The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Facebook

| August 4, 2009

So, I’m now on facebook. Folks are welcome to friend me, if you like. I can’t say that I really get it. The various communication entries are too short to be able to engage in any type of meaningful discourse, and I can’t say that the various media facilities are used much. That said, I [...]

Random collection of stuff

| August 3, 2009

So, when I find interesting things, I email myself to blog about them. Many of these are actually months old, and some of them are worth commenting on, and some of them are not. Enjoy: Severed Fifth – Jono Bacon’s solo metal project. I’ve not listened to the album, but the idea is interesting. Matt [...]

The state of music library managers on Linux

| August 2, 2009

There are about fifty different music players for Linux. All I need is for one of them to let me build a playlist of files on the local machine via some standard method (like, you know, clicking) blow said playlist out to removable media device rooted at an arbitrary path (it’s USB mass storage, so [...]

Goings on

| August 1, 2009

I realize entries have been sparse, but that’s because I’m trying to get a pile of things done before the oppressive summer heat settles in, which it kind of started to do last weekend, but I’ve been dealing. On thing that helps is these hydro neckbands. They seem silly, but are a definite improvement on [...]

The Ostfront

| August 1, 2009

Today, I was listening to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History, specifically Show #28, ghosts of the Ostfront, and I think I begin to realize just why the Russians were so vengeful at the Germans (and, thus, why the Germans wanted to try to surrender to the Americans and British). Just the depths of the genocide and [...]