The thing about diets..

Every child remembers their parents telling them to lay off the snacks so that they don’t spoil dinner.. and yet many dieting pages refer to the strategy of eating 5-6 smaller meals a day. Not that eating less sugary snacks is a bad thing, but the childhood conditioning of saving ones stomach for a large […]

FC3 in vmware

Damn, this thing is super slow. I’m writing from it right now. Although the X server seems to be ok, doing a simple “yum update kernel” is super duper slow. I guess this 4G/4G patch thing really does make a huge difference.. and this seems to be confirmed both in the VMware forums as well […]

Nice.

I just discovered that emacs’ html mode actually recognizes <p> tags and uses them to break M-q paragraph alignment operations. I was always annoyed that it woul totally just merge stuff together.

Supplements

So I’ve been taking this Milk Thistle supplement which I got at Whole foods (for a mere 4 dollars) for about a week now. It’s supposed to be good for your liver, but what I have really noticed is that it seems to really help with reducing hang-over effects as well. I had at least […]

Speakeasy

What the heck is up with their website? A few months ago, there was this mysterious offer that would only show up if I accessed the site from work. It claimed that a special San Francisco and LA rate was available to new DSL subscribers.. the rates were significantly less than the current one-link rates.. […]

New goodies

Got a lot of new goodies: Panasonic Monitor 10R headphones: The headband is really tight and they’re not broken in yet, but they do sound pretty good. I really need some better output than the one that comes out of my dell workstation at work though. That’s to be remedied later Kinesis Maxim ergo keyboard: […]