Garrett was kind enough to be my twitter proxy for my inner feelings on deploying a project on a windows VPS:
http://twitter.com/boontdustie/status/1661295098
Now I’ve tried 5 times without success to download Windows Driver Kit so I can disable the OS nanny which won’t let my client’s application run. The 570MB ISO fails at around 100MB every time. [...]
Do you ever get the feeling that someone is sitting on the other end of Recaptcha sending you ridiculous captchas just to see if you’ll type them? I mean sure, ‘free’, ‘digitize books’, ’strong security’, and ‘accessible to blind users’ are great and noble virtues of this service. But what’s really more [...]
I’ve listened to many arguments on why musicians should not play for no pay.
I myself pay the bills as a self employed software consultant. At other times I play with bands, practice, and develop my own works. I give priority to the occasional paid gigs, but it’s never near enough to pay [...]
I just noticed my stone lion is missing. Part of its’ once proud and now broken body is sitting in front of the ugly mcmansion next door. I will enjoy smashing the culprits into pieces. The lion was a gift and one of my favorite possessions. Know that [...]
So Laurky dragged me out to doe bay on a Sunday. Aside from eating and sitting in tubs of hot water all day long, I found some nice lengths of bull kelp to make flutes and didgeridoos out of. I commented that being wrapped up in bull kelp while playing it [...]
I had another brief glimpse underneath the surface of reality today. Lately I’ve been really into riding public transportation while listening to postapocalyptic music from the likes of God Speed You! Black Emperor. You know how there’s categorically ‘driving music’ or ‘dancing music’. Well, there is also ‘being ferried through urban decay [...]
Recently I’ve been finding Firefox 3 to be sluggish. Pages on a Rails app I maintain were very slow to render. Looking at the HTTP traffic through the terrific Firebug, I found that every resource on each page was being pulled down on every page refresh. The application uses, and I argue overuses, several different [...]