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Brian Bilbrey July 6, 2011

Miles Per Gallon

I may like summer least among all the seasons (except for the output of the garden), but my car loves summer. As long as I can keep the windows down and the air conditioning off, I'm doing nearly 53 miles per gallon in the Prius, according to the data from my Sunday fill-up. A week of driving without side trips costs about 10 bucks. That would have run me 25 to 30 dollars in the 4 Runner. * * * Tonight was the monthly LOPSA meeting - the speaker was a former (he claims to be former, anyway) penetration tester…

Brian Bilbrey July 3, 2011

In the style of Jepoardy

It is pumped from the ocean bottoms to the top of the spill mountains. * * * Zidane is dead. Today we (and by we I mean Greg) has finally had the plug pulled on the third (or second) iteration of a box that we (and by we, I mean both of us) hosted assorted sites for us and friends and associates. The take barely paid for the box, but overall it was both a worthy and worthwhile endeavor. I know I became a better system administrator through working on the system, and got a fair taste of the joys…

Brian Bilbrey June 30, 2011

Prior Art on Censorship

/. pointed me at Google Patents Censorship Of ‘Annoying’ Content I point at my email killfile as Prior Art. I point at my BIND configuration that has doubleclick and other fine purveyors of flickering content resolve to 127.0.0.1 as Prior Art. I can block annoying content. Blocking annoying content "with a computer" isn't patent-worthy, IMO.

Brian Bilbrey June 26, 2011

T-Minus Four Days

It seems that Jerry's moved over to the new host, with Rick Hellewell's capable assistance. I've got one or two more sites to flip over, then I think nearly everything's off of Zidane. Checking, I see a couple of remaining problem children besides mine. So I'm sending a few emails to remind people that the box goes away on Thursday, 6/30. Now I should move Marcia's last site, and set up some posting methods for her. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey June 8, 2011

More Zoë

Zoë Keating, last night. Two items of interest: First, Wil Wheaton introduced me to Zoë's music with this blog post. Second, listen to Zoë talk about her music and play in Musicians@Google: WNYC's Radiolab + Zoë Keating. In the latter, Zoë describes how the version of each composition gets selected for an album, and how that relates to what gets played live. When she loops and layers music so intricately, there are infinite variations for every work. I could recognize the bones of nearly every piece she played last night, but deeply appreciated the nuance and freshness of each piece.