Jeff’s Amazing blog

I don’t know where I come up with this stuff. Apparently canned fish is becoming currency in some prisons. Sounds like a joke, but I think the article is legit.

 Read the article here.

Apparently piracy off the coast of Africa is more common than I thought. There is a page here all about it .

 In the current story it looks like there have been some new developments. Earlier today I read that the pirates were seen partying to celebrate the end of Ramadan. I’m curious if these really are Muslims or if that’s just a ruse to throw people off. It seems odd that Muslims would hijack a ship during Ramadan, but maybe that’s the way these pirates roll. 

The latest is that there has been some conflict between the more radical and less radical pirates, ending in some shooting. I guess if you’re a pirate you need to decide if you’re ready to go all the way.

I seiously can’t see how they expected to get out of this alive.

OMG!!

Pirates are real! I always new it!

Some pirates siezed a ship full of weapons from the Ukraine and are holding it for ransom. Hey, we’ve got lots of guns here in the US. Maybe we need to get into piracy. That ransom money would help bail out the stupid banks!

See the whole story on CNN.

This will be my 4th year going to Ohio LinuxFest. It’s really blown up in popularity over the past few years and is always a good time. This year will be bigger and better than ever.

I actually got a room and will be heading up Friday night this year so I can go to the pre-party. Everyone is busy the day of the show so I hope to be able to meet more people on Friday night. I still have a free bed Friday night (I got a double room at the Drury), so if you’re interested, let me know. I made a post on the TLLTS forums so you can get ahold of me there or E-mail directly.

I registered late so if you’re not registered now, you’re REALLY late. Do it now! 

Click the picture to go to the site.

From Jono

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

This must be what I look like at work. I scaled the picture, but that’s not editing.

“It’s not just about grep” - Jono Bacon (Lugradio Season 5 Episode 12)

In other news, I really should blog more. I’ve got interesting stuff going on.

I’ve been programming BASH script and Perl lately (for a project for my home server), and am learning C. I’ve always wanted to really learn C, and it seems like it’s sticking this time. I’ve even got some VBA code (however small) in production at work!

More later… (hopefully).

So my benevolent web host updated the version of Wordpress they use a while back. What changes I noticed were generally for the better, except for one thing: all the links on the blogroll were now doubled. I tried everything I could, including deleting and re-adding the links, to no avail. It didn’t hurt anything, it just looked stupid and annoyed me. I can build an entire website by hand, but I can’t fix duplicate links in Wordpress!

Today I tried again and was able to straighten things out. What I did was switch the category on each link, save, then switch back. It killed all the duplicates. I’m not sure if this is a problem with updgrading to this version of Wordpress or if something went wrong at my host, but it’s nice to have this little bug fixed.