Excellent Cruft
There ain't much time left, you're born out of this insane abyss and you're going to fall back into it, so while you're alive you might as well show your bare ass.
SATA and IDE, Living Together
I'm sure every other nerd in the world knew this, but none of them posted it. I spent a good long time last night figuring out how to add a SATA hard drive (with an IDE adapter) to a PC already running an IDE HD. I played with jumper setting, cable order and such. None of that crap matters. The ancient Chinese secret is ... put them on separate cables.
The Water Is Still Too Cold
For some reason, despite the fact that I still had way too much to do, I got the urge to poke my toe ever so gently into the Linux pool once again. Will I ever learn?
This time, my interest was piqued by an app/distro/emulater-type thingy called andLinux. It's a sort like WINE for Linux, allowing you install this thing in Windows, and then run your favorite Linux apps.
What's the point?
A trait of Linux that has long gone over my head has been the fascination with compiling applications against your kernel. You don't need to do this on Windows, and I don't miss it, so why are there so many applications out there that absolutely require that you compile them before you can install them? Why is every kernel its own special snowflake?
Wasting Time Well
In recent months, I've picked up a new habit of perusing certain Self Improvement sites. There's a lot of good advice out there, for free, and I'm willing to consider almost anything that doesn't involve exercise or spending less time on my PC. The articles that seem to catch my eye the most, possibly because I recognize their particular pertinence, are those related to time management. Time is a bit like real estate: they ain't making anymore. That said, I think I've been pretty good about the time I spend shoveling coal into the corporate maw. It's the time I spend doing whatever the hell I want to I've been worrying about lately.
Sign of the Times
I was listening to a mix CD on the way in to work this morning. Most of my mix CDs are by "era", and this one came from 1990. I remember that as a time a time of great hope. Twelve years of Republican rule had just ended, and change was in the wind. The Berlin wall had come down, and Soviet Union was falling apart. The cold war had ended and the good guys had won.
Amazing what a little perspective will tell you about such hopes.
Not Dead Yet
I check my blog daily, mostly to make sure it's still there. As such, I can't help but notice the steady retreat into history of my most recent post. Things, many things, continue to happen, but most fail to raise my pique to the point where I feel obliged to post about them. And that's still pretty much true right now.
