Cool new album due out from David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim. Here’s a preview featuring a Santigold song

See David Byrne’s site for more details.

Great tool for converting KDE3 settings to KDE4 on Debian. Also, it’s works well to merge KDE4 settings from .kde4 with KDE3 settings in .kde. This is useful as KDE4 1st used .kde4 to save personal KDE configuration data. KDE4 is now using .kde for config data, which mean early KDE4 users will have problems [...]

Can you believe this:

21,027 spams caught, 65 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 100.000%.

So this rinky-dink blog has gotten over 21,000 spam comments since July 2007, and 1,723 in January 2009. This is done by automated Spam bots; automated programs that scour the web for blogs to post comments  on, and these comments [...]

While writing some RoR code at home (or at least trying to grok the RoR way) I’ve alternating between using Emacs & Netbeans 6.5. Emacs is one true editor to rule them all, but what it’s lacking is code completion such as in Netbeans.
I was working on test RoR project last night with Emacs, and [...]

Cool new Peugeot.

The Canadian dollar is at it’s highest rate against the US dollar and is now worth .98c:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070918/dollar_parity_070918/20070918?hub=TopStories
The Canadian dollar set a 30-year-high Tuesday, closing at US98.64 cents after investors got word of a drastic interest rate cut south of the border.
And, it may be worth more than the US dollar soon!
Economists say it could only [...]

Sounds familar! http://www.bugbash.net/comic/107.html

Tips form Red Hat on dual-booting a MacBook with OSX & RHEL:
http://www.redhatmagazine.com

Walking down Mass ave in Cambridge, MA, after leaving the Middle East and 3 Police Motorbike wizz by, followed by 5 Police Cars and a Paddy Wagon. Then the all do a U turn and come racing back up Mass Ave. While waiting for the bus 2 or 3 more go racing by, all with [...]

In time of trouble and lousey strife,
You have still got a darlint plan
You still can turn to a brighter life -
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN
http://www.hellshaw.com/flann/pint.html