http://www.cosmicpenguin.net Boring posts from uninteresting people Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:45:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I couldn't resist posting this.  And now I'm going to say something shocking for anybody not wearing a tinfoil hat.  Glen Beck is right.  I'll say it again.  Glen Beck is right. He makes exactly the right argument.  Warrant-less wiretaps and the other provisions of the Patriot Act give the government ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=55 Current Weight: 288 Goal: 253 Pounds Lost: 0 (0 pounds / week) This is the first week of Project 35 - I weighed in at 288 pounds on Monday which means I need to hit 253 by December 22, which is 50 weeks away. That means I need ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=48 Today is my 34th birthday (Happy Birthday to me!), which of course is 0x22 in hex and 00100010 in binary. In honor of approaching the middle of my 3rd decade and and in an effort to take better care of my health, I am kicking off what I am ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=45 A few months ago I upgraded DD-WRT on my aging WRT54G router to fix a security problem. Ever since then I've had terrible problems with the unit hanging and being just generally unreliable. Now, I a pretty crappy version a WRT54G with limited amounts of RAM and flash, ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=42 Thanks to many years of Simcity, I harbor a secret desire to be a city planner.  In particular I am fascinated by traffic patterns and how stop lights should work to allow for maximum efficiency.  Of course, I don't actually know anything about city planning, and I can't spot a ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=37 You might have heard that the Motorola Droid dropped yesterday to great acclaim.  Despite the fact that it is the first Android phone that doesn't feature Qualcomm parts (boo!) the hype over it can only make all of Android better.  I'm looking forward to the increase in Android apps and ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=27 All of my regular readers (both of them) aren't in the market for a job, but since this is indexed by Google, I thought I would post this anyway. Qualcomm is in great need for Linux graphics engineers, especially ones with open source X11 experience.  Here is the req. Qualcomm has been ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=23 This is a fascinating look inside Washington Mutual as it was imploding last year. The most mind blowing line? "Someone in Florida had made a second-mortgage loan to O.J. Simpson, and I just about blew my top, because there was this huge judgment against him from his wife's parents," she ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=20 One of the reasons I moved to Wordpress was the mobile aspect. My old blog wasn't very easy on the eyes on phones, and it was no fun to update via phone. Wordpress has some neat mobile user agent detection and various mobile themes. Plus, Wordpress has ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=12 I've been using Drupal for about 2 and a half year now.  Don't get me wrong, I love it, but it is just too heavyweight for my needs.  It turns out, that after all this time, I just need a simple blog that is easy to maintain and run and ... http://www.cosmicpenguin.net/?p=3