things

Rustica with an amazing macchiato.

Got in on the Surly tour this week. It was Surly-licious.

Very interesting movie. It’s hard for this movie to not be compared to 2001, but it stands tall even in that shadow.

Simply great songs from the The Avett Brothers, I and Love and You.

Found out totally by accident yesterday that I save 5% if I pay the dentist on the same day I have the work done. Not happy they don’t make that clear anywhere. Could have been saving 5% for a long time.

Learned after much difficulty today that find(1) doesn’t actually spawn a shell, and as a result trying to use backticks doesn’t work in a find exec parameter. However, you can tell find to invoke a shell to get around it. This works.

find . -name "*.DBF" -print -exec sh -c 'dbf2mysql -h localhost -d mydatabase -t $(basename "$1" ".DBF") -c -v -P password -U username $1' {} {} \;

Haven’t tasted Surly Darkness yet, but I was lucky enough to get a bottle into the house.

Filing claims for 16 unauthorized transactions that hit my PayPal account overnight. All made to an MMORPG. Frustrating.

Happy Birthday to Windows 7!

This is really cool.

Forget about model rockets – let the anvils fly!

Still saddened that the Thawte Web of Trust system is being shut down by the new owners, Verisign. Anyone surprised since Verisign offers a pay product that Thawte did for free? To make matters worse, I had become a Thawte notary a few months ago.

It’s crazy that while they have sent emails to everyone the Web of Trust website doesn’t indicate anything about it going away. They are still happily letting people sign up? Huh?

I’ve been using Smart Mailboxes in Mail.app for the first time ever and finding them very helpful. I’m guessing there are a lot of people that don’t know that these exist. I found this post on 43 folders helpful for some hints.

Just sitting here working away with some reasonably heavy I/O operations on my Drobo and it spontaneously rebooted itself. Yikes.