From the Forrest Gump III Soundtrack

Part of the video shows Brother Ali by the southeast wall of the Jefferson Memorial. That inscription reads:

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
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SFTP from Nautilus

I just accidentally discovered Nautilus has fuse SFTP integration. File ⇊ Connect to Server Continue reading →
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Adding Runlevel 3 to Karmic Koala

I’ve got a brand spanking new install on an Ubuntu machine that I would like to use as a home media server. Because it is ancient, I’d like to run it without windows. Theoretically, because Ubuntu is a Linux distribution and Linux is a Unix clone and the core of Unix was laid out in SysV, I ought to be able to use runlevel 3.

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The Importance of Paying Attention

These are the commands I just entered:

  • git add .
  • Oops, that included target/. I’ll undo that add…
  • git reset --hard HEAD

That second command isn’t, “undo the last add”, it’s “reset the sources to the previous version.” That means my work from the last day and a half is now gone. Grr… The command should have been just:

  • git reset
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Jabbering In Facebook

I’ve been learning Smack and have been testing connections with different services. A couple that took a little figuring out:

  • Facebook:
    • User: wjholcomb@chat.facebook.com
    • Server: chat.facebook.com:5222
    • Encryption: None
  • Google Apps:
    • User: will@dhappy.org
    • Server: talk.google.com:5222
    • Encryption: None
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Google Feedback

The direct click path from ?couchdb tutorial is:

  1. Google Search
  2. Tutorialized: Exploring CouchDB
  3. Tutorialized: View: Exploring CouchDB

Which is the page:

This is half a screen of non-scrolling adverizing covering a page from IBM. This is indisputably a lower quality result than sending me to the IBM page directly.

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Shadows In the Seeker

The most recent episode of Legend of the Seeker is a virtual tutorial on Jung‘s idea of shadow.

If you’ve never seen Legend of the Seeker before, a bit of backstory… Kahlan is a “confessor” which allows her to magically cause others to fall in love with her to the point of enslavement. In the course of her questing with Richard, they’ve developed a passionate romance, which remains unconsummated because the emotional intensity of lovemaking would surely cause Kaylan to lose control and accidentally steal Richard’s soul.

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New OpenID

OpenID is a federated login service. That means I create one account and then I can log into any site that supports openid. This works fine unless your provider stops providing (like mine has).

OpenID

Google to the rescue, your Google profile is also an openid provider.

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Stress and Creativity

Work progresses, but nothing noteworthy yet. I thought I would just capture a couple pieces of flotsam from my life.

The first, an Anaïs Nin quote from yoga class tonight: “When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”

The second a video from David Rock on brain function and productivity that reminded me of Dan Pink’s talk:

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Valid JSON

FYI, for the geeks out there, even though:

{ foo: 'bar' }

Is a valid way to initialize a javascript object, it is not valid JSON. In JSON, the key and string values have to be double quoted:

{ "foo": "bar" }

This matters because jQuery 1.4 uses native parsing and the getJSON method will silently fail on malformed files.

Yuck

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