Author Archives: Erik

I have my bow. And now I have MY AXE. It was made by the hand of Anders Stromstedt in Sweden, who looks totally awesome: The axe feels fantastic, looks fantastic, and has a very sharp edge. I can’t wait to go chop some stuff with it.

Firefox seems to be the only browser strictly enforcing the X-Content-Security-Policy header at the moment. This is both good and bad: good because it doesn’t adversely effect me here in my Chrome bubble, and bad because it seems to effect some of my readers. I installed Firefox 9 to debug the issue, and ended up with this policy: The only problem with this is I had to whitelist all of github. This is a problem, because provided one could post [...]

So, I finished the first version of my FusionRunner script mentioned in the previous post. Currently, it takes all the runs from Google Fusion Tables and imports them into Smashrun after massaging the data. You can see a list of my “runs” (they’re really walks so far) Click a run to see more details. The following features are currently supported: Caching of Google OAuth tokens/secrets on the filesystem Ability to convert terribly formatted Fusion Table rows from My Tracks into [...]

The other day, I kinda sorta got excited about running, mainly prompted by a friend telling me about a half-marathon in May. I’ve been needing to find an exercise outlet for a while, and this may be it. Throughout this experiment, I’d like to track my progress with some level of detail, and mapping/distance measurement seems to be a component of this. There are various services for this, like Nike+, and there’s a really neat one called Smashrun that I’d [...]

I wrote a quick little applescript today that allows one to show or hide hidden files on demand, since this doesn’t seem to be an option in Finder.  Applescript is a terribly designed language, but it does allow you to easily get crap done in OSX.  I have it in github here, and it’s so concise, I figured I’d just paste the current version here: set Status to do shell script “defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles” if Status = “OFF” then [...]

Ubuntu is a good product, mainly because it’s free.  They recently started some service called Landscape that lets you graph your server activity or something – I don’t really care as I don’t have hundreds of machines running Ubuntu Server (nor do about 99% of their users).  I got tired of seeing this when logging in over ssh: Linux joint 2.6.32-309-ec2 #18-Ubuntu SMP Mon Oct 18 21:00:50 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ [...]

I installed the new Debian testing release on my NAS, and was so impressed with it I decided to convert my main desktop from Ubuntu 11.10.  I was really unhappy with the new Ubuntu – it kept kicking me into Unity instead of GNOME, sound wouldn’t work, it felt really sluggish, it was packed with stuff I’d never use, etc.  Debian is clean, runs faster, and boots faster (possibly thanks to Linux kernel 3.0).  It automatically recognized and assembled my [...]

OK – I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and something in Google+ prompted me to make this post.  It goes like this: Please don’t change the following: See that?  See how there’s things like Save As… (I’m looking at you, OSX).  See how there’s actually a menu with entries in it that drops down and allows you to quickly scan text rather than randomly shoot your eyes around a “ribbon” (I’m looking at you, Microsoft Office 2007).  Stop [...]

I’m a pretty big fan of NY Strip Steaks. I usually just buy them from Costco (USDA Prime for about $15/lb). But, recently I’ve been curious about trying some other sources. I already put in an order to Baldwin’s, and I also plan on trying Lobel’s. I’ll also probably get a grill sampler from La Cense Beef. There’s quite a few local places that sell grass-fed as well, so I’ll be trying some of those.  Clark’s Never Sell The Land [...]