zeroasterisk blog – alan blount & friends
Posted in geek on Nov 30th, 2005
Anyone else getting a flood of blog comment spam recently?
Wordpress is awesome enough to catch all of it as probably spam and put it into a moderation queue for me, but I still had 80+ comments to delete in the past week… and I have to be careful not to delete a non-spam comment… [...]
Here is my requisite turkeyday post. Anita had to work her last day today, so we are in Columbus still. She plans on not working until this summer. I’ve been encouraging her to do this… though her ~10 hours of work a week doesn’t sound like much, since she does ~60 [...]
So – the new template is up on zeroasterisk. Not only does it look different right now – this template is setup to be controlled by CSS, so I’ll be providing options on how to view the site. Until I offer those options (look in the top right hand corner of the page [...]
Posted in geek on Nov 16th, 2005
So now M$ is releaseing a version meant to cluster computers, you know, like a beowulf cluster. This is one of the worst Ideas I could think of.
Why would you use a flaky, high-overhead, and often to crash OS to run distrobuted processing? There is no good reason, in my opinion. If you are willing [...]
Posted in geek on Nov 10th, 2005
There is a beta of a site that allows anyone to create a group, and people can add themselves / photos to it, and where they are at… it uses google maps API to plot the photos on a map… really neat stuff in my opinion… so anyone who wants to spend 2 [...]
Posted in alan, event/news, general, political on Nov 9th, 2005
After reading the article: CIA prisons leak ‘to be probed’, I was overcome one specific emotion: unease (fear)… The fact that there are secret prisons and nobody knows about them scares the hell out of me.
Basically, if I was taken to prison for thinking our current government sucks (or for being [...]
Posted in alan, event/news, political on Nov 4th, 2005
Anyone wanna come march to protest the war in iraq? I’ll be there, and so will phil…
Memorial to be Held in Support of Troop Withdrawal from Iraq
Columbus OH Saturday, November 5 The OSU student peace advocacy group AntiWar Columbus will be demonstrating in support of troop withdrawal from Iraq at the Gallery Hop in [...]
My boss just sent me a link to the following article:
PHP catching on at enterprises, vying with Java
Not only is it cool my boss sent it to me, but the content of the article is great news for anyone who is a fan of PHP… (and anyone who doesn’t know if they are or not, [...]
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