jo nathan de tert

Nice: chef's knife supports ssh flags, such as -i

Humorous programming jargon here: is.gd/6NOdQH A colleague just proposed a 'Higgs-Bugson' this week.

Finally gave up on Unity (is.gd/PM0g8U) and switched to Cinnamon (is.gd/pfatN8) for the (desk|lap)top. Love it.

GNU date(1) usefulness: Your server says uptime is 124 days? When was that? date --date 'now - 140 days'

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense", said G.K. Chesterton. Confirmed in my experienc

There were more populare Talking Heads songs, but this one is quintessential to me: is.gd/dHcTEa

I just noticed that the apt on my servers 'has Super Cow Powers'. Well, isn't that special?

Looks like the Hank Aaron trail from 39th-37th ( is.gd/c225zW ) is soon to be paved. Yay!

Old news, but nu2me: SomaFM has a 'Covers' channel ('covers' of well-known songs). Fun! Just heard Ramones cover 'Out of Time'. Fun-fun

Love Aimee Mann's cover of Coldplay's "The Scientist". Sounds kind of like Patty Griffin

baffled that libnss3-tools have no man pages. How are you supposed to figure out how to use them?

I never was much impressed with R.L.Burnside until I heard this song: grooveshark.com/s/Glory+Be/3P8… Listening to this, I can tolerate odious tasks

I just noticed that gnu's grep has, and has for some time, a -o argument to print only the matched parts of a matching line. Gotta love gnu

brilliant vmware vsphere feedback: "There was an error connecting to VMWare vCenter …… The request failed because of a connection failure"

Figured out how to use 'bomc' to include only specific fw updates as opposed to all available: is.gd/7ogYWK hint: use --no-aquire

java webapp support sux: "try using the bean proxy filter bean as the filter and declare your custom filter as a Spring bean". Clear as mud

movie Big Miracle imdb.com/title/tt143061… : enjoyable and based on true story, includes some funny MN charicatures

Interesting that VMware's CLI tools are built on top of perl instead of python. Is that because perl is easier to do on mswin than python?

Another great headline from theregister: is.gd/K7l7Zc "… I.E. … It's more like an exploit than a browser"

I love this headline is.gd/e40cDo , & many of the headlines at theregister.co.uk. They're reminiscient of the nationalenquirer