Word of the day

prestidigitation
pronunciation:"pres-t&-"di-j&-'tA-sh&n
Function:noun
Date:1859
etymology:French, from prestidigitateur prestidigitator, from preste nimble, quick (from Italian presto) + Latin digitus finger -- more at DIGIT
definition:SLEIGHT OF HAND, LEGERDEMAIN

Reading list

  • The Butlerian Jihad - Herbert off spring
  • New internationalist - periodical
  • Harvard Business Review - periodical
  • Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Ecologist - Periodical
  • Fire From Heaven - By Mary Renault
  • The Nature of Alexander - By Mary Renault *** Good
  • Imperial Ambitions - By Noam Chomsky *** Good
  • The Manitous - Basil Johnson
  • The Folk Tales of Scotland - By Norah and William Montgomerie
  • Count Zero - By William Gibson
  • The Penelopiad - By Margaret Atwood *** Good
  • Sharp's Honour - By Bernard Cornwell
  • The Queen of the South - By Arturo Perez-Reverte

Podcasts

  • Channel Frederator - Cartoons
  • Digital Debates - US political conversations
  • DNAE BEATs - Canadian Hip Hop
  • Make Magazine - Hacking all sorts of stuff
  • Millitary History Podcast - Good podcast , hilarious voice.
  • Paris DJs - Old school mixes + funk, swing , mixed up.
  • Percussion lab Presents - minimalist electronica, various artists
  • Solid Steel - Mixed up "the Boadest Beats" UK slant
  • Transitions with John Digweed - the man the legend - dance/house/progressive

Quadratic.net

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Catching up with pictures.

Author:David
Date:20070821035850
Both Ashley and I are way behind posting pics. Well Ashley used to be, now I'm the only one horribly behind.

I have yet to finish Kew Gardens and our trip to canada in the summer.

Go take alook at some of Ashley's photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amred/1172339546/in/set-72157601544591744/

My first wikipedia page!

Author:David
Date:20070820065938
I've posted my first wikipedia page: Disocactus Martianus How cool is that? On a related note i've made mad updates on gallery.quadratic.net and passed 6000 pics! It's one of those odd "internet activities" that proves the you DON"T need to get out more. When I saw that I had clicked over 6000 pics, the first thing I did was check the backups, and it looks good. I have three backup copies copies and I think I might be going to two backup copies. Also I think I've decided I need a new camera, The old Power Shot s230 at a whopping 3.2 megapixels is a bit of a dinosaur. Personal favs for new updates are: And I'l far from up-to-date. Stay tuned.

Subtitles for DVD

Author:David
Date:20070726152802
So I have a DVD that's in Japanese and subtitled in French. I want to add my own English subtitles. I don't want to remaster the DVD. How?

I use vlc, like this: 

vlc.exe dvdsimple:// :sub-file=C:\temp\my.srt
How easy was that?

Notes

Author:David
Date:20070723012902
Quit my job.

Got a new job.

Going on vacation in Scotland.

Will be returning to Canada.

Got a new server fool.

Got a second battleship, lost it, lost the first battleship, got a new battleship.

Got a new movie.

Posted my chat icons

And this is why servers shouldn't use IDE Drives

Author:David
Date:20070614093707
# vmstat 3
procs                      memory      swap          io     system         cpu
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  3  15976 109740 300432 3173284    0    0     2     0    1     0  0  1  0  1
 0  1  15976 109388 300940 3173284    0    0   245   381  278   254  0  0  0 100
 0  3  15976 104052 301228 3173716    0    0   229   655  381   352 10  1  0 89
 0  1  15976 103704 301788 3173780    0    0   292     0  291   314  0  0  0 99
 1  1  15976 103144 302212 3174132    0    0   253   608  313   269  3  0  0 96
The computer is waiting for the hdd to respond to it. High WA!!!!
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