U.S. Retail Gasoline Prices The DOE spreadsheet with historical data is great for figuring out my out-of-pocket expenses related to all the driving I do for my non-profit theater company. I can look up the weeks we were running and compute it for my tax returns.
Matt Simmons over at Standalone Sysadmin is on vacation, and apparently has made the mistake of letting me write an article for his blog. 🙂 Thanks Matt!
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com Excellent photos, excellent article.
When asked about making our data center a green data center, my friend and coworker Terry Bradshaw always responds with: “Sea foam or forest, you can have it in any color green you want.” There really isn’t a way to make a data center green beyond painting it. Your corporation, your organization can go green. Your data center can’t. You can certainly make it more green (or, rather, less not-green) by making it more efficient. But no matter how efficient it is it’ll still be a power-hungry room stacked full of metal boxes made via environmentally-unfriendly techniques, each filled with toxic chemicals and requiring hazardous waste disposal techniques when their lives are over every few years. Virtualization can certainly improve …
YouTube – The Count Censored ROFL — selectively censoring the Count from Sesame Street. Safe for work. Quantum teleportation between distant matter qubits | Science Blog I wonder when we'll get ansibles. 🙂 This is pretty cool, transmitting data via quantum entanglement over a meter with 90% precision.
After seeing this I’ve decided I need a tilt-shift lens: In case an aggregator is stripping the object out it’s Helpless from Keith Loutit — he’s got several other videos up there. “Metal Heart” is pretty sweet, too.
The Survivor – December 1, 2004 Seems like Carol Bartz is a good pick for Yahoo. Plus she's a UW CS grad, rock on.
“After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.” – De la Lastra’s Corollary There’s probably a linear relationship between the work needed to secure said access cover and the likelihood of omitting the gasket. As usual, from Michael Moncur’s Cynical Quote Collection over at QOTD.
I don’t know about you, but shortly after I hear a cool term I think, “that would be a good machine name.” The most recent instance of this is “cloaca,” Latin for “sewer.” Quality subversive machine names are so hard to find.
I’ve always been a bit of a risk taker, at least in certain areas of my life. One of those areas has always been technology. With my laptop’s Vista installation showing signs of wear I decided to go for broke and install the Windows 7 beta on the machine that is my office away from the office, my Dell Latitude D830. I’m on day three now, and it’s the Vista that should have been. I love it. All of my software works, except my antivirus package. Microsoft Office works. Adobe CS4 works. iTunes works, though not with my iPhone Remote app. Last.fm works. SecureCRT works. Azureus works. Adobe Lightroom works. Firefox works, with Gears and Delicious plugins. Java, too. The …