The O’Blog

I ran across far too much stuff in the downtime that I might as well post it all here. Some of it I lost, which is too bad.

Synergy – basically a software kvm sans the v. Install it on either mac, windows or *nix and basically use 1 keyboard or mouse to control [...]

God, what a week, er rather month this has been.
First off it's been ages since I was paid for any of the freelance work I've been doing. I've been flat broke for far too long. I don't know who these people think they are, but I've had it with them. [...]

….so I can play my original trilogy.
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/ap/20040915/109528362000.html
George is officially stuck up and comes across as a complete ass in this interview. Basically, we'll never see the original Star Wars again. If you want it, go check out your old VHS tapes.

I know this is old, and it might even be from the old o'blog, but I ran across it again and thought I'd put it in here. A very graphical explanation of how sub-pixel rendering works that you see being used in the font smoothing algorithms of XP and OS X. The [...]

Here's a page loaded with individual and ensemble competition videos throughout the years. Somehow I don't think I ever would have been this good.
http://www.drumlineparkinglot.net/dci/i_and_e

For the first time this year, I woke up today to a nose that wouldn't stop itching with pain. It's like someone is constantly pulling a hair out of it.
Man, I forget how much this sucks.

as if i needed another email address.

You know, it's funny seeing what leads people to this site. Every now and then I'll check out the stats page and my first thing to look at is the search terms. You get your usual “ohara, o'hara, ohara clan” and every type of name that appears in the genealogy section. Then [...]

Like Bowling for Columbine, I still haven't seen Fahrenheit 911. I've read Dude Where's My Country and I know or have seen most of the stuff in it, so I'm not that enthusiastic to see it all again. However, I'm kind of thinking I want to now since it also appears that Michael [...]

Honesly, I had no idea this is what a kilt was. I thought it was basically a mens skirt that you bought, but here it's a huge piece of cloth that you fold up in an appropriate fashion like a toga.
Apparently it's being modeled by a guy who didn't win the role of Gandalf.
http://www.lindaclifford.com/GreatKiltWrap.html