Christopher Blizzard

I love you.

Category: General

streaming video in firefox

Asa Dotzler has been trying to get live streaming working with our new native video support that’s coming with Firefox 3.1.  That is, video that is taken by a camera, encoded and pushed directly out to a web server instead of stored as a file so you can watch an event in real time.  The [...]

six little chances to learn before your next work week

These tabs have been hanging around in my browser for a week or so and it’s time to put them into a post.  Lots of good material here, even if absorbing it might take a few hours.
1.  First, Seth Godin on Be careful of who you work for.  This is a way to think of [...]

another great paul graham essay

Loved this essay from Paul Graham on the Lies We Tell Kids. This quote struck me as useful for the future:

If parents told their kids the truth about sex and drugs, it would be: the reason you should avoid these things is that you have lousy judgement. People with twice your experience still get [...]

history meme

As taken from my personal machine.

[blizzard@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:49:59 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[blizzard@localhost ~]$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
164 ls
154 cd
110 pwd
104 svn
84 grep
80 ./start-whoisi.py
47 less
41 ssh
31 tg-admin
18 mysql

giving in

I finally gave in and signed up for a twitter account.

dear phil

It’s cold here. And no one loves me anymore. Where are you?

Love,
Your car.

what he said. you know. about the goats.

Indeed, I had the same experience that Mike had with the colo that hosts my machine, since they were in the same room. Our mutual good friend also picked up our big 4U server and hauled it off into the night to a warm place with power and connectivity. That’s why my non-work [...]

an evening’s conversation

<sluftie> you have short teeth
<blizzard> ???

snapshots

I guess it was inevitable

I guess someone had to do it. It was only a matter of time. A Novell ad for Linux that is a parody of the Mac vs. PC ad. And they chose the obvious: a hot girl to play the part of Linux.
A few weeks ago, without knowledge that such a campaign [...]