Benson's Blag

Is it just me, or is today’s shirt.woot.com awesome?

May 2nd

This angers me… RT @ryanaraine: MRI machines powered by Windows? http://tinyurl.com/dmfpxs

May 2nd

Holy shit! Mercurial / Git interop! RT @dalmaer: Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin http://ff.im/-2tV2n

May 1st

Looks like Macports is not smart enough to upgrade xproto when xorg-libX11 depends on a more recent...

May 1st

Beak handles threading and replies better than any other client I have seen.

May 1st

Check out http://doihaveswineflu.org (via @elliottkember)

Apr 30th

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Apr 29th

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Apr 29th

Checking out the google maps API, trying some simple overlay animation. Seems button shadows get...

Apr 29th

Ordered a really nice looking Razer keyboard from sellout.woot. Been wanting a new keyboard for...

Apr 29th

Parents’ new garden

Apr 28th

Having used Tweetie on my OSX machine for a few days now, I’m back to Nambu, and feeling good...

Apr 28th

Wooooo, cupcake! http://tinyurl.com/c2b7ud

Apr 28th

http://twitpic.com/42uky - Parents’ new garden

Apr 28th

The dot language is actually pretty awesome for whipping up quick flow diagrams. Graphviz ftw.

Apr 28th

Session Fixation Attacks (as in the recently fixed OAuth bug) are really slick.

Apr 26th

I love the —keep-going flag on emerge. Best. Thing. Ever. (This is the first time I’ve...

Apr 26th

This is the best workout my CPU has gotten for ages. Emerging 900+ packages. Once they’re...

Apr 26th

I often used to long for a utility that would enable fast unencrypted transfers with ssh auth. Found...

Apr 25th

Emerging lots of things. While I love gentoo and think it’s better than the alternatives, this...

Apr 25th

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Apr 24th

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Apr 24th

My C program ended up being all object-oriented. Either it was an OOPy problem, or I’ve been...

Apr 24th

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Apr 24th

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Apr 23rd

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Apr 23rd

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Apr 23rd

RT @Furyofsolace Joss and Co. are hoping to shoot the next installment of Dr. Horrible in the spring...

Apr 22nd

RT @burke_eric Words wike “Wiimote” and “Twibes” make me think we are all...

Apr 22nd

Wow, tweetie is purty.

Apr 21st

Nambu forkbombed me. WTF?

Apr 21st

It may be accurate, but I’m getting really goddamned tired of hearing the term “social...

Apr 21st

Just took the time to set up Locale to manage power and loc settings on my phone. Hawt.

Apr 21st

I am very impressed with twitroid, but still not sure about following twitter that closely.

Apr 21st

RT @puredanger ArrrayList: behaves like ArrayList except on talk like a pirate day adds random...

Apr 20th

Oracle buys sun?! I thought IBM was going to do that… http://tinyurl.com/d4dbum

Apr 20th

I’d Rather Be Sailing

Apr 19th

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Apr 19th

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Apr 18th

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Apr 18th

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Apr 18th

Just updated nambu and now it’s showing me tweets from 3 days ago…wtf?

Apr 18th

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Apr 18th

Maybe I’ll give canary another shot while Nambu sorts itself out.

Apr 18th

http://twitpic.com/3hpvw - I’d Rather Be Sailing

Apr 18th

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Apr 18th

RT @micheleboyd:Why the f*@! is CNN telling me Ashton won the 1 mill. followers...

Apr 17th

Nambu bugfixes FTMFW. This client’s getting better and better. :-D

Apr 17th

RT @defunkt:Protip: Decide on a password to use in case your future self ever needs to contact your...

Apr 16th

RT @ioerror:I wish the TeaParty people would throw themselves into a bay. Idiots. Tongodeon pwns...

Apr 16th

Hear, Hear! RT @overtfascist:This Merriam-Webster upsell message makes me never want to use their...

Apr 15th

bbcp appears to fail at files with spaces in their names. So that sucks.

Apr 15th

This looks like a really useful list of maven links: http://tinyurl.com/d8rm6t (via @puredanger)

Apr 15th

Maven assemblies are one of the best things to ever happen to java. It makes packaging a jar with...

Apr 15th

This is really quite clever and funny: RT @fuzzy_waffle:http://the-hybrid.appspot.com/

Apr 15th

Well, as cool as canary is, it just doesn’t compete with Nambu yet.

Apr 15th

RT @al3x:I’d be protesting taxes too if I had a third-grade education, crappy job, and an...

Apr 15th

RT @TheOnion:Day 85: Obama was totally about to stop illegal wiretapping, but got distracted by the...

Apr 15th

I’m checking out the Canary twitter client, it seems really cool. http://www.canaryapp.com/...

Apr 15th

RT @al3x:I’m in the clear! http://shouldiusescala.com/

Apr 15th

This rocks. RT @sirus: Visualizing Sorting Algorithms without animation: http://bit.ly/uTvC

Apr 15th

RT @azaaza: This kind of interaction is far too much fun. http://www.hurl.ws/1upb

Apr 15th

Wooo, taxes complete! And way ahead of the deadline, too!

