Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
Today was the day for my yearly homepage update. The full diff of which appears below. For more history see the following previous posts: 2005, 2006. :::diff Index: index.xml =================================================================== --- index.xml (revision 326) +++ index.xml (working copy) @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <my:infobox title="A Little…
After my last post I got a few emails from folks saying that they didn’t know what I was up to now-a-days. I’m currently working for IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY (just outside of NYC), in their IT Governance group. In other words, I’m doing…
Computer science and information technology is, by its very nature, a complicated field. I’m not talking about the math, or abstractions, or models, or classes or any of the other typical things you learn about before graduation from any decent school of computer science. It’s…
PennAve, the web gallery application that works in conjunction with F-Spot released version 0.4 today. This newest release brings a slew of new features including: New user interface Better support for internationalization Improvements to splash intro page Use of the much improved CherryPy 3.0 Option for…
Nearly two weeks ago I called Mike Doyle’s Office asking him to support HR 2060, a bill that would save music and netradio as we know it. At the time I was told that he was meeting with Representive Inslee soon and hadn’t yet made…
Here’s something you may not know. When you’re listening to streaming music over the Internet, that site needs to pay a compulsory royalty of 7/100 of a cent per song streamed. While this may not seem like a lot, it’s already more than is required…
One important aspect of keeping a computer healthy and happy is monitoring its vital stats. This is especially true of systems that are on 24/7 or that don’t have a traiditional mode of user interaction. In my case, my MythTV box fits both of these…
When I first started what could be called a weblog, sometime back in 2000, it was mainly a little place for me to scribble my thoughts about what was going on in my life. You can see a snapshot from early 2002 at the Internet…
In the dark old days of the internet, I used to run a weblog using a few ad hoc PHP scripts. They broke a lot and generally weren’t well maintained. Somtime later I started to use Movable Type. After all, it was 2001, and that…
I went through and decided to give my weblog a facelift. Originally I had intended it to be much more exhaustive, but I settled on something pretty simple for right now. I’d still like to add the ability to leave comments at some point in…