http://www.dwink.net i owned a company and all i got was this stupid blog Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:46:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After 11 years, it is a beautiful thing to grab a new record from an old favorite band, bring it home and unwrap it, and discover that as much as has changed in the world around you has changed in your old favorite band, and yet it's just as familiar ... http://www.dwink.net/2008/06/22/portishead-third/ There's something wonky going on here.After my last post, I found that the 'benq' setup wasn't working for headphones, which is my primary use for sound on the lappy. So, I found another post which says that if you suspend and resume the laptop (Fn-F1), sound 'magically' starts to work. ... http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/20/lenovo-y410soundagain/ Watched part one of the American Idol finale, and once again felt like the show was orchestrated to encourage voting for the younger, more 'pop' star contestant. Same as last year. Neither contestant really did much of anything outside of their normal oeuvre, but still it felt like the judges ... http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/20/today-is-not-my-day/ My university has a neat program called "Ask An Alum" where students can ask alumni from their school questions about, well, anything. So today, I logged in and updated my profile, writing up what I'm doing now. It was kind of surreal; it almost felt like bragging. I remember now when ... http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/16/back-in-the-day/ By an overwhelming majority of online and offline votes, the cutest little pup is now officially: Augie Doggie However, in the interest of staying true to my family's convention of adding hundreds of names to everyone, along with nicknames galore, he may also be referred to as: Kitsune (for his Japanese roots ) Chiba ... http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/13/the-dogs-name-is/ The Contenders:SamAxlAuggie DoggieAll votes counted tonight when I get home from work.... http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/12/the-name-contest/ ...but could you resist this face? http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/11/im-such-a-sucker/ I upgraded to Kubutu Hardy Heron recently, and found that it's easier to get sound working on this lappy now. You still need to use module-assistant to install alsa from source, and I'm finding that I still need to have options snd-hda-intel index=0 probe_mask=1 model=benq in my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base. However, now sound seems to be ... http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/11/update-lenovo-y410-2/ Need a junior developer to work with release management tasks -- Perl/Python scripting, C++ builds using GNU Make, source control and management. The right person could grow into Bigger Things over time. So, if you know someone who's graduating or recently graduated, and who wants to live in Chicago, or ... http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/08/hiring-again/ This comic sums up pretty well what happened to me. http://www.dwink.net/2008/05/02/my-cholesterol/