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1. + Azathoth (March the 10th, 2010 | 4:31 pm)

   Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes...

2. This week in music (March the 8th, 2010 | 12:00 pm)

   Top 5 artists:

   1. Abney Park - 613 plays
   2. Epica - 533 plays
   3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
   4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
   5. Mortiis - 265 plays

   Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

3. + Cthulhu fhtagn. (March the 4th, 2010 | 6:11 pm)

   My laptop, Cthulhu, is, alas, dreaming. In my laptop bag currently, not quite as grand as his sunken city of R'lyeh, but it'll have to do for now.

4. @salout !emacs is the One True Editor; #auctex is brilliant :P #editorwar (March the 3rd, 2010 | 9:40 pm)
5. Microsoft security chief suggests Internet tax: http://www.itworld.com/software/98522/microsofts-charney-suggests-net-tax-clean-computers (March the 3rd, 2010 | 4:21 pm)
6. This week in music (March the 1st, 2010 | 12:00 pm)

   Top 5 artists:

   1. Abney Park - 613 plays
   2. Epica - 533 plays
   3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
   4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
   5. Mortiis - 265 plays

   Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

7. 100,000 plays on lastfm :D (February the 28th, 2010 | 10:45 pm)
8. Considering starting #mpddp 3, a complete rewrite in C. I only finished adding functionality to mpddp 2 12 days ago... (February the 28th, 2010 | 6:39 pm)
9. Aha! I am slightly closer to debugging my database written in #Pascal! (I hate this language) (February the 25th, 2010 | 4:34 pm)
10. I just lost the game (February the 24th, 2010 | 6:09 pm)
11. #Pascal is a horrible language… (February the 24th, 2010 | 5:52 pm)
12. Suffering through Pascal… (February the 22nd, 2010 | 7:50 pm)
13. This week in music (February the 22nd, 2010 | 12:00 pm)

    Top 5 artists:

    1. Abney Park - 613 plays
    2. Epica - 533 plays
    3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
    4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
    5. Mortiis - 265 plays

    Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

14. + MPDDP 2 Signals (February the 20th, 2010 | 7:59 pm)

    Greetings, legion of MPDDP users, there is another update! With it, MPDDP has been bumped to version 2.0.1, as the configuration file format is the same, so things will keep working, but the “update” keyword no longer does anything.

15. Having fun playing with #nbd (Network Block Device), I never knew about this thing !archlinux (February the 19th, 2010 | 4:59 pm)
16. + Network Block Device (February the 19th, 2010 | 11:04 am)

    I discovered this wonderful thing yesterday, nbd is, simply, a way of sharing block devices over a network. I currently have my server rsyncing to a backup HDD attached to my laptop.

17. + New HDD for my server (February the 18th, 2010 | 10:36 pm)

    I've been having some problems with the old(ish) 80GB HDD I've been using with my server—it developed bad sectors which made any disk-related operation (even (un)mounting partitions on different physical devices, for some reason) incredibly slow. I'm not exaggerating when I say that rebooting took about 45 minutes to an hour. Also, the bad sectors caused loads of error output to be logged and, as I thought a 5GB root partition would be more than enough, that quickly filled causing more problems…

18. #mpddp 2 has been released; check my blog (February the 16th, 2010 | 8:25 pm)
19. + MPDDP 2: Functionally complete (February the 16th, 2010 | 7:01 pm)

    That's right, MPDDP 2 is now functionally complete, it can do everything that regular MPDDP can, and more. The downside is that, currently, it's incredibly slow to start up, but I'm thinking of a solution for that.The whole routine for checking if a track is allowed by the rule is fairly inefficient currently, so that'll likely be rewritten completely soon and, for ease of parsing, I might change the rule syntax to S-expressions. Perhaps a MPDDP 2.1 already?

