Dell Financial Services Direct Sales (that means “cheap refurbished business class computers”)

ZFS on FUSE/Linux, and its wiki.

Greylisting with greylistd and exim, way more efficient with CPU time than my Postgresql solution.

Rather cute

Since Chris2 tagged me, here goes. Much of this gets talked about here where people on my friends list read, but not much escapes publically.

• I have no college degree. I never attended high school. I didn’t even actually officially enroll in middle school. My highest formal education is the fourth grade.
• I’m transsexual. I live in a tiny town in the rural US, and it works out fine.
• I run a small internet service provider. I bought it from its previous owner after working for him for 8 years. I walked in looking for internet service; I walked out with a job instead. I’ve been doing it pretty much since.
• I’m vegetarian, and while I can make claims of moral superiority, the real secret is that I just don’t like any meats.
• I believe in honesty, directness and independence in unusual ways.

I’m gonna tag scytrin and wolftracks

Strange maps.

Report on transgender-related health priorities. (PDF)

Encyclopædia of the unusual at Wikipedia, including some of my favorites — Banksy, Navel lint, Trojan room coffee pot, Utah teapot, and Cadigan.

this made me think of you.

Famous people who were once homeless (Mirror)

Hyperinflation Banknotes. My mother’s family lived in Argentina through the seventies, eighties and ninties, and have seen the currency reforms.

Gluster, free cluster-computing software. Potentially very exciting to me as it develops.

Links for autodidacts. Thanks, chris2.

Quantum mechanics making a (qu)bit of sense.

FDR and the New Deal can bite me. I work entirely too hard to spend this much of my life figuring out what 12.4% of my income I need to give the Social Security Administration.

The nbtsc.org server should be back up now. Its power supply died, and it took a while to get up there to fix it. Sorry ‘bout that.

Me: Why are you grinning?

Bailey: I’m not! I’m upside-down so frowns look happy!

Dear political activist organizations,

Will you please start focusing on the issues, and not your organizations?

Sincerely,

Aria

P.S. you suck.

A customer just called and said “Hi. Actually I need AOL’s phone number.”

Please document your code and put the documentation on your website. If you’re writing a Javascript library, you’re creating an API. You know how frustrating it is researching browser bugs and the ways they don’t follow their APIs? You create the same frustration when using your libraries when you don’t document them. Thank you.

Joshua: #{expletive :conjugation => ‘imperative’} #{pronoun :person => 2, :number => ‘singular’, :case => ‘accusative’ }

Naka Ima from a student’s perspective. Honesty is good. Canadians think it goes well with Aikido.

I nic’d hand.d!

Hotel Room Nudes is among my favorite blogs; relatively classy yet brash stuff. DNSFW, but FTW.

Breakfast Nook

Gurgitate-mail is up to 1.8.1. Go procmail! Go far away!.

Make onionade!

Or onion smoothies anyway.

Blend an onion, 14oz of crushed tomatoes, with the juice, a pinch of salt, a pinch of garlic powder, and a dash of vinegar until smooth.

Serve cold.

Apparently there was a 3.3 magnitude earthquake 14 miles west of here today. I missed it, but might explain why I suddenly felt anxious.