating my Facebook page far more often. This site is staying up until I figure out how to use it :).

Nick

Okay so today I realized that every link I was clicking in Google was running through a URL redirector (http://www.google.com/url) and this really torqued me. Google tends to be invasive enough as it is with the way it tracks people's movements, but figuring out which link they click, every time they click on a search result is just _wrong_. That's taking the tracking to far and I now deem it time to fight back.

So I fired up Greasemonkey, however before I started in on my script I decided to check online to see if someone else was equally irked and had already saved me the trouble of writing a script. Turns out there is!

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10448

I dropped that script into Greasemonkey, hard-refreshed a search results page and bam! No more evil.

Yay!

Not that anyone who reads this cares... I don't have many Electronica loving friends :).

But the Underground has returned and is brodcasting to a limited audience. The station's name has been changed to Vox Obscura (Thanks Devin!) because I suck at creating catchy names (seriously... Dark Catalyst?!).

This makes me happy, it's been too long since I was on the 'air'. I'm hoping to add channels soon but I have to keep an eye on bandwidth, I don't have much to spare.

I want to rant about a particular someone at my job and their abusive tendencies.

Unfortunately I can't without exposing people who trust me with their secrets.

This frustrates the living hell out of me.

How do you tell someone to seek professional help without telling them to seek professional help? :P

So I got a request to install Subversion 1.5 on our master dev server because it has uber merge support. Now Debian admins out there know that Debian doesn't ship with 1.5, it's too new. It shows up in Lenny but not Etch. So I went a-huntin' and discovered the following blog post:

http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/article/198

This article shows the proper way to build an upgrade for Etch's subversion package. Hope this helps anyone else out there that's looking for a quick hack to get Subversion 1.5 on their Etch box.

Yeah I know... those of you that know me well will be a bit shocked at this point, but this one makes sense for me :).

Last.fm is a sort of social networking site for people that love music, or even just like music. I've only had my new account (as compared to my old one from '06) active for about a day now and I've already found several new artists that I love and more that I simply enjoy listening to. This is actually a bit of a shock for me as my predominant music tastes lean toward European electronica, specifically trance and uplifting trance (yep, there's a difference).

Music, correction good music in these genres is hard to find in the US. Our 'electronica' scene seems to focus more on the edgier, mass-produced themes prevalent in pop and hip-hop. Don't get me wrong, I like pop, and a little hip-hop but I don't connect with them. It's nice to find a site where I can explore my own tastes, particularly since I always feel like I'm in need of more music (who isn't :)).

I'd encourage anyone who's constantly on the hunt for new artists and musical styles to check the site out and sign up. While you're doing that, you might want to check out Pandora too if you haven't already. It's another great service that allows to to discover new artists and music styles. You can find me on here on Last.fm.

Good hunting!

"Let's go watch something cheerful."

This after 3 of us geeks sat here for 5 minutes listening to an archive of failing hard drive sounds.

(Names have been changed to protect the guilty)

Sales Girl 1: HEY i'M HAVING TROUBLE W/ MY GMAIL
Sales Girl 1: oh maybe the caps are the trouble
Sales Girl 1: yup
Sales Girl 1: that was it. sorry for the interruption

...
*sigh*

(Parody of this clip from the Emperor's New Groove)

I know, I'll turn him into a packet
a harmless little packet.
and then I'll send that packet to a POP
and I'll send that packet to another POP
and then they'll queue that packet on their edge
and when it arrives... hahahahah
I'LL SMASH THEM WITH A HAMMER!
It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant I tell you! Genius I say!
... or to save on bandwidth, i'll just arp-poison them, with THIS!