Apr 14th

“That said, only a moron would use tabs to format their code.” —@codinghorror

Apr 14th

haha RT @al3x:My bikeshed’s got jets.

Apr 13th

Rosemary Flowers!

Apr 12th

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Apr 12th

The lighting just got perfect…

Apr 12th

Awesome, flic.kr is owned by flicker: http://flic.kr/bensonk42

Apr 11th

http://twitpic.com/34tdb - The lighting just got perfect…

Apr 11th

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Apr 11th

http://twitpic.com/34rqx - Rosemary Flowers!

Apr 11th

Finally got around to grouping people in Nambu. Well worth the time it took.

Apr 11th

RT @sirus:Encarta is dead! Long live Wikipedia!

Apr 10th

I do dearly love Stevey’s Blog Rants.

Apr 10th

I keep forgetting to use ubiquity. It’s so freaking cool, though. :-)

Apr 10th

RT @duwanis:Everything “will change the world” in one way or another. Please stop using...

Apr 9th

RT @ryanaraine:google street car meets low bridge (use arrow) http://twurl.nl/15i5ys

Apr 9th

RT (for hilarity) @gattaca:Someone in this meeting put on his big boy pants. Sadly, they’re...

Apr 9th

Awesome post… RT @gattaca:Blog post: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream...

Apr 9th

Seriously Adobe? I try to install @air and it says, “Fuck off, you’re using the wrong...

Apr 9th

Anyone who writes code (or uses a computer, for that matter) should read this article:...

Apr 9th

It’d be nice to have something like Nambu for my linux machine. Any suggestions?

Apr 9th

Testing out the macports wine port. It appears to work: http://tinyurl.com/dau8ln

Apr 9th

Awesome client visualization by @dacort: http://tinyurl.com/ceywht

Apr 9th

Too bad they never made any sequels. http://xkcd.com/566/

Apr 9th

(Vote for Molly, naturally) RT @Molly23: If you haven’t voted, go. Now. Run....

Apr 9th

It seems @netvibes is forgetting my read status on feed items occasionally. Not a regression...

Apr 8th

Been listening to a lot of Jimmy Buffett lately, and thinking about sailing in the Caribbean. Wanna...

Apr 8th

Cairoplot (https://launchpad.net/cairoplot) looks like a beautiful library for making charts in...

Apr 8th

“If it’s a CA-certified signed rootkit or worm, you know you’ve been infected by the good...

Apr 7th

Anybody who’s in the habit of putting an empty line between all declarations in java want to...

Apr 6th

RT @fuzzy_waffle:I wish I could filter out all microsoft tech specific questions on stackoverflow.

Apr 6th

RT @hypatiadotca: Nightmare… artist gets his work stolen then is sued for infringing on his...

Apr 5th

RT @drhorrible All the birds are singing that you’re gonna die.

Apr 4th

It’s fun to run into the same people (hi @jholloway7) on different social networks (twitter...

Apr 4th

Just created a brand new account at Mulesource because their backend expired my old password without...

Apr 4th

Looks like http://www.google.com/chrome is 404ing right now, along with a lot of other chrome pages....

Apr 4th

FORTRAN considered harmful.

Apr 4th

Thanks and kudos to @mulejockey for sorting out my login problem in short order. I’m...

Apr 4th

RT @tatango_andrew:@adrianpike catching up on some reading: http://twitpic.com/2rwch

Apr 4th

Awesome. RT @jf:AppArmor works so well it took me over an hour to figure out why MySQL wasn’t...

Apr 4th

Conficker Eye Chart: http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/infection_test/cfeyechart.html (via...

Apr 3rd

Seriously? The android market just crashed when I closed the keyboard. Unimpressive, @google,...

Apr 3rd

RT @gotcaffeine:New blog post: What being open minded really means.....

Apr 3rd

RT @fuzzy_waffle:Ahh silly non-science people trying to use charts and graphs. No one tells them you...

Apr 2nd

Nambu is not auto-polling the twitter server, I have to hit refresh if I want to see new tweets....

Apr 2nd

RT @drkiki:RT: @GeoffLiving Ralph Waldo Emerson had it right: “What you do speaks so loud I...

Apr 2nd

RT @mavenbook:Some independent advice… “Don’t put repositories in your...

Apr 2nd

RT @hdmoore:the best cert for security professionals: http://www.asscert.com/ (a must-have for...

Apr 2nd

This is not a good way to keep your users happy.

Apr 2nd

Me: I’d like to view Mule docs. Confluence: Please log in. Me: Okay. Confluence: We expired...

Apr 2nd

RT @naominiles:Save EI6 now http://www.saveie6.com

Apr 2nd

LMAO RT @gattaca:CDC confirms that conficker has made the cross species jump to humans. The rate of...

Apr 1st