20. This week in music (February the 15th, 2010 | 2:02 am)

    Top 5 artists:

    1. Abney Park - 613 plays
    2. Epica - 533 plays
    3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
    4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
    5. Mortiis - 265 plays

    Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

1. @salout !emacs is the One True Editor; #auctex is brilliant :P #editorwar (March the 3rd, 2010 | 9:40 pm)
2. Microsoft security chief suggests Internet tax: http://www.itworld.com/software/98522/microsofts-charney-suggests-net-tax-clean-computers (March the 3rd, 2010 | 4:21 pm)
3. 100,000 plays on lastfm :D (February the 28th, 2010 | 10:45 pm)
4. Considering starting #mpddp 3, a complete rewrite in C. I only finished adding functionality to mpddp 2 12 days ago... (February the 28th, 2010 | 6:39 pm)
5. Aha! I am slightly closer to debugging my database written in #Pascal! (I hate this language) (February the 25th, 2010 | 4:34 pm)
6. I just lost the game (February the 24th, 2010 | 6:09 pm)
7. #Pascal is a horrible language… (February the 24th, 2010 | 5:52 pm)
8. Suffering through Pascal… (February the 22nd, 2010 | 7:50 pm)
9. Having fun playing with #nbd (Network Block Device), I never knew about this thing !archlinux (February the 19th, 2010 | 4:59 pm)
10. #mpddp 2 has been released; check my blog (February the 16th, 2010 | 8:25 pm)
11. Added a stripped-down github feed to my #lifestream and expanded it to hold 20 items... (February the 11th, 2010 | 10:18 pm)
12. Ooh, didn't know there was a !fractal group. Hi, fractal-fans :D (February the 11th, 2010 | 12:46 am)
13. Woo, my #fractal generator is multithreaded! Albeit, it is *only* multithreaded now, and functions with *only* 2 threads, but it's a start (February the 11th, 2010 | 12:44 am)
14. I very nearly have multithreading in my fractal generator :) (February the 10th, 2010 | 8:32 pm)
15. Having fun writing a #Mandelbrot generator in C :D (February the 6th, 2010 | 12:07 am)
16. Made the identi.ca feed on my #website a lot more lifestreamy (February the 5th, 2010 | 4:47 pm)
17. !listening to Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' (February the 4th, 2010 | 6:38 pm)
18. Aww, my vnStat database somehow vanished, I've lost a couple of months worth of stats for my #server :( (February the 3rd, 2010 | 5:02 pm)
19. Wrote a simple script using #sendxmpp to notify me about the status of my server: http://tinyurl.com/yzwjzj6 (February the 2nd, 2010 | 8:09 pm)
20. Server bug earlier: all tools reported / was full, and couldn't save any files. After rebooting, it showed the correct usage of 2GB... (February the 1st, 2010 | 10:55 pm)

1. + Azathoth (March the 10th, 2010 | 4:31 pm)

   Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes...

2. + Cthulhu fhtagn. (March the 4th, 2010 | 6:11 pm)

   My laptop, Cthulhu, is, alas, dreaming. In my laptop bag currently, not quite as grand as his sunken city of R'lyeh, but it'll have to do for now.

3. + MPDDP 2 Signals (February the 20th, 2010 | 7:59 pm)

   Greetings, legion of MPDDP users, there is another update! With it, MPDDP has been bumped to version 2.0.1, as the configuration file format is the same, so things will keep working, but the “update” keyword no longer does anything.

4. + Network Block Device (February the 19th, 2010 | 11:04 am)

   I discovered this wonderful thing yesterday, nbd is, simply, a way of sharing block devices over a network. I currently have my server rsyncing to a backup HDD attached to my laptop.

5. + New HDD for my server (February the 18th, 2010 | 10:36 pm)

   I've been having some problems with the old(ish) 80GB HDD I've been using with my server—it developed bad sectors which made any disk-related operation (even (un)mounting partitions on different physical devices, for some reason) incredibly slow. I'm not exaggerating when I say that rebooting took about 45 minutes to an hour. Also, the bad sectors caused loads of error output to be logged and, as I thought a 5GB root partition would be more than enough, that quickly filled causing more problems…

6. + MPDDP 2: Functionally complete (February the 16th, 2010 | 7:01 pm)

   That's right, MPDDP 2 is now functionally complete, it can do everything that regular MPDDP can, and more. The downside is that, currently, it's incredibly slow to start up, but I'm thinking of a solution for that.The whole routine for checking if a track is allowed by the rule is fairly inefficient currently, so that'll likely be rewritten completely soon and, for ease of parsing, I might change the rule syntax to S-expressions. Perhaps a MPDDP 2.1 already?

7. + Half Term Week, and, one month of Spork Bomb (February the 12th, 2010 | 10:40 pm)

   Well, one month tomorrow, but near enough.

