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My dad recently added a line to his shared plan from Sprint. They sent him this brand new “$500″ phone for free. It looks like an imitation iPod at first glance.

Once upon a time, I attempted to recompile my Gentoo box, named haruko.  Needless to say, I tried out a number of settings for the CFLAGS variable, and I finally came up with a working make.conf.  I am now happily browsing with Firefox running in Enlightenment 17.  The kernel I’m running is ck-sources.  I’m still […]

I saw my cat today outside in the yard. She looked up at the roof of the house, turned toward me, and gave me the most pathetic look accompanied with a helpless squeak of a meow before looking back at the roof. I turned to see what was bothering her, and there was […]

I’ve been playing around with the Bash environment variable $PS1 lately. If you don’t know what that means, Bash has four built-in variables for the prompt, $PS[1-4] (more detail). $PS1 is the variable that defines what you see each line.

I’ve succeeded in hacking CGI:IRC to be usable with the Wii. That’s right! IRC on the Wii! What does this mean? Well, it makes it possible to chat with friends from the comfort of your Wii. Okay, it’s not all that impressive, but that’s not the point. You can try my […]

Avast, all ye landlubbers! Treat yerselves with an escape from th’ real world and have a bit o’ fun with Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates! This be the best swashbuckling puzzle MMORPG on the net.

I was browsing on my Wii when I came across this article that contains a video interview with Linus Torvalds about why there is no work on the Linux 2.7 kernel yet. The video requires Flash 9, which the Wii does not yet support (the video also loops, which is annoying). Anyway, I […]