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The president used a word that I didn’t know. I think I knew it once, but had forgotten it.

I’m stunned and ashamed.

300.

This kicks so much ass. If you pause it and go frame by frame, each frame is like a work of art. Reminds me of Kubrick. So good looking, I had to order the book it’s based on.

For some reason, this piece of info was difficult to find through the normal channels. Basically, I had the need to run a PPC-only python interpreter, mainly because recompiling all of the PPC-only binary modules we depend on was out of the question. So to get the modules to work on Intel, I was trying to force the PPC part of the universal python executable to run. You can set how a Universal app runs within the Get Info panel, but on the command line, ditto does the trick.

Recently, Google removed the “Groups” link from the top of their search results page, in favor of a link to Google Video. Why would they do that? Their schemes for capturing the emerging online video market should not interfere with my work. I saw this link which uses something called Chickenfoot to restore the link, but I couldn’t find a Greasemonkey script to do the same, so here is my attempt at one. I even made it the first link in the row, because I think Groups is that important.

I had to do a little road trip for work. It was kind of fun saying to everyone (waiters, hotel front desk people) “Ya, I’m here on business.” I could see myself doing more of such trips. The charm of staying in a hotel room runs out, once you turn a certain age, but for me, the fun is going some place I’ll never be again, eating at their restaurants, meeting people I’ll never talk to again. Kind of weird, but I dig it.

This trip was to Los Olivos, a tiny townof about 5,000 people surrounded by wine country just north of Santa Barbara. At night, you could hear so many crickets and frogs that it sounded like you were camping in the woods. After I had gotten my work done at the site, I asked a local about what restaurant I should go to. It turns out that the restaurant from Sideways was just a block from me, so I went, and ate, and drank a bottle of really good wine. That’s the fun part of these business trips.