all posts on December 10th, 2004


This week’s cool new tools

I discovered the following wonderful new tools this week: – gzgrep – chrpath – elfhack If you’re a unix person, I highly recommend looking this up. gzgrep is one of those great every day admin tools (grep gz’d files), and the others are more for sysadmins that deal with broken software or complex systems with […]

Bike Update

So I bought a motorcycle this weekend. No, wait. Last weekend, actually. So far this week I’ve: – Had a key made for it – Purchased and installed a new battery – Drained the gas tank and refilled it – Cleaned rust off of a handful of electrical contacts – Attempted to replace the sparkplugs […]

Good things come in small packages

So today I walk from my office to my girlfriend’s office picking up the package I saw waiting for her at the front desk (and signing for it). While I was already planning to pick up the package, you should not for later, that she did ask me to pick it up when I said […]