Tom And Lisa

I love the Digital Camera Test. We needed this tonight to setup our Slingbox for a trip, and it turned out the cable wasn’t plugged in as tightly as it needed to be.

Quoted: Spinal Tap is back, and this time the band wants to help save the world from global warming.

Scott Adams has something to say about the newly discovered planet.

Quoted: It seems to me that we now have a falsifiable hypothesis for Intelligent Design on Earth. My hypothesis is that it came from Gliese 581 C. I call that science. We should teach it in schools.

Quoted: One beekeeper alone lost 40,000 bees, Pettis said

I love mis-quotes like this - 40,000 bees is less than one full hive.

I think aliens are taking the bees - kind of like when the dolphins disappear just before the Vogons arrive.

Quoted: I’ve just installed Trac on a sub-domain on Dreamhost. The best information I could find on this is at natmaster.com but the information does have one issue. The instructions cause the required Python libraries to be installed in two places - some go into lib/python and others into lib/python2.3/site-packages. To make the installation work for me,

Le Triskell now has their own web site.

This might make the the healthiest person alive…

Quoted: A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, U.S. and Thai researchers said on Thursday.

DHH makes an interesting point about open source, and takes a dig at Twitter for whining about something and not just fixing it like Nic Williams did with 75 lines of code.

Quoted: Now how could this be. How could Nic fix such an apparent “critical flaw”, as others have billed the lack of this facility in Rails, …

So sad that a DLL I worked on (WMP.DLL) is now part of a Mac TV ad

Quoted: MacDailyNews.com. Apple Macs don’t suffer from cryptic errors like Windows PCs often do.

My previous Dot mentions Solid State Hydrogen, this one explains a little about how that works. This seems more reasonable than having 10000 psi tanks in your car

Quoted: In a metal-hydride storage tank, hydrogen is introduced to a mixture of metal alloys, to which the H2 atoms bond directly.

Quoted: The on-board hydrogen can power the vehicle for up to 70 minutes, and will run
you $1,500

Oops

Quoted: Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon was arrested for drunken driving after a trooper stopped him in downtown Kirkland for speeding last Friday about 2 a.m., the State Patrol reported.

Lisa’s car is for sale

Quoted: This sizzling hot Black Sapphire 330Ci Coupe is absolutely loaded factory options

Learn something, and be entertained too.

Quoted: Anyone who’s using Deprec from Windows is likely to run into a problem where they get a strange SFTP StatusException error. The stack looks something like this: c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-sftp-1.1.0/lib/net/sftp/operations/abstract.rb:78:in`do_status’:Net::SFTP::Operations::StatusException (4, “Failure”) Net::SFTP::Operations::StatusException