because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in elsewhere, nerdliness on Mar 9th, 2010
This movie was mind bending when it originally came out in 1982, and it looks like the sequel will be just as good if not better. I may have to swallow a hand of pain killers and brave the insanity that is the current 3D movie craze to see it on a big screen.
Posted in life, nerdliness on Mar 1st, 2010
One of the many responsibilities that Sibylle has shouldered in the wake of her mother’s death has been managing the financial portion of the estate. Working with the local bank and the account manager there, Sibylle was able to figure out what automatic payments occur each month, and general was able to get a sense [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 25th, 2010
Since December 2005 I have been using Mint to track my web site statistics. Out of the box it provides a good look at who is coming to your site, how frequently, and to which pages. Better still, Mint is extensible through plugins called Peppers. Pepper-mint, get it?
Periodically the base package and or some of [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 24th, 2010
Fourteen years ago, on February 20, 1996, I registered my first Internet domain. This site has existed in one form or another ever since. In a real sense this site has been a constant in an ever shifting world. The nearly 1600 entries here cover all of the major changes in my life, and the [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 28th, 2009
I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. I appreciate seeing what the people I know are up to, but I dislike all the quizzes and games and their associated chatter. Turns out it is possible to get status updates, notifications, notes and links via RSS feed. Naturally, since Facebook wants to your share your stuff [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 10th, 2009
At work I now have four computers and five screens, all controlled from one keyboard and mouse. Here’s how I did it.
Hardware
The primary machine at work is a Mac Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.2 with 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors, and 4 GB of 667 MHz DDR2 RAM. This machine has [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Dec 9th, 2009
Four years ago, on December 5th, 2005, I installed Mint on my domain host and started accurately tracking visits to my site. This morning at about 7:30 am the 50,000th page was served to the 26,620th unique visitor.
Obviously my little personal site is way out on the power curve of the World Wide Web, but [...]
Posted in life, nerdliness on Nov 16th, 2009
In the three months or so since Sibylle and I purchased our Honda Insight Hybrid, we have averaged about 43 MPG for each tank of gas. The car’s computer has a number of displays providing all sorts of information about the car’s performance and gas milage. One of the displays shows the current miles per [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Nov 14th, 2009
MyEclipse, from Genuitec, is a popular set of plugins for the Eclipse platform. For several years I used it on my own as my primary Java development tool, and now I have an opportunity to use it in my work for the University. What follows is how I installed it for use on Mac OS [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Nov 6th, 2009
SSHFS
sshfs is a secure file system client that allows you to access and manipulate files on remote systems where that would normally be available via SFTP. sshfs is dependent upon FUSE or Filesystem in Userspace. FUSE is available for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD (as PUFFS), OpenSolaris, and Mac OS X (as MacFUSE). It was officially merged [...]