It’s a sad day when a random one-hit wonder band who stole your name gets a higher page rank in Google than you do. Poor Franz Ferdinand.  I’ll bet he’s rolling in his grave.  He should Black (back)Hand that band.

I was having a bunch of trouble today importing my old MySQL amarok database into the new nightly version of amarok I installed.  The Amarok Wiki had a great section on how to convert a MySQL Amarok collection into an SQLlite one.  This was the key...

So, there I was, watching Firefox 3 thrash my CPU and IO, when I decided that I needed a replacement.  Something elegant, fast, preferably threaded… oh!  Google Chrome!  So, I finally found a link to download the unstable version of the browser...

So, Badass of the Week is awesome. We all know that. But why don’t just offer an RSS feed!? I made one out of spite. I did it, yet again, using Ruby, HPricot, and RSS Maker. Get it here.

This is possibly the best one-liner I’ve ever written: gcc -x c -o /tmp/out - -lgmp <<< '#include #include #include #include #include void omg_i_love_leonardo_of_pisa(uint32_t num, mpz_t * result) { mpz_t retval, last, tmp; mpz_init(retval); ...