Neato map of the Internet

Map here, and the author's blog entry of some of the work that went into it can be found here.

Rocky Balboa

"No matter what, you can overcome your past. With help, if you look to God, you can overcome your past and be reborn."

Halo 3

The public-beta version of Halo 3 is said to be available in the spring. Read the details here. And below is a new screenshot of Master Chief.

Linus Torvalds

Time magazine has a feature honoring heroes from the past sixty years. Linus made the list. The page honoring him is here. See the full list of those honored here.

Nov 5 2006 - Heather's BDay

Shootin' pool at Ringlers...


...Ringlers...


...Ringlers.


Yummy, yummy ice cream cake!

Oct 31 2006 - Halloween

Kaia the pirate! Arrrr!

Oct 13-16 2006 - Ketchikan

Grandma and Grandpa's home, entry way.


Grandma and Grandpa's home, living room.


Dad, my cousin Sophie, and Jeanne at Creek Street.


Creek Street.


Saxman totems.


Dad and Saxman totems.


Downtown.


The Grandkids, me, cousins Jake and Sophie, with Grandpa.


Knudson Cove, Ward Cove.


Mom and Dad, Knudson Cove, Ward Cove.


Skippin' rocks.


Jeanne, my mom's cousin Moreen, and Mom.


View from my Grandparents home in Ward Cove.

Oct 10,11 2006 - Boothbay Harbor & White Mountains

Boothbay Harbor, Maine.








The White Mountains, New Hampshire.

Oct 7,8 2006 - Boston

The Boston Common, Downtown.


Samuel Adams' tombstone, Granary Graveyard.


The Glass Flowers exhibit, Harvard Museum of Natural History.


Beacon Hill.


The New State House.

Sep 23 2006 - Kaia's 2nd BDay

Her and her favorite Aunt Jeanne!


Yummy cake!


Boys and burgers!


Geo-caching with Dad.


She wants to 'move it, move it'!


Beautiful...

Sep 16 2006 - Heather moving into PSU

Enjoying some afternoon Stumptown before moving in.


Standing in line for registration...


...in line...


...in line...


...in line.


Movin' into her room in Ondine...


...movin' in...


...movin' in.

Running IE on Linux

This is pretty dang cool! Check it out here! You can run it on Debian and Ubuntu.

BitchX Quote of the Day

"Bob Barker uses BitchX. Have your BitchX spayed or neutered."

LDAP Authentication In Linux

This is mainly for my own reading and interests. Creating a post here is a good place to keep a hold of the link. By all means check it out if you want, and if you have ideas on how OpenLDAP can plug into Python products and Zope let me know. How-To here.

Intel Core 2 Duo Vs. AMD AM2

Review here. Be warned, the review is packed with lots of good ol' techie language.

Intel thinking about cutting 20,000 jobs

Market Watch has the article here.

Stumptown Coffee = Liquid Gold

Coffee Review gives Stumptown Coffee's Panama Esmerald Especial a rating of 91.

Blind Assessment: Cherry notes dominate in the very sweet-toned, pungently acidy aroma. Relatively light-bodied in the cup, but sweetly and buoyantly acidy, with striking and complex aromatic notes: cherry, tea rose, Meyer Lemon, orange, honey. Honey in particular persists in the rich, sweet, though slightly astringent finish.

YUM! Check out Stumptown's site and let me know if you desire some beans.

Newsweeks 25 New Ivies

Story here. Reed College here in Portland made the list. Rice University did as well. Rob, you Ivy Leaguer you!

Favorite BitchX quote of the day

'Tickle-Me Elmo uses BitchX. *giggle* *giggle* *giggle*'

Christmas in August

The season starts earlier and earlier each year. It's only a matter of weeks or days before we can start seeing our local Macy's advertising for Christmas.

'Wow honey, that was an awesome summer barbeque! How about we walk it off at the mall and do some Christmas shopping.'

Nothin' like good ol' Seafair

Seattle Cracks Down on Drunk Boating.

