May, 19, 2002 archives

the la times says: let's pass a city charter amendment preventing the city from spending city funds on a football stadium. great idea. i didn't realize the city did something similar for the 1984 olympic games.

here's a satirical rant on “why i love popups,” written as a response to “why i love spam” from news.com. but seriously, i love popups because i use mozilla, which almost completely neuters them. i don't see them, or even their remnants. it's even better than replaytv's 30-second jump, or banner-ad blocking.

this article from o'reilly about remote linux administration would have been more interesting if the author hadn't wimped out on using daemontools. i'd love to see a linux distribution that really used daemontools at its core instead of a mess of initialization scripts and pid files.

the whole arena of software to ease linux system administration and monitoring is either way more underdeveloped than i would have imagined, or there's some magic tool i haven't stumbled on yet. (i do know that cricket is one tool that i haven't really plumbed the depths of yet. sometimes it's hard to see how powerful a tool that graphs can be, since it takes a while to start accumulating the data that makes them interesting.)

well they call me the workin' man.
i guess that's what I am.
  — rush, “working man”

apple juiced up the ibook. in considering a computer update, the ibook looks really tempting. of course, it isn't nearly as hip as the tibook, but i'm not sure the tibook is worth the extra bucks (to me—someone needing more computing power might disagree).