Brian Griffin

Cold, snowy. Why not?

What operating system are the Google guys using?

The standard set up for a Plan 9 aficionado here seems to
be a Mac or Linux machine running Plan 9 from User Space
to get at sam, acme, and the other tools. Rob, Ken, Dave, and I
use Macs as our desktop machines, but we’re a bit of an exception.
Most Google engineers use Linux machines, and I know of
quite a few ex-Bell Labs people who are happy to be using
sam or acme on those machines. My own setup is two
screens. The first is a standard Mac desktop with non-Plan 9
apps and a handful of 9terms, and the second is a full-screen
acme for getting work done. On Linux I do the same but the
first screen is a Linux desktop running rio (formerly dhog’s 8½).

via groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9

Maybe the best idea I will have today, if not all week.

Czech bakery somewhere in Texas.

This time Dan’s.

We were out running errands with Michelle’s grandpa, who loves hamburgers, and we were near BurgerTex.

Michelle’s new Yorkie coat.

There’s water in Onion Creek, a rare sight the past few years.

After a long morning of herding Yorkies

On our way to Austin we stopped at the first BBQ place we saw – Rudy’s in Waco.

“The existing copyright system makes a few stars very rich, supports a small fraction of artists adequately, and is an abject failure for the rest. However, it is great for supporting the big business of the copyright industry—and nowadays they are extending it to forbid sharing. It is a system that attacks our freedom so it can waste our money. New methods can support most artists better, while respecting our freedom, and only copyright industry will lose. Good riddance!”

via digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch

Creates index.html for directory contents shared publicly on Dropbox. That way you can easily share whole content of the directory without the need to send separate links for all the shared files. via code.google.com/p/kosciak-misc/wiki/DropboxIndex

Supermodernism: a term I first encountered in architecture, coined by Hans Ibelings, used to describe buildings constructed without context or integral information.

via warrenellis.com

Chromium now natively supports Greasemonkey extensions. via blog.chromium.org