Attn: Girls; These are not attractive.
August 26th 2009 9:19 pm by Matt
I’m sick of seeing way-too-cute girls wearing these things. They don’t look good on anybody, especially not girls. Especially not girls in capris. Stop it. Get some flip flops.
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A good day for a geek
August 24th 2009 7:09 pm by Matt
I’m tinkering with my file server a lot right now, which means I’ve got a big mess of wires behind the drive cage. Plugging in and unplugging drives can be a total bitch, but not today. Today, in the darkest, most inaccessible corner of my server case I needed to plug in two SATA cables. I was cocky, and decided to try to do it without unplugging everything in the way first. And I’m glad I did.
Miraculously, both plugs found their mark and went in on the first try. It was like my fiddling fingers were guided by divine will. A tear came to my eye. And then the oven dinged and told me my California Pizza Kitchen Sicilian pizza is ready.
.. It is a good day.
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Aug
This is the best wordpress theme.
August 23rd 2009 12:08 am by Matt
Best theme I’ve seen. It’s clean, simple and it looks great. I don’t really know why I’m posting this, but it’s the truth. Of course, epalla v8 is better, but only by a little bit.
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PDFs from a Database with IE
August 19th 2009 4:38 pm by Matt
Apparently IE (including IE7) is retarded when it comes to live downloads from a database. This problem manifests itself in particular when it comes to downloading PDFs. That means when you try to load a pdf out of a database with the following incredibly common code snippet:
header("Content-length: $size"); header("Content-type: $type"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$name");
you can “Save Target As” with IE but not actually open it directly from a link. It works fine in Firefox. After much obnoxious tinkering and searching, I discovered that adding:
header("Cache-control: private"); header("Pragma: public");
just makes it magically work.
Mapping your running route
August 19th 2009 11:10 am by Matt
So I was trying to find something that would let me map the path I run on since it doesn’t exactly follow marked roads and I stumbled across the Google Maps Pedometer. This thing lets you put as many points on the map as you want, and just calculates the straight-line distance between them. It’s remarkably simple really, but it seems to do an excellent job and they provide you with a permalink to share your route after the fact
Here’s my running route: permalink
Of course, if you’re like me maybe you think your route is more like 2 miles instead of 1.83 miles and you’ll just be disappointed. In my defense, there are a lot of hills…
I’m a wimp.
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Aug
It really is that good.
August 18th 2009 10:12 am by Matt
If you haven’t been under a rock lately you know that District 9 is absolutely killing the box office since it’s opening last Friday. I wasn’t going to post about it because it sure isn’t difficult to find out more if you’re curious. Then I figured what the fuck, you’ll never write if you don’t write about stuff people have already posted. This post may or may not be full of spoilers. Consider yourself warned.
District 9 is a new twist on the first contact action movie. Actually, that single sentence really covers the hype quite nicely. It’s big because it really is a new twist on the genre. There’s a lot of fanfare about how the film doesn’t use any big-name actors either, but that’s a load of BS. All that proves is that (generally) big-name actors are overpaid and overvalued. A good story is what holds a film together, and District 9 has it in spades.
The story is that an alien race has ended up on Earth after their ship malfunctions. Instead of laying waste to the planet or making an effort at communication that we inevitably fuck up (a convenient social commentary for edgy directors also resulting in the aliens laying waste to the planet) the ship pretty much just sits there. When we eventually get inside we find the aliens malnourished and scurrying around like rats. They’re intelligent, but approached in much the same way that an uncontacted Amazon tribe might be. They have communication skills and a distinct set of cultural and social norms. Yet their technological wizardry seems, for the most part, to have stopped at intergalactic travel and so-called energy weapons. The notion that the more intelligent members of their race have died out somehow is brought up but not addressed much.
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Aug
A few improvements to epalla today
August 2nd 2009 5:09 pm by Matt
I’ve updated the comment template so it doesn’t look like poop, and I’ve cached the digg/reddit links. It updates every hour so the digg/reddit links won’t be 100% up-to-date but that’s ok. It should help the loading times still.
Also – sorry that my reddit feed has so much porn right now. There was good shit out there today.
Ugliest car… ever?
August 2nd 2009 2:44 pm by Matt
This is your Top Gear reminder. Season 13 episode 7. I think this is the last episode of the latest series, and wikipedia says they’re going to introduce me to this disgusting pile of shit:
I threw up in my mouth a little..
It’s made by Holden and called a Ute. TG is reviewing the “souped up” one which is possibly the only thing more hideous.
blech.
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