I just switched my (rather limited) JavaScript from YUI to jQuery.
jQuery took a little (a couple hours) to learn how to write something close to idiomatic code. My new code is much much smaller and easier to read.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Byrne Eno
David Byrne and Brian Eno have released a new album and I’m on my second listen.
Xen Networking
Gerf.Org just switched to Xen. It’s running in a domU on hardware that is massively more powerful than it used to be. The original hardware (until about 3 years ago) was a 333Mhz box with 20gigs of disk-space. Since then it has been running on newer hardware. However, the hardware was flakey and getting flakier.
So it became time to upgrade to some new hardware. Xen was a natural choice because I can remotely power off a domU and it allows me to move my print server, firewall, etc. all into one box. I only have to manage one RAID1 array and it uses less power. Plus it’s cool.
One of the challenges for switching to Xen has been setting up the networking. Even though I read Bill Von Hagen‘s excellent “Professional Xen Virtualization“.
An anthropological introduction to YouTube
An excellent presentation on what You Tube is and how it has impacted our culture. It is a presentation given at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008 by Michael Walsch, an assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
I recommend watching it in it’s entirety.
YouTube – An anthropological introduction to YouTube.
Duration: 1 hour
Found via GrokLaw
unappealing taxs, part 2
I just got the “Disposition of appeal from real estate assessment”. This is also known as the ruling. In short, it says that the “evidence insufficient to change value”; no change. Yay!
The only recourse the city has now is to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County within thirty days. I hope they don’t since I believe this is a civil court and that means that I would have to actually know what the heck I was doing. Or hire someone who does.
Ciao!