w00t!

Back from a nice week of vacation in Maine and New Hampshire.

Argh!!!

Quoth Zap2it Labs today:

For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the future of Zap2it Labs was at risk because of certain growing misuses of the Zap2it Labs data. Unfortunately this misuse has continued and grown. These misuses, combined with other business factors have led to the decision to discontinue Zap2it Labs effective September 1, 2007.

Doh! I’m not sure what this means for MythTV, but at least there’s a few months to figure it out. Hopefully users won’t have to go back to the dark days of screen scraping.

I wonder what the “misuses” were.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan has been called one of the top five best nonfiction books of 2006, and is frequently mentioned by foodies on the web.

Quoth Pollan’s website:

In this groundbreaking book, one of America’s most fascinating, original, and elegant writers turns his own omnivorous mind to the seemingly straightforward question of what we should have for dinner. To find out, Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating.

The book weighs in at an overly long 411 pages, almost a third of which is a discussion of corn production. From there it meanders through feedlots, “industrial organic” farms, small organic farms, mushroom hunting, and wild pig hunting; including a huge section devoted to Pollan’s omphaloskeptical discussion of whether or not he should be a vegetarian.

Unfortunately I found it to be rather disappointing….

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Although Comcast isn’t overly reliable, when it does work…

… it’s quite nice indeed. :)

It’s from 2006, but Kristian Dupont Knudsen’s Top Ten of Programming Advice NOT to Follow is worth checking out.

After reading about Megnut’s fruit shortcake bender the other day, I couldn’t pass up the fresh strawberries for sale at the local fruit/vegetable stand. We picked up two containers of strawberries, and I followed her favorite shortcake recipe.

Highly recommended!

Apparently quite a few people do.

Claiming to combine “the cuteness of LOLCODE and
the cuddliness of Python,” a new horror has been spawned… LOLPython!

Related, no doubt, to the upcoming CPLUG CTF event at Messiah College, Patrick has a post about penetration testing with Python. The two main tools he mentions are Scapy and Inline Egg, both of which are quite cool.

Renewed my Zap2it listings for MythTV…

Your subscription has been extended to 2007/09/10

Status: Active
Subscription Expires: 2007/09/10
Subscription Plan: Gold

Yay!