Laptop Suspend, Status

I’ve inad­ver­tently stum­bled onto the calo­rie cycling method of weight loss. Two days of rad­i­cally low calo­rie intakes (1300) fol­lowed by two days of “nor­mal” intakes for my desired loss (1850). I’ve seen vary­ing num­bers, but the rec­om­mended course is to use this method when your weight loss flat­tens out, I was using it because …

Ubuntu Ruined My Life

[There’s a whole bunch of mean­der­ing aca­d­e­mic pon­tif­i­cat­ing and me tak­ing myself too seri­ously. About two thirds of the way down it gets really good, though. I promise. Also, the woman is now online and back in school. –JC] So appar­ently, some­one was try­ing to take online courses, ordered the cheap­est Dell with a CD — which …

Status Report

I’ve fin­ished read­ing How to Lose Your Altruism How to Win Friends and Influence People, and the review is up. Also upgraded to WordPress 2.7, although since I’m using my own cus­tom theme the changes will be all on the back­end. I attempted to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my Macbook, which failed pretty spec­tac­u­larly. The …

FIY

It’s prob­a­bly worth not­ing at this point that there are a few lessons to the debian OpenSSL débâ­cle: There is now a corol­lary to “do not write your own cryp­to­graphic rou­tines”: “do not fix bugs in some­one else’s cryp­to­graphic rou­tines.” If there is a anno­tated view of the OpenSSL tree (I don’t know/don’t care), the …