Off line versions of the color images from the book
There are now off line versions of the color images available. There is a zip version and a tarball version.
Apparently I regulate
Someone in the office complimented me on "regulating" today. It turns out that's crazy American speak for laying down the law.
A simple tutorial on creating firefox extensions
An interesting tutorial on creating Firefox extensions. Nice.
Compiling MythTV 0.19 for Ubuntu Dapper
I've been finding that MythTV is really unreliable after dist-upgrading from Breezy to Dapper. In fact, it's been crashing six or seven times a day, which has been really annoying. I figured I though therefore bight the bullet and upgrade to the latest stable version of MythTV. I was previously running a SVN snapshot because it fixed a couple of bugs I was having when I first installed Myth. Installation was pretty easy. First, grab the one or two libraries you're missing and that the configure script doesn't necessarily detect the dependency for properly: sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \ libqt3-mt-dev libqt4-dev mesa-common-dev qt3-apps-dev libglu1-mesa fftw3 \ fftw3-dev libsdl1.2-dev festival festival-dev libdvdread3 libdvdread3-dev And then the usual configure, make, make install in the mythtv and mythplugins directories.
Wanted: a rear wheel bike computer
Catherine picked up a fluid based resistance trainer for her bike today. Because the front wheel doesn't move when she rides on this thing, she also needs a bike computer which can be mounted on the rear wheel. Suggestions?
Don’t try getting Delonghi blender parts in the US
I've given up after calling four places. All I want is a blade for my Delonghi blender, and it seems that no one in this country sells them. When I asked the people I called for a suggestion of someone who might sell the part, they were quite confused. I suspect I'll be off to Frys to buy a new blender soon. Meh. All I want is a Margarita. Is that too much to ask?
Modified bike commute down L’avineda Street
I tweaked the bike commute this morning, and in return for spending the same amount of time on roads as before (but much busier roads), I pretty much cut the commute in half. It's a bit of a shame really, because it no longer feels like a real ride because it's too short. Now I need to decide if I go the long way or the short way.
Public transport to San Francisco from Santa Clara
Colin wonders about public transport in California, which I must say is much better than the public transport I m used to in Canberra. Colin, to get to San Francisco, jump on the VTA light rail and head to the Castro Street (Mountain View) station. There, jump across to the Caltrain station, which will take you the rest of the way to San Francisco. I would think without having done it that you should allow about 45 minutes for the journey. Here is the Caltrain trip planner for that journey... $7 seems pretty fair to me. I don't really believe the two hour estimate that it gives there, but I guess it might be right.
The What-If-Microsoft-Did-The-iPod-Box video done by Microsoft
Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video that was first reported last month. "It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging [team] to humorously highlight the challenges we have faced RE: packaging and to educate marketers here about the pitfalls of packaging/branding," he said via e-mail.
Rode to work, and lived
It's been a couple of weeks since I have ridden to work. First I had a sore back, then the bike needed a service, and then it rained a lot. This was also my first ride with cleated pedals, which was very exciting. These two factors resulted in my slowest ride to work yet, but I didn't crash and am a little more confident with the cleats now, which has to be a good thing.