The O’Blog

hoo-ah!
This is quite nice and will definitely help at some point in time.
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com

I've been running across a few pretty neat things on macosxhints and other forums lately and I wanted to save them here.
Dramatically reduce the CPU usage of 'top'
Use a software-only keyboard/mouse 'switchbox'
Change the iPod battery display style
Edit MPEG files using QuickTime Player Pro
Open an X11 query from Terminal.app
Burning Nero .nrg images under OS X

I'm still trying to grasp why this movie is so great. It had it's moments and it's a very “read between the lines” type of movie, but I guess I just can't clamour over it like others do. However, I just found this juicy bit. A translation of the commercial shoot. [...]

The BBC does a primer on what all those odd symbols mean in elite speak. I notice that they don't bother telling you how to pronounce any of them either, which is something I wouldn't mind seeing. It's my opinion that they just translate into the word it's bastardizing. For instance, h4×0r [...]

Argh…okay. I've got far too many tabs and minimized windows saved here in Safari and it's really starting to bog it all down. I need to flush it out. So I'm just going to list off what I was saving for separate entries in one big entry.
First up: Drumming
Never saw this [...]

Hot damn! Even better than the original and it works in all browsers.
http://color.twysted.net/

From time to time you may throw on -san to someone's name in an attempt to mimic the Japanese culture, but do you really know the proper uses and meanings?
http://www.tatersalad.org/jaerik/japanese/namesuffixes.html

Okay, so here I am trying to set up a multidomain email server for our box at work. I'm way out of my league on this one, but it's somehow my job. So anyways, after a week of attempts of getting nowhere, I think I'm on the right track with this one particular [...]

Ok, so it's v-day/my b-day and I'm not doing a thing and it's really not bothering me. My parents left town for their own “special night” and want me to hang around in Stoughton and give Neo his drugs at the appropriate times. Rather boring really, but at least I can dig through [...]

I can't get enough of these
If affirmative action means what I'm for, I'm for it.
Presidential Debate, St. Louis, October 18, 2000
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
Campaign Speech, LaCrosse, Wis., October 2000

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/bush.htm