Out of pure coincidence today I happened upon a blog directly related to my previous post. Check out Literally, A Web Log, “an English language grammar blog tracking the abuse of the word ‘literally’.”
I have an on-going love affair with the English language. I have a vast appreciation for the many ways in which the language is spoken and written. I have great respect for those who devise clever word usages and linguistic manipulations. But in modern language there’s a particular failed attempt at such [...]
I am getting really tired of every community-based website creator feeling the need to reimplement basic functions of the web. Why does every site have to have a ‘Message This User’ action? Has everyone forgotten about email? The problem of sending a body of text to another individual on the web was [...]
I’m in a phase where everything I do must have a reason.
That may sound obvious—of course everything should have a reason, right? But there are many little questions in life where we generally feel that the exact solution chosen doesn’t make enough difference to even consider choosing one approach over any of the others. [...]
I propose that we enter a new term into our vocabularies: "the personal aesthetic."
Observations on human behavior have lead me to the conclusion that every human being has a built-in aesthetic evaluation system. This system is applied to nearly everything in life, creating non-random personal preferences from this seemingly random base. The components [...]
I can’t stand people who can’t accept the realities of what they eat. If you can’t eat a dead cow and admit to yourself that it is cow flesh, then you probably shouldn’t be eating it.
When I ate beef, I had no problem with the truth about what it was I ate. I’m [...]
If you happen to come across the following error while using dpkg (or apt-get):
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed
.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
The solution is as simple as:
# dpkg --configure -a --force-depends
According to Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho:
There are two known triggers for that bug:
* A package depends on itself. (This is a [...]
In PyBlosxom, blog entries are stored in regular files rather than in a database. This means that I can write my entries in emacs (hurrah). PyBlosxom can handle posts in any format it has a parser for.
The simplest parser removes the metadata from the beginning of the file and passes the remainder of [...]
Well, it just wouldn’t feel like Christmas without coding. =)
I recently started using pyblosxom for my blogging software needs. I’ll discuss the reasons for this choice in a later post.
One minor annoyance about pyblosxom is that since the entries are regular files, the developer chose to base entry post dates on file mtimes. [...]
I sometimes find that when I am saving files off the web in firefox, I have to go through multiple levels of folder creation. I click the “create new directory” button, type a name, hit return. Repeat.
I just learned (after my determination that it would be a very handy thing) that you can [...]