Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Lens
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II Camera Lens
I got my Amazon comission and it was just about enough to pay for this lens 
I’ll be sure to post a review and link to some pics when I get it.
Undead Santa Snow Globe
Undead Santa Snow Globe – a photoset on Flickr
I won first place in the 2006 Rackspace Costume Contest
MAKE: Blog: MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contests!
MAKE: Blog: MAKE & CRAFT Halloween contests!
Makers and Crafters, it’s time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests. We’ll have lots of updates and posts regarding all these, but this is to get you started and planning.
I’ll be posting pics of my costume tomorrow night after the contest at work.
[update]
My pics are on Flickr now.
Anton, Don’t Be A Nerd Any More With Hypnosis
SPAM subject of the day.
Does this imply that I am a nerd? Can Hypnosis really help me? Am I really interested in a help? The world may never know, the answer now lies deep inside /dev/null.
Recursive Grep
When you write a script to recursive grep through all the files in a tree, do not redirect the results into a file in that tree.
FreeDOS | The FreeDOS Project
FreeDOS 1.0 Yes, the FreeDOS Project has reached the “1.0″ milestone. Download FreeDOS – or buy it on CDROM. This is a very important day for FreeDOS. A lot of you have put in so much work over the years, helping to make everything perfect. Even if you didn’t contribute code, you helped out the FreeDOS Project by submitting comments and bug reports. Thank you!
For those who might care. I haven’t booted DOS in a long time, but for those who need it this is a pretty cool thing. Especially since MS-DOS is pretty near impossible to find these days.
25peeps.com
see the 25 peeps above? click on someone you like and we’ll send you to his or her weblog. peeps are sorted by popularity, which is based on clicks and referals. when a new peep enters the roster, the least popular peep gets pushed off the site. with a bit of luck, though, it may end up in the big 25peeps.com hall of fame. go ahead and try it yourself!
I’m up on 25peeps.com. It’ll be interesting to see how much traffic it drives.
The picture was taken while I was working on my daughter’s and my kayaks. More info on them can be found at KayakBytes.com.
It’s not just Linux: Open Source has arrived
It’s not just Linux: Open Source has arrived
Open-source true believers have been saying forever that open source is the way to develop software. It turns out they’ve convinced most programmers that they’re right. According to a newly released IDC study, open source isn’t just hype; it’s now the way most developers make software.The study, which analyzed IDC surveys from over 5,000 developers in 116 countries in the spring of 2006, found that developers worldwide are increasing their use of open source. IDC found that open source-software is being used by 71 percent of the developers in the world and is in production at 54 percent of their organizations. In addition, half of the global developers claim that the use of open source is increasing in their organizations.
Ubuntu Poised to Replace System V Init?
upstart is a replacement for the init daemon, the process spawned by the kernel that is responsible for starting, supervising and stopping all other processes on the system.
The existing daemon is based on the one found in UNIX System V, and is thus known as sysvinit. It separates jobs into different “run levels” and can either run a job when particular run levels are entered (e.g. /etc/init.d/rc 2) or continually during a particular run level (e.g. /sbin/getty).
The /etc/init.d/rc script is also based on the System V one (and is in the sysv-rc package), it simply executes the stop then start scripts found in /etc/rcN.d (where N is the run level) in numerical order.
I’ll be following this one closely and possibly testing it on my stompbox.