A new version of the venerable UNIX find utility has been released – now with support for XPath.
One example:
$ ./find -xpath '/bin/*[@size > /bin/bash/@size]'
/bin/ipv6calc
/bin/rpm
Wow – how cool is this? Paratsone Studios offers a line of Hiëronymus Bosch action figures!
I’ve installed a copy of the TWiki wiki software to hold information on everything I research. It replaces the “Study” section of this web site.
Check it out if you’re interested – http://www.jarnot.com/twiki
From twinkies.com via Boing Boing:
Hostess Twinkies Sushi
Japanese animation, Hello Kitty, samurais, ninjas, and Sushi are really popular right now! Here’s a wild recipe that’s super easy to make and super fun to eat as a light and fruity snack! This recipe transforms the much loved Twinkie into a hip and tropical flavored treat.
Items Needed:
DIRECTIONS:
Slice Hostess Twinkies into pieces about an inch tall. Slice fruit roll ups in strips to be long enough and wide enough to wrap around the Hostess Twinkie pieces. Wrap the fruit roll ups around the Hostess Twinkie pieces. Place dried fruits and candies into the cream filling. Place Twinkie rolls on a plate or in a bento box. Garnish with strips of dried mango to resemble pickled ginger if you wish! Serve with chopsticks if you wish.
I was playing around with the night vision feature of my digital camcorder today. It makes my sons look downright eeeeevillllll…
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Fear the Jarnot children…
Ricky Gervais, creator and star of the excellent British comedy, “The Office“, has been asked by Matt Groening to write for The Simpsons.
Springfield, the garish home of the dysfunctional American cartoon family The Simpsons, is a long way from Slough. But the two towns will be linked next year in the form of Ricky Gervais, aka David Brent of The Office, who said yesterday he had become the first British writer to be asked to work on the American series.
Matt Groening, a fan of British comedy in general and The Office in particular, asked Gervais to write an episode after meeting him in Los Angeles last year when the British comedy won two Golden Globe awards.
“It was embarrassing, because he was saying how much he loved The Office and I was saying how much I loved The Simpsons. It turns you into a nerd because I was quoting bits of the show back at him,” said Gervais.
Having agreed to write the script with executive producer Al Jean, Gervais said he had already completed a first draft. “I bang it down, give it to them, they make it funny and I claim the credit,” he said. “I feel like I know Homer. It’s a joy.”
Almost forgot about this bit of shameless self-promotion. From the September 21, 2004 edition of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s MBA Newslink newsletter:
Kevin Jarnot, technology managing director at DebtX, Boston, has been appointed to a key committee of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO). He will serve as co-chair of the MISMO Commercial Architecture Workgroup, which oversees the development and proposed maintenance to all Commercial MISMO specifications.
Via BoingBoing:
I wish I had this when I was a little kid…
The Funhaler is an asthma medicine delivery device for kids. Traditional asthma inhalers scare kids into misuse (or non-use), but the Funhaler apparently “overcomes these difficulties by motivating the child to inhale willingly and effectively by the use of breath-driven incentive toys attached to the device, such as whistles and spinning discs.”
Wow. Someone named “Beale Screamer” has cracked MS’s Digital Rights Management (the copy protection in WMV and WMA files):
Beale Screamer has successfully cracked Microsoft’s copy protection used in Windows Media digital right management software. The crack called Freeme strips off the piece from the WMA or WMV file that prevents copying the file.This is extremely bad news for Microsoft. Because they had some deals going with movie studios and record labels in order to get WM used as a standard in digital media distribution online.
Microsoft’s has built DRM2 software in way that does allow copy-protection upgrades, so even that songs that are previously locked with WM technology can be unlocked, new songs can contain new copy-protections. But still these locks will be cracked as well. All copy protection methods are and will be cracked in the future.
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