Earthquake in Battleground

Jeanne and I felt this one pretty good! It happened right about 1:39pm PT and we felt it right at 1:40. It was of a 3.8 magnitude! Pretty cool...

Watch out for me! I'm a comin'!

Tropical Storm CHRIS Public Advisory

"Microsoft tags IE 7 'high priority' update"

"Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year." My prediction? IE7 = bugs, bugs, bugs, bugs....

If you haven't done so yet now is the time to move to a 'reliable, secure' browser. Firefox is here. Mozilla is here. Opera is here.

So what is your favorite browser?

AMD64 + Debian = Dream Machine

Yes! Well Jeanne. It looks like we're gonna have to get a laptop for you before December. I can feel my desktop crying out for this new release from Debian!

Back from Bend, back to blogging

Ah, refreshed. Jeanne and I had a fantastic time in Bend this past weekend. Though it was hot and at times humid, the fellowship and breathtaking scenic views far outweighed being physically uncomfortable. The Lord is awesome! Here are but a few pics that we took from our stay with Tab, Marshall, and Caedmon.


Jeanne and I in a park just outside downtown Bend. My beautiful Jeanne. How blessed am I!


Marshall, Tab, and Caedmon at the same park just outside downtown Bend.


Sisters.


The Metolius River ten miles west of Sisters.

Bend

Jeanne and I are off to Bend for the weekend. We are looking foward to some good fellowship, successful fishing trips, and some spirited games of cards. The Lord is awesome! Praise Him for the freedoms we have. Pray for our Nation, and it's support of Israel.

"Zidane and Materazzi fined and banned by FIFA"

Article here.

Ohloh

Site helps developers navigate open-source jungle. I briefly checked out the SITE, and it has an impressive directory of some 3600+ OSS projects. I could probably spend all day on there =). Give it a look see.

AMD responds to Intel

AMD really will drop Athlon 64 prices to compete with Intel Core 2 Duo.

"The equation is," Muzny stated, "what is it you're getting for your dollar? We've established a leadership position, and we're just not willing to let that go."

Thanks Rob for pointing me to the article...

Zidane = Verb

I was having a quick chat with a few co-workers a little while ago. One jokingly admitted that during a mildly frustrating customer conference call he wanted to 'Zidane them'. It sure didn't take long to make the Zidane headbutt a verbism.

Intel Core 2 CPU's tested

Intel Core 2 Duo/Extreme processor review.

Vista Vista

"The life and death of Microsoft's software". An interesting little read. 5% still running 98. Wow! I have to confess that I do have an AMD64 machine running XP, and I'm actually looking forward to seeing the performance differences when Vista comes out.

Zidane apologizes

It's good to read that he explicitely apologized to the kiddos of the world. No regrets though about having done it because of insults to his mother and sister. I'm still curious what he might have said the Marco.

Christian comedian on Nightline

Monday night ABC's Nightline did a segment on Brad Stine, a Christian comedian. An interesting bit to say the least. A few things bothered me about it.

The segment made certain to highlight him as 'still an angry comic...Christian conservatives against those liberals ruining this country'. That's a pretty strong statement considering we don't actually hear Stine himself professing this. All we really hear Stine talk about is his growing up years, how more and more people are willing to spend money of things more wholesome and encouraging, and that with today's media 'when it comes to getting on television we're [Christians are] ignored'.

The reporter refutes that last statement made by Stine with the following response:

"Not exactly." (a clip of Charlie Brown's Christmas starts to play) "The assumption of American TV is in fact that most American's are in fact Christian. 'It's Charlie Brown's Christmas', (switches to showing a clip from a Friends episode with Ross and Emily getting married) 'it's a minister who's almost always showing up for the wedding scenes....And so for you to say that Christians don't get a crack at the media..."

