The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Job postings

| April 30, 2007

There are some openings at my work: Web QA Engineer Web Developer

Some updates

| April 23, 2007

- I really need to update my book stack. I have actually been reading, just not writing about it. – My friends Katie and Chris picked up a great deal of a condo in East Providence (Rumford). If you have the cash and don't mind a bit of real estate speculation, look into Ross Commons [...]

Today's computermachine tip

| April 18, 2007

When your machine is memory bound (650M of 768M used, w/ 800M in swap) and therefore slooooowwww, adding a 1GB stick (replaces the 256M module for 1.5GB) makes for a much happier machine. Now, whenever I flip desktops, it doesn't sit there for 30 seconds paging everything back out of swap.

More pics of the house

| April 15, 2007

I took some more pictures of the house.

A little bit of an update

| April 12, 2007

So, the house is progressing. The heating system is almost finished – the new boiler, heat exchanger and duct control system is all in and they're just finishing up. The new tractor mostly works. The machine itself is great, but recently I've been picking up stones from the gravel driveway in the snowblower which get [...]