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Posted from my iPad

Ryan — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:16:17 +0000

Yeah, I caved and got one. I can justify it as a business expense though, and I do plan to use it for work related purposes.

Attention Losers

Ryan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:11:00 +0000

This beast will be mine on Tuesday. I’ve been wanting an 70′s Ibanez SG for a long time, and I will soon have one. I highly recommend you guys check out the Music Swop Shop for any of your awesome gear requirements. The guy’s there are fucking awesome. I rolled in to the shop 5 minutes before closing time and they still let me dick around on this thing for like 15 minutes, and they’re holding it for me till Tuesday.

Ibanez Pre 1975 SG

Yeasayer – Odd Blood

Ryan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:09:48 +0000

New Yeasayer album is awesome. How awesome? All the way awesome.

Buy it now.

Fedora 12 on EeePC 1000HE

Ryan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:02:19 +0000

As of around an hour ago I have Fedora 12 running on my EeePc 1000HE.

For those of you that don’t know, pretty much no linux distro naitively supports wireless networking on the 1000HE out of the box. This is due to the rt2860 wireless hardware used by this model (and a few others I think). You’d think with the popularity of netbooks in general that they’d include drivers for it, as far as I know they’re stable, but anyway. Not that much of a big deal, you just need to enable 2 additional repos and yum install rt2860.

What this really means however is that I can finally get rid of that POS eeebuntu and use a real distro like Fedora*.

While I’m on the topic, when did KDE become such a sluggish, fat wilderbeast. I love KDE, and I remember trying out KDE 4 on openSuse a year or so back. It’s a shame that I have to degrade myself with gnome just to get a useable experience. Whatevs. Gnome 3 will be out towards the end of the year, and that looks really tight, so I can wait till then.

*For the record, Slackware is the only distro you should be using, but Fedora follows a close second.

Fixed the Categories menu

Ryan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:49:42 +0000

The category menu now slides up and down on hover rather than making you click an arrow to collapse.

I don’t know why I didn’t do it like this in the first place.

Creating a scripting language

Ryan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:12:03 +0000

I’ve been toying with the idea of converting some software I’ve written (in Python) into a scripting language. Or library. I haven’t really figured that out yet.

I guess the pro’s of making it a library are that people who are already familiar with Python can use it with little to no learning curve. The cons to this are that I am a controlling jerk, and maybe I don’t want people to be able to use my code however they please.

Creating my own scripting language is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and this would be the perfect project to do it. But maybe I just want bragging rights and an online community who worship everything I do. Those are standard fare for the people who create their own languages. Like I said, controlling jerk.

Dear Western Digital

Ryan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:15:46 +0000

Stop packaging your god damn backup software on my external hard drive. Whatever magic your software does can’t be easier than the click and drag system I’ve been using for the past forever.

If I wanted to use your crappy software to backup my files… I guess I’d install them and use them or something.

In Mother Russia, Website designs you.

Ryan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:09:35 +0000

Wow this has been a long time coming. I gotta be honest, I really dislike the old design. I threw it together over a period of maybe 10 hours just so I could have something to show for a job I was going for. It wasn’t really thought out and looking back on it now, I honestly don’t know why I got hired. Guess I did something right in the interview, or the stars were in alignment or whatever (no Elliot, I don’t believe in astrology, sit back down) . Don’t get me wrong, the direction I was going in was good, but after I had secured employment, the site had served it’s purpose and the need to flesh it out to full completion just wasn’t there anymore.

So just over a year and a half later, I figured it could use a refresh. I had a stack of leave built up, and it’s not like I’m going to do anything useful to do so I figure hey, why not waste my time redesigning a website that I’ll probably never use. That way when it comes time for me to pay for hosting again, I can justify spending money on this site instead of more useful things, like cigarettes.

Anyway, as is tradition with my websites (both professional and personal), I leave you with a picture of our supreme overlord and master.

DASVIDANYA!