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Meg, who spends her evenings digging for tasty, nutritious tubers in the soft, lifegiving earth of Youtube, brings us these excellent video…
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Setting the PATH variable the Mac OS X way
Mac OS X has a nice extensible way to add things to your PATH environment variable using /etc/paths.d.
Macports FreeImage patch for Leopard
Mac OS X open-source suffers from a lot of users and not a lot of contributers. You can whine about it, or you can help :). I've created a simple patch for the problems compiling the FreeImage macport on leopard, removing the need for the workarounds.
Peak milk?
Peak oil is so last year. Milk is the new oil. And while that means more money for NZ farmers, it will also accelerate a problematic trend.
Installing ruby postgres and mysql gems on Leopard
Leopard comes with ruby preinstalled. Most of us use macports to install postgresql & mysql for use with rails, but if you use macports to install their ruby bindings then it will build it's own ruby too. That works, but here's how to compile them if you'd prefer to stick to the stock Leopard ruby.
Diabetic?
On a bus? In a coma? That's a tazin'. (Leeds, UK)
Meeting with a man?
Saudi? Gang raped? That's a jailin'. (Saudi Arabia)
TV journalist/human rights activist?
Kidnapped by masked men? Beaten and left in a field? That's an arrestin'. (Moscow, Russia)
Porcelain cans
Think that's enough bad news for one night (working down my ‘things to blog’ folder). Check out these very cool bone china cans by Chinese artist Lei Xue.
Shops now txt
When I ordered an xmas pressie in at a shop yesterday, they asked specifically for a cellphone number – didn't understand why at the time, but they just TXTd me to let me know it's arrived. Sign of the times :).
Alpacalypse
Meg, who needs a blog, brings us this alpaca song by Saleem.
UE aboard SS Independence/Oceanic
Brett steers me towards a great set of nighttime photos from a urban explorer onboard SS Independence/Oceanic, a derelict cruise liner tied up at SF.
Costume parties
So, turns out, there has been a second costume party worth going to :). Love the Sharbat Gula prop…
Geeky and shameless
Some dudes made a giant Settlers of Catan set for Burning Man in September. We wants :).
Results of consequence-free environments
ABC News carries this disturbing report of drugging and gang rape, followed by willful destruction of evidence, borderline kidnapping, and legal protection of in-house perps, in Iraq contractor KBR.
Fixing the postgresql initdb fatal shared memory error on Leopard
When doing the post-install setup of postgresql default database using initdb, you may hit a fatal error due to the shared memory sysctl limits being too low by default.
Ruby memcache-client reconnect and retry-once patch
A big problem we hit with the Ruby memcache-client library (1.5.0) is that if the memcache server connection dies, it leaves the mongrel permanently broken. I've written a big patch to refactor it to reconnect properly and also retry the request (once) to give it a fresh start.