Wow! A clip of a shown-once-a-year 20/30 year old cartoon (don't get me wrong, I do like Charlie Brown) and a clip from a show that was completely lacking in any sense of Christian morality are the best examples the segment can come with trying to defend 'American TV's assumption'!? I challenge the reporter(s) to find more convincing evidence that indeed Christian's are getting a fair 'crack at the media'. I don't believe they can or will. Otherwise, they need to stick simply to just sharing a unique story about a Christian man who has found what the Lord has called him to do. I don't need to hear their political interpretation of Christian conservatives and poor defenses about the media being Christian enough.

"Cup of Joy"

A good editorial about the joys of Italy winning the World Cup over France. And I agree completely about his little snippet on Zidane.

Death to MS 98

End to Win98 support may boost desktop Linux.
I don't know if it will but we'll see. I say this because who is still running 'please reboot your machine everyday' 98? If people are still running 98 it's either because they are too lazy to upgrade or because they just don't know enough about computers to change anything, or both. Well, now's the time for these folks to be brave and upgrade there OS's appropriately to linux. There are linux distros out there (Ubuntu, Mandrake) that make the transition between the two OS's a bit more comfortable.

Sony's Micro PC

Looks pretty neato. When is a AMD64 model coming out =)? MS XP? Hmmm, I'd better look at the kernel to see if I could 'ruin' the machine with linux.

Update: Zidane

Read my lips: the taunt that made Zidane snap. A lip reader eh?
Some interesting bits from the article.

“Marco told me to enjoy the moment and put off all explanations on the incident until he returns,” Materazzi Sr said. “He just told me he had been provoked, the way he often has in recent years. It’s as if they have it in for him. In the last two seasons, Marco has always been on the receiving end, as you can see from his injuries.”

Hmmm, check out my other post linking to some Materazzi footage.

Amid the furore, one unpalatable truth has been lost — that Zidane has acted in this way before - as a record of 14 sending-offs in his career testifies...

“Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon,” [French rock singer Jean-Louis Murat] said several years ago. “He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.”

"WxPython in Action"

Slashdot has posted a brief book review about Python's WxPython GUI tools. I haven't done much with the GUI tools but if it's half as fun as programming 'non-GUI' python or Zope products than I'm there. I just might have to add this book to my library. I'm sure my linux books won't mind.

Update: Zidane

Zidane apparently called "dirty terrorist".

What sources? It's very plausible since Zidane is Algerian but I'm going to wait until I here it in a 'public' announcement.

Zidane

It is a little disappointing to see the World Cup conclude the way it did. Obviously the final needed to end at some point but how more fulfilling it is to see a game won on goals scored during the game rather than on a penalty kick shootout.

But that isn't the most disappointing part. The most disappointing part is seeing Zidane, who some have said is the best overall player to step out on the field in the past ten years, the star and captain of his nation's team, in double overtime, the game ready to go to PK's, him being of the most consistent PK takers in the world, lose his cool apparently over something said by Italian player Marco Materazzi.

I have played soccer since I was 5 and I understand that it is part of the game, as well as in other sports, to exchange heated words with opponents and even with teammates. But do words ever warrant an extreme physical reaction as was demonstrated by the French star? I'm talking strictly about the exchange of words on the field, court, arena, where a sporting event is taking place. I don't think so at all, especially at the professional level where, yes, they are being paid to win, but they are role models as well. And especially so when it's the World Cup final, seen by the whole world, 10 minutes to go before a shootout, you are the Captain, you are the star of the tournament, etc.. Wow!

BUT it'll be interesting to read what it was that Materazzi said, and to see if Zidane can redeem himself and do the classy, sportmanship thing with an apology. And the same with Maternazzi if what he said was indeed completely out of line. Take a look at this to see just how nasty of player Materazzi can be. It could very well be that Zidane wanted to give him a taste of his own medicine before retiring from soccer for good. That's still no excuse though given it's the World Cup final.

Zidane won the Golden Ball (best player in the Cup) award.

A few holiday weekend photos

Roberto inspired me. I'll post a few more a little later...


Hotties! At Crown Point.



A fantastic view of the Columbia River Gorge.



Rachel and Jeanne eating some yummy sushi.