Monthly Archives: September 2008

YouTube Four

September 27, 2008 – 14:56

I like Blizzard’s latest gimmick… memebait that is actually interesting. Here’s my YouTube Four, care of the very appropriately named Firefox Awesome Bar:
… and a bonus one because I can’t resist. But also because 5 is a much cooler number than 4. I don’t know what Chris has been smoking.
(Hooray for Viper’s Video […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged Barack Obama, chris blizzard, david letterman, ellen degeneres, John McCain, matt damon, rick astley, rickroll, sarah palin, sarah silverman, talking heads | Comments (6)

WotD: surge

September 22, 2008 – 12:17

surge, noun — Throwing good after bad. Such as: money, lives, reputation, international good-will.
Recent examples of use: Iraq, Wall Street, deregulation, tax cuts for the top 1%, War on Drugs.

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Word of the Day | Tagged deregulation, drugs, economy, iraq, politics, surge, tax, wall street | Comments (0)

Drill Here, Drill Now?

September 18, 2008 – 00:29

Putting cynical populism, ignorance of global security and environmental vandalism into perspective… “Drill Here, Drill Now” is not even a short term solution, it’s a long term road to nowhere (via garrett).
In fact, that’s precisely what returning a Republican to the White House will be after eight years of cronyism, incompetence and mismanagement: A Road […]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Tagged Barack Obama, election, environment, John McCain, offshore drilling, oil, USA | Comments (33)

Headless Dropbox

September 16, 2008 – 15:08

I have been playing around with the very impressive Dropbox, watching the surprisingly rapid syncing between my desktop and netbook, when I stumbled on a use case that would totally rock my socks off: I totally need a Dropbox on my Linode!
So I copied ~/.dropbox* up to my Linode VM server, checked if it had […]