8. + Mandelbrot and Julia generator (February the 7th, 2010 | 12:41 am)

   Over the past couple of days I've been working on what started as a Mandelbrot Set generator, but has expanded into a Julia Set generator and, with the growing number of command-line parameters, can generate other stuff too, like Tricorn and Multibrot sets. Currently I'm using the simple escape-time algorithm for generating colours, which looks a bit rubbish, but it's a start to having wonderfully coloured fractals.

9. + XMPP Status Updates (February the 2nd, 2010 | 8:03 pm)

   Yesterday I had the idea of writing a cronjob to, every five minutes say, check things like the CPU load and temperature, and send me a message via Jabber is anything was amiss. I then realised that I could have this script send me a list of new posts in my RSS feeds, and a list of package updates, and even a notification when a torrent is done.

10. + Why Hurd? (January the 29th, 2010 | 11:11 am)

    A thread by opengl_cpp on the Ubuntu forums got me thinking about, well, why Hurd? Why Arch Hurd? I posted a short answer in that thread but now I'll try to answer more in depth here.

1. + Screenshot: 2010-01-29 (January the 29th, 2010 | 12:00 am)
   
2. + Screenshot: 2009-12-22 (December the 22nd, 2009 | 12:00 am)
   
3. + Screenshot: 2009-11-01 (November the 1st, 2009 | 12:00 am)
   
4. + Screenshot: 2009-10-01 (October the 1st, 2009 | 1:00 am)
   
5. + Screenshot: 2009-09-12 (September the 12th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
   
6. + Screenshot: 2009-09-06 (September the 6th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
   
7. + Screenshot: 2009-08-08 (August the 8th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
   
8. + Screenshot: 2009-07-16 (July the 16th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
   
9. + Screenshot: 2009-07-15 (July the 15th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
   
10. + Screenshot: 2009-07-11 (July the 11th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
11. + Screenshot: 2009-07-06 (July the 6th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
12. + Screenshot: 2009-06-21 (June the 21st, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
13. + Screenshot: 2009-06-06 (June the 6th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
14. + Screenshot: 2009-05-30 (May the 30th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
15. + Screenshot: 2009-05-27 (May the 27th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
16. + Screenshot: 2009-05-21 (May the 21st, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
17. + Screenshot: 2009-05-16 (May the 16th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
18. + Screenshot: 2009-05-15 (May the 15th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
19. + Screenshot: 2009-05-04 (May the 4th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    
20. + Screenshot: 2009-04-19 (April the 19th, 2009 | 1:00 am)
    

1. This week in music (March the 8th, 2010 | 12:00 pm)

   Top 5 artists:

   1. Abney Park - 613 plays
   2. Epica - 533 plays
   3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
   4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
   5. Mortiis - 265 plays

   Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

2. This week in music (March the 1st, 2010 | 12:00 pm)

   Top 5 artists:

   1. Abney Park - 613 plays
   2. Epica - 533 plays
   3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
   4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
   5. Mortiis - 265 plays

   Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

3. This week in music (February the 22nd, 2010 | 12:00 pm)

   Top 5 artists:

   1. Abney Park - 613 plays
   2. Epica - 533 plays
   3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
   4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
   5. Mortiis - 265 plays

   Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

4. This week in music (February the 15th, 2010 | 2:02 am)

   Top 5 artists:

   1. Abney Park - 613 plays
   2. Epica - 533 plays
   3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
   4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
   5. Mortiis - 265 plays

   Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

5. This week in music (February the 8th, 2010 | 2:14 am)

   Top 5 artists:

   1. Abney Park - 613 plays
   2. Epica - 533 plays
   3. Nox Arcana - 361 plays
   4. Zelda Reorchestrated - 350 plays
   5. Mortiis - 265 plays

   Total artists: 287, total plays: 10645

1. + Barrucadu started watching sdelafond/mpd (February the 11th, 2010 | 11:45 am)
2. + Barrucadu created branch master at Barrucadu/mpd-utils (February the 11th, 2010 | 10:09 am)
3. + Barrucadu created repository mpd-utils (February the 11th, 2010 | 10:07 am)
4. + Barrucadu created branch master at Barrucadu/fractalgen (February the 11th, 2010 | 10:01 am)
5. + Barrucadu created repository fractalgen (February the 11th, 2010 | 9:59 am)