http://parazoid.net The Blog of Ben Stoutenburgh Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:44:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was listening to my iPod at work today when Sevendust's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" came on which started a good run of Wikipedia crawling....which resulted in Sad Kermit. While I am a Muppet fan, I thoroughly enjoy this parody. Check it out when you get ... http://parazoid.net/2008/06/07/sad-kermit-and-hurt/ I'm sitting around at a conference, and just to share with you some of the pain I feel I figured I would post this: PING google.com (72.14.207.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=2190 ms 64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=2 ttl=241 time=1470 ms 64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): ... http://parazoid.net/2008/04/29/impressive-numbers/ Seeing as how today is PI day I found this particulary good, but requires you to drop the last 'e.' I prefer pie http://parazoid.net/2008/03/14/dougs-palaidrome-of-the-day/ I'm stuck in an all day conference call of a sick person telling us what we already know, so I might as well get around to posting about the trip I just got back from. All around it was a great trip. I enjoyed Tempe but the workshop ... http://parazoid.net/2008/02/20/trip-report-tempe-az/ That's right A/C. I walked into my hotel room tonight, and the priorities were 1.) turn on A/C 2.) Scan for wireless networks. I guess more to follow but I've been traveling for 12-13 hours so I'm going to go relax. http://parazoid.net/2008/02/13/hooray-ac/ I had this weird problem at work back in December that I thought I'd share. I had noticed that when I started new gnome-terminals, my prompts read: I have no name!@urbs-19979 Now that's weird, but I ignored it since the machine was working and I was in a series of meetings. ... http://parazoid.net/2008/02/10/i-have-no-name/ I've got a list of tools I think are cool or useful, so I'm going to start sharing my thoughts of them here....isn't that the point? So today's tool is iftop. It can be used to display bandwidth usage on an interface. If you can't figure out ... http://parazoid.net/2008/01/10/cool-tool-iftop/ Have you ever have one of those weeks where at the beginning you thought everything was going to be reasonable and time would just pass quickly, but then you run into a wall and everything falls apart? Why can't this week just end? To make it worse, I ... http://parazoid.net/2007/12/13/one-of-those-weeks/ Doing these quizzes isn't my normal thing, but this had some odd questions and pegged me pretty well. It helps that I did not feel like even attempting to catch up on anything tonight. Find your own pose! http://parazoid.net/2007/12/13/random-quiz-your-sleeping-pose/ What's this? Another post? That's right, 5 this year. There are reasons for tonight's post. Here is what's going on: Moved to WordPress. I finally did it. I had planned on doing a lot of testing and making the whole thing smooth...didn't happen. I can ... http://parazoid.net/2007/11/25/site-updatedagain/