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About
Half computer geek, half scholar, half photographer.
Live in Venice Beach, CA.
Days are spent working on this site (virb.com). Nights look a lot like the days.
Shoot Canon, play Martin, and spend lots of time staring into Linux or OS X.
(mt) for life.
Music
Kings of Leon, Robert Johnson, Paco DeLucia, Frightened Rabbit, Bruce Springsteen, Tegan and Sara, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, Marc Cohn, Eric McFadden Trio, Led Zepplin, Son House
Television
Battlestar Galactica, House, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Dexter, Californication
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
JulyJul 22 Thursday Thu 10
The War on Drugs
Like many of my peers, I believe that the so-called “War on Drugs” that the United States along with many other countries is engaged in, is ridiculous. It has produced no tangible results after decades of enforcement and trillions of dollars spent. Yet it continues, despite the fact that other approaches have been demonstrated to [...]
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JulyJul 1 Thursday Thu 10
The new Virb stuff is pretty sweet...
JuneJun 30 Wednesday Wed 10
I hate computers.
JuneJun 5 Saturday Sat 10
Oracle’s MySQL
I suppose this shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me. Inevitable really. But all the same, it was a bit of a shock to see it for the first time this evening…
Oh the times they are a changin’!
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AprilApr 11 Sunday Sun 10
MongoDB 1.4.0 for CentOS 5
I know I haven’t posted anything in forever. I mean well! I’m working on an article outlining an introduction to encryption with GPG, as well as my own thoughts about all the NoSQL hoopla currently going on.
But for now, I’ve built RPM packages for MongoDB 1.4.0 for CentOS 5 systems to my Yum repository. Both [...]
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FebruaryFeb 10 Wednesday Wed 10
FebruaryFeb 7 Sunday Sun 10
MongoDB 1.2.2 for CentOS 5
I’ve built RPM packages for MongoDB 1.2.2 that are native to RHEL5 / CentOS5 systems. They’re in my Yum repository now. Note that I’ve also built newer packages for the Boost libraries because Mongo likes newer versions than the ones bundled with the distro. Packages are available for i386 as well as x86_64, and there [...]
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JanuaryJan 2 Saturday Sat 10
JanuaryJan 1 Friday Fri 10
What I hope I take away from 2009
It’s simple, and I think best expressed by this graphic (my favorite from 2009).
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DecemberDec 31 Thursday Thu 09
DecemberDec 28 Monday Mon 09
DecemberDec 22 Tuesday Tue 09
DecemberDec 15 Tuesday Tue 09
MongoDB Packages for CentOS 5
Hi all. If you’re one of the (approximately nine) people who read this blog, sorry for the absence. Been a little busy for the last few weeks.
One of the things I’ve been busy with is playing around with is MongoDB which I think is really cool. I don’t have time to write up anything about [...]
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DecemberDec 3 Thursday Thu 09
Tired
NovemberNov 29 Sunday Sun 09
NovemberNov 26 Thursday Thu 09
NovemberNov 23 Monday Mon 09
In NC with the family for Thanksgiving.
NovemberNov 15 Sunday Sun 09
NovemberNov 13 Friday Fri 09
iPhone vs. Droid
This is genius (disclaimer: planning on getting the Droid fairly soon…)
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