Rubénerd :)

Once upon a time (or times, if you’re into the whole dimensional vortex thing) there was a socially awkward and terribly anxious young man who did something so breathtakingly stupid he was called to co-author a book with a former Alaskan governor.

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I’m an avid reader of Deutsche Welle’s English news site and subscribe to their Twitter feeds because my dad is German, and they tend to be far less sensationalist and more factual than other news sources. Still, this recent story shows even they can fall into the trap set for them by large software companies.

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YUM estimated this afternoon that installing Xfce would take approximately 7 * (10 ^ 40) hours to download and install. According to my calculations, this means it’ll be done in roughly…

809,589,041,095,890,410,958,904,109,589,041,095,890

…years, which as far as I know would be enough time to form at least a few million new universes. I’d better go put another pot of coffee on.

Ladies and gentlemen, this evening it has come to my attention that I grievously forgot an event so epic in size and importance that I may be feeling the repercussions for many millennia to come, assuming my plan to live forever pans out. I forgot @Zombie_Plan’s Birthday.

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Sometimes its very easy to tell a website has been dynamically generated with virtually no human oversight, presumably so as big a site can be made in the shortest time for serving ads.

Michael Franks – Don’t Be Blue lyrics
Send “Don’t Be Blue” Ringtone to Cell Phone
Don’t Be Blue is a the song from the upcoming album Sleeping Gypsy by Michael Franks which was released Dec 10, 2008.
~ LyricsMode.com

I had no idea my mum was a time-traveller who visited the recent past from 1977 just to buy an LP and go back! She was even more awesome than I thought ^_^.

I didn’t have this much trouble burning FreeBSD 8.0. Its interesting it’s not afraid to burn a CD with a daemon logo, but slap a blue hat on a guy and suddenly it freaks out. I suppose though it’s an improvement that it’s not telling me to talk to myself!

You know you’ve lived in Singapore too long when you see the Mountain Bike Action magazine’s website URI MBAction.com and you think of business administration.

Google didn’t seem to like me today. Firstly Google Reader gave me this blank page instead of my usual cheery Unread Items (100,000,000+) message, then less than an hour later I tried to view a YouTube video and was presented with this delightful error!

I never did have that green tea I promised myself a few days ago. I blame that.

In case you’re still subscribed to my blog through the old address (pictured above) but don’t follow my shared items in The Google Readers I’m passing this message I posted along with my sincerest apologies!

Sorry for the flurry of blog posts everyone! I had a DNS problem so if you’re subscribed to my blog through the old URL still, you probably just got whacked with two dozen new posts. Forgive me, I’ll try not to let it happen again!

While I have the RSS feed from my old side redirecting, if you’re still subscribed through the old address I encourage you to move over to the new one, if only because it seems Google Reader updates it more often and is more reliable. Thanks :).

Presumably the agency Kaspersky Labs hired to plaster their advertising everywhere didn’t bother to do a user agent lookup when they presented me with this graphic. Unless they have a FreeBSD anti virus solution of which I’m not presently nor currently aware that I’d want to "Say G’Day to". I guess one could release such a product for users of Wine and Mono ;-).

I need to install AdBlock Plus in Firefox in this VM, or set up some Opera filters!