Jay McGavren's Journal

Lazy Google...

Made a slight improvement to the standard Google “Google Bookmark” bookmarklet (boy, there’s a mouthful)… It quotes the current selection and uses it as a description, a la Lazy Sheep for del.icio.us.

Google Bookmark

Thanks to John Resig and Niall Kennedy.

Diana and I spent a good part of last night playing Halo 3 on Legendary with the Thunderstorm skull enabled… A narrow passageway with 10+ heavily-armed Brutes is not a funny thing. The sound of Spiker rounds clanging off the walls over and over is now permanently etched in my brain.

I feel much better now.

I was reading an op-ed about the coming oil crisis when I had a thought. A thought much broader than the energy crisis or the environmental crisis or the democratic process crisis or any of the other crises we face today. And it’s a thought that’s been had before, so I’ll just borrow the words it was phrased in before:

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Of course we’re facing an oil crisis and an environmental crisis. We haven’t invented alternatives to fossil fuels, because it’s never been necessary before. Now it is, so we will. Of course we’re concerned about the lack of voter-verifiable paper trails. But now that we’ve realized they’re (still) necessary, we’ll (re-)invent them.

Insert your favorite emergency here, and then relax. As soon as people start dying from it, the solution is coming.

Attempting to run Zyps on Linux (Fedora Core 5) has been unproductive at best. Part of the problem is Ruby-Gnome2. wxRuby seems to be a bit more respected (and has better Mac support), so it’s time for a few experiments…

Ugh.

Baby was up at 6:30 this morning after sleeping about 6 hours. I got about 5, for the third time this week. I’m so tired I’m dizzy.

Configuring a new (used) Fedora box at work. If I was more used to Linux’s quirks I would probably enjoy setting up a new system, but right now it’s just a pain.