They’re called the Tarahumara, but they call themselves Raramuri. They don’t get diseases like diabetes, colon cancer, or heart disease. Oh and they can run forever chasing prey and they party like rock stars. Their supernatural invulnerability isn’t just limited to their bodies; the Tarahumara have mastered the secret of happiness as well, living as benignly as bodhisattvas in a world free of theft, murder, suicide, and cruelty.

Internet Explorer garbled the terms and conditions when I installed Google Chrome for Windows. It doesn’t seem to be a language pack thing, so what’s going on here? More importantly, what terms and conditions am I bound by? I accepted the terms you see pictured and installed chrome, so now what?

Why is it that when you click the “I’m feeling lucky” button on google without typing in anything into the search bar, it displays a large countdown timer that peels off a number each second? It seems to be a count down to the New Year. But why choose this instead of just a random page or something else? I hit the button wondering if it would just take me to a random page on the web, just any old page would do, but it gave me this timer instead. Why?!

I’ve heard the arguments for the agile developement method from people all for it and people who don’t care for it, and even people who just don’t care at all. I think it all boils down to the fact that the project management style and tools really just don’t matter. Pick a methodology and stick with it. Or better yet, choose what will work in your organization and take the best parts from several of the popular “fads” — use what works. The skills of the programmers matter more than which way you want to tackle planning, meetings, and management’s visibility.

Before I get to the problem, here’s the interesting part. If you list the files in /var/lib/rpm/ you will see the flat berkeley database files, but not all of them. And I didn’t notice there was one missing until I went to fix it. I’m not sure what caused/causes this, but I found a pretty simple solution.

So comcast, you want $99, that’s what you’re telling me, otherwise it’s $60 + $7 fee + $2.25 “tax” for the Internet by itself? Basically what they’re doing is extortion. My internet connection is my little corner store, and they’ll knock it over if I don’t pay up. Everything they advertise is just marketing gimmicks to make it look like you can get a service for a low price, but there’s really no such thing because it’s not an individual option.

So am I the only one out there that likes to set aside blocks? 5 in a row here for ldap replicas, 10 over here for build servers, 101-254 on the next 5 subnets for dhcp addresses… and on and on. In a large organization you wouldn’t have servers mixed in with dhcp addressed workstations would you? So why not try to keep it organized on a small network?!

A kill command from a wireless carrier could be used to remotely disable a netbook? wtf?!

How silly of me to think I could go a year without a reboot. I guess that’s what I get for ignoring my site over the weekend. Luckily, it didn’t crash until late last night. Oh well… note to self, monitor your own web servers!!!

Have you ever received an instant message from a stranger with the words Coho, Trout, or Salmon in their screen name? If the answer is yes, then you’ve been picked up by Project Upstream bot. Did you dig the hook in deep by starting a conversation…or perhaps an argument? I have run into a few Coho’s so far and they’re usually good for interesting conversation.