I’ve been wrapping up our tax returns, running reviews and reviewing an actual paper copy. One document (well, two) that I couldn’t find were the bills from the California Department of Motor Vehicles for the car registrations. But I was very pleased to find that they have an online retrieval system to help you find [...]

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Gary and I were recently prototyping an application that uses Java RMI, and so I ended up searching around to see if anyone has done a service conversion for rmiregistry(1). (rmiregistry(1) is the daemon that lets RMI clients find the available remote objects being served by various virtual machines on a given system.) Turns out [...]

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I was having a bit of trouble with duplicate entries from Word Pre.cio.us (for entries containing ‘\” characters in their title, and so was fiddling with transforming the bookmarks at del.icio.us, deleting duplicate posts, finally debugging the Word Pre.cio.us import code, and converting the bookmark titles back. Sadly, some of the dates on the bookmarks [...]

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I decided to start pulling my del.icio.us stream in—I’d been debating whether to republish it here or on my work blog for a couple of weeks. The Word Pre.cio.us script, patch, and CSS are a reasonably elegant way to present the new posts, but there appear to be a couple of kinks to work out. [...]

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As I did last year, I’m again reviewing the year from the perspective of blueslugs.com. Overview. Over 2005, we served up a total of over 8.3 GB of data, through our standard static DSL line: almost an order of magnitude higher than last year. 5.6 GB was blueslugs.com, while the remaining 2.7 GB was from [...]

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So both Dan Price and Ben Rockwood have asked again and again and again for Audacity, a free audio editor, to be ported to Solaris. A reasonable challenge. After a bit of fiddling and some decisions, I have a functional version of Audacity 1.2.3. Whether or not this will result in me issuing podcasts, mixes, [...]

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One of the aspects that kept me up late writing the tag(1) entry was getting MathML to work. Getting itex2MLL to compile was easy, but correcting the various WordPress templates took longer. This morning I found that the SecureImage plugin needs a very small change to make its output strict XHTML: $ diff secureimage.php.org secureimage.php [...]

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I’ve been using the social bookmarking service, del.icio.us, for a while now, and have watched similar tagging features move from site to site as a flexible way to lightly categorize various resources: bookmarks, blog posting, photos, etc. It’s therefore a little strange that no one has written a simple utility to give you similar category [...]

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I left a BitTorrent session open all day, to make a little contribution to sharing some of the code from OpenSolaris. No real load on our unexpected new server, but 413 MB shipped in 9 hours through our little pipette of a ADSL line. I’ll have to use trickle if I’m going to do that [...]

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I’ve been sketching out how to gradually modernize our network infrastructure: replacing a 10Mbps combination router/hub with a 1Gb switch and a 10/100Mb VPN, or a similar combination. (I’ll leave the wireless on 802.11b until Dina upgrades her laptop.) To make this simple, I’m reducing the services on the current router, and moving them to [...]

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