Litespeed is actually kinda cool

I just read a post by George Wang from litespeedtech.com here, went over to their wiki over there..

downloaded the lsapi-ruby gem
wget the lsws zip
installed litespeed

30 minutes later, my stupid rForum is running off of litespeed (at lightspeed might I add?)

And the 2.2 comes pre-configured with a Rails tab. How FKCING cool is that?

Meanwhile, I've bee pissing around with the stupid comatose plugin sodomizing rForum's namespaces, and I'd be damned if can get ANY one to frikking throw me a frikkin bone here.

Ever wonder why the really cool and awesome stuff has really pleasant people like George Wang or Xin Li and really shitty stuff like all these little web 2.0 turds floating around has just awful meanies sitting around just jabbin at people and basically not helping..

GREED IS NOT GOOD PEOPLE! don't you get it?Its not the 80's anymore.

gawd I'm so pissed right now.

"Personal DNA" whatever that is

Benevolent Inventor

Architecture rev. 1

Google File System and autre chose

I'm reading (just for the heck of it) about the technology and architecture behind Google. 

Thanks to Luc Carlson whose entry on starfish (Luc's implementation of Map-Reduce in Ruby) sent me off to the google paper on map-reduce and from there the rest of the papers.

I don't want to soudn like a fanboy here, but sometimes I'm truly very happy to have found Ruby (via Rails ofcourse). I did look at it a few years back but it was rails which got me re-interested. So thanks to DHH. FWIW.

Blogger Dashboard Widget

The Google blogger widget is actually kind of nice. If I have some useless comment to post to my blog, it is nice to know that it is only an F11 keypress away...


wurd!

PSP Suckage

My iPod is dead, may it rest in pieces (literally). I ended up opening my 1G ipod (circa 2002) to "fix" it and though I figured out what was wrong, my solder-fu is just not as strong as it used to be. So I ended up severely mucking up the very fine points where were obviously done by a robot soldering entity.

so, to listen to the podcasts, I had to brush the dust off of my Sony PSP which I happen to have a half gig (460mb usable) Memory Stick Pro Duo for (who the F**K names this stuff?) 

Anyhoo. Say what you will about apple being the new evil empire, but you got to give them the superior design points.

Sony, despite being a consumer electronics company, has not really developed the interface well. Or maybe I'm just being too harsh on them because the primary purpose of the PSP is to play games not listen to mp3s? However, if I remember correctly, the Sony marketing bigwhigs were really pushing the PSP as a multimedia machine. 

whatever.

GRIPE
I wish the SDK was open so I could extend the most annoying mp3 player which comes with the 2.x system. You can't really fast forward through an mp3. So if you are listening to a 40 meg podcast, good luck getting to the middle of the podcast in case you skipped back to the beginning (very easy to do because the left button controls that).

I have messed up my listening position so many times that I am seriously thinking of hastening my purchase of a new ipod. I wish apple would hurry up and send to market the latest iPod+iPhone combo that all the rumour sites have been talking about (right!)

P.S. did I mention that the google blogger widget RRRROCKS!!! ?? did I ? did I ?? 
/GRIPE

Posting From Google Blogger Widget

I had stopped using widgets because they became such huge pains in the azzes, but I guess I'll start using it again.. I mean they're really handy, except that they are such hogs..

so in any case, I was looking for a timer widget and I found this MeditationTimer , but before I knew it, I had the Blogger widget, the DailyGrind Widget and the DashMail widget. 

Even though I'm a little skeptical about the DashMail widget. I mean, how do you know its a harvestor for email ids (or worse!!!) really, how do you know?