Blog: 2010-08

LilDeb

Debian Stable has had some updates since the initial release of LilDeb, so I built and uploaded a new image today.

Oh yeah, LilDeb is a special GNU/Linux live distribution that I developed. No time to explain now, so click on that link if curious.

Lawyers

Front page of Nytimes.com:

Young Lawyers Turn to Public Service
By LISA FAYE PETAK 16 minutes ago
Many recent graduates who had expected to work at big law firms are reconsidering their career options.

Yeah, we really want public interest law filled with people who are only doing it because their planned posh corporate firm job fell through.

Care Packages

I'm looking for things to include in a care package for a friend in the Midwest. Which reminds me that we don't actually produce physical goods in Boston.

At least Boston has better stores than friend's city, so I will be shipping imported goods from a port city to an inland city.

SGT Signpost Puzzle

If you haven't checked out Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection recently, you might find that there are some fun new puzzles. My current favorite for cleansing the mental palate is Signpost, which involves finding a path that passes through each square of a grid, with some simple constraints.

If you're running Debian stable and decide to build the latest version of the puzzle collection from source, there's an added bonus that you now get anti-aliasing of graphics.

F-22 vs. Biplane

[F-22] fighter jets escorted a small biplane out of protected airspace above Chicago during President Barack Obama's visit there Thursday.

—Lolita C. Baldor,"Plane violates Chicago airspace during Obama visit," AP via Boston.com, 2010-08-05

I bet someone had some questions to answer, after changing out of their soiled flight suit.