Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 21, Ernest Hemingway (via Instapaper)

Daring Fireball: Let's Have Some Fun Reading Way Too Much Into the Preliminary Schedule for WWDC 2012 (via Instapaper)

I unlocked the Must List Level 3 sticker on @GetGlue!

it's beer-o'clock! — Drinking a Believer Double Red Ale by @Ninkasi —

I extended RANCID 2.3.1 to work with Dell 5324 powerconnect switches. dlogin and drancid were templated from clogin and rancid. rancid-fe only has an additional line added to call drancid for the Dells.

likes Jade by Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros on Ping #iTunes

Should I shave or should I grow?

I'm a Superfan of The Wire on @GetGlue

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.
Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat on Debian-derivatives) and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X.

troubleshooting ipsec problems on Windows Server 2008 R2 is a nightmare -

Is building a data center more sustainable than building a soccer field? | (via Instapaper)

Is building a data center more sustainable than building a soccer field? | (via Instapaper)

OfflineIMAP traditionally operates by maintaining a hierarchy of mail folders in Maildir format locally. Your own mail reader will read mail from this tree, and need never know that the mail comes from IMAP. OfflineIMAP will detect changes to the mail folders on your IMAP server and your own computer and bi-directionally synchronize them, copying, marking, and deleting messages as necessary.

OfflineIMAP can also synchronize two IMAP servers with each other, with no need to have a Maildir layer in-between. Many people use this if they use a mail reader on their local machine that does not support Maildirs. People may install an IMAP server on their local machine, and point both OfflineIMAP and their mail reader of choice at it. This is often preferable to the mail reader's own IMAP support since OfflineIMAP supports many features (offline reading, for one) that most IMAP-aware readers don't. However, this feature is not as time-tested as traditional syncing, so my advice is to stick with normal methods of operation for the time being.

If you've been looking for a fast, global-search and tag-based email reader to use within your text editor or in a terminal, then Notmuch may be exactly what you've been looking for.

sleeping on the job

I just reached Level 4 of the "Great Outdoors" badge on @foursquare. I’ve checked in at 15 different outdoor spots!

I just unlocked the "Swimmies" badge on @foursquare for checking in at water spots! Splish splash!

Little Nugedzi Lake @ Quadra Island

a salty sunset for @slystone @ Quadra Island

today is the last day to get 50% off FileMaker Pro 12 ($149) -

I just earned the 'American Craft Beer Week (2012)' badge on @untappd! #acbw

I just earned the 'I Believe in IPA! (Level 6)' badge on @untappd from Hoptopia! #ibelieveinIPA

one of my many office views

looks like a dirty smoker left some evidence in my driveway... 🚬👎

For my first 15 years with Vim I tried to learn it the same way you might learn a foreign language from a phrasebook. I had learned everything in a disconnected way. Use j to move down a line. Use cw to change a word. Use yy to copy the current line into a buffer. You can get by this way, but it’s a very simplistic approach.

Advanced Vim users understand that Vim commands are a language unto themselves, and that the key to being productive is understanding Vim’s grammar. Pritzker accurately identifies that grammar as consisting of the following parts of speech: verbs, nouns, and modifiers.

Hip Hop Is Read: "The Secret Meeting that Changed Rap Music and Destroyed a Generation" (via Instapaper)

Drinking a Zunga by Townsite at @alibiroom —

George Wright Fugitive Story - Uncatchable GQ May 2012: Newsmakers: GQ (via Instapaper)

I’d love to see a study that measures the correlation between a willingness pick up new tools and career growth. My belief is that a willingness to adapt to new tools is a key to remaining economically productive over the long term, unless you have a very highly specialized set of skills that remains in demand.

This is a list of miscellaneous resources I’ve come across dealing with data visualization in several forms. These are mostly utility libraries and viewers that I had scattered all over the place and that are best concentrated on a single page for reference. The Graphs and Graphing and Visualization pages will be subsumed by this one in the fullness of time. Ratings are entirely subjective based on my interest.

pointer sisters

I unlocked the Mad Men Fan sticker on @GetGlue!

I've just updated parseUri. If you haven't seen the older version, parseUri is a function which splits any well-formed URI into its parts, all of which are optional. Its combination of accuracy, flexibility, and brevity is unrivaled.

if you use the Saanich GIS Map Service, make sure you fill out this quick survey - #yyj

all witty'd out @ Witty's Lagoon Regional Park

The Social Milieu of Dogmen and Dogfights

Postscript: Adam Yauch ? mbid=social_mobile_tweet [oh sasha. It's like ur whole life was meant to write this]

the death of an ice rink @ Pearkes Recreation Centre

while you were out... #breadmonster

I just earned the 'New Brew Thursday (Level 4)' badge on @untappd! #NewBrewThursday

RT @maradair: #BC amends drinking-driving law after court decision @bcRCMP

RT @cuc2012: Are you fired up for this year's Canadian Ultimate Championships? We just launched cuc2012.ca & ! # ...

This article provides guidance for troubleshooting issues that may appear when using Cisco IOS software for voice applications. Tools and methodologies are described that help to recognize a problem, determine its cause, and find possible solutions.

The table below lists some problems that you might encounter after configuring voice ports. It also provides some suggested remedies.

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

The ICMP messages typically report errors in the processing of
datagrams. To avoid the infinite regress of messages about messages
etc., no ICMP messages are sent about ICMP messages. Also ICMP
messages are only sent about errors in handling fragment zero of
fragemented datagrams. (Fragment zero has the fragment offeset equal
zero).

This memo is a status report on the parameters (i.e., numbers and
keywords) used in protocols in the Internet community. Distribution
of this memo is unlimited.

A revolutionary experience is awaiting you on the iPhone with the All-in-One Mobile Scanning & OCR Solution. Learn more.

In the last few articles, we’ve been discovering ways to gather WMI information using the command line tool WMIC [Command Line WMI Part 1; Command Line WMI Part 2]. If you’ve been following along, you’ve seen me use expressions like this to format the output:

I unlocked the We Bought a Zoo on Blu-ray and DVD sticker on @GetGlue!

To synchronize all of BBEdit’s assets between multiple computers it is best to move this folder to a location in your Dropbox and create a symbolic link back to its original location.

I start by quitting BBEdit and creating a new pseudo Library folder in my Dropbox to hold Application Support files I wish to transfer from my Home Library.
Inside my new Dropbox Library I create a new Application Support folder.
I then copy my existing BBEdit Application Support directory from ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit to ~/Dropbox/Library/Application Support/BBEdit.
Creating a symbolic link between my new Dropbox enabled BBEdit Application Support folder and its original location ensures that changes I make to my BBEdit Assets gets synced to the cloud. ln -s~/Dropbox/Library/Application Support/BBEdit ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit`
By repeating step 4 of this process for all of my Dropbox enabled Macs I can share the same BBEdit assets between all of my computers.

Site selection and preparation: Choose a site with good drainage and full sun. The tall ferns of asparagus may shade other plants, so plan accordingly. Prepare the bed as early as possible and enrich it with additions of manure, compost, bone or blood meal, leaf mold, wood ashes, or a combination of several of these. In heavy soils, double digging is recommended