http://www.thelastcitadel.com/ 2010-09-22T18:54:03-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/ http://www.thelastcitadel.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2007-05-04T11:54:09-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/09_f9_11_02_9d_74_e3_5b_d8_41_56_c5_63_56_88_c0?rev=1178304849 Bite me. HD-DVD <hiredman@thelastcitadel.com> <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070504-aacs-la-internet-revolt-be-damned-this-fight-is-not-over.html> text/html 2008-03-08T23:56:09-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/6_4?rev=1205049369 I DD-WRT’ed my ASUS WL-500gU. Recent versions of DD-WRT lack IPv6 support, so I chose the WL-500gU because of its USB port. I also bought a 1 GB flash drive so I can have space to install all the software I need. The router has just enough space on it to install the kernel modules needed to support USB drives. Once the usb kernel modules are loaded from the /jffs partition, I mount the USB driver over /jffs text/html 2009-02-06T13:58:51-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/a_vision_of_the_future?rev=1233957531 I have the sneaking suspicion that some time the next 30 days I am going to build a freebsd gateway/router/NAT/dhcp box. text/html 2007-04-02T13:43:23-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/atm_ate_my_debit_card?rev=1175546603 Last week when I tried to cash my pay check the ATM ate my card. The ATM was out of order, but I didn’t look at the dim little screen till after I put my card in. I pounded on all the buttons to see if it would spit my card out. It didn’t. Inside I was told that since the bank was closing they would be able to open up the machine and get my card out in a few minutes. They did not get my card back in a few minutes. Turns out something was very wrong with that machine. The recommend I cancel … text/html 2008-08-28T19:15:05-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/barbie?rev=1219976105 text/html 2007-04-03T10:54:25-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/bike_or_no_bike?rev=1175622865 I used to ride my bike to work when I worked at the mall. It was great. Then I got another job with different transportation logistics and my bike started to have some major alignment problems that I haven’t been able to fix. And this being Seattle riding in the winter really sucks. So I stopped. But now the weather is turning and I want to ride. Amazon is selling bikes for less then $200. I also have been trying to get together a new core 2 duo desktop. I have money for one or the other. text/html 2007-12-10T22:39:52-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/books_on_my_desk?rev=1197355192 * Inquisition * Exposition of the Divine Principle * Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values * An Introduction to Zen Buddhism * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream * Manual of Zen Buddhism text/html 2008-07-10T12:31:06-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/budgetting_for_budgets?rev=1215718266 Yesterday the $OWNER of $COMPANY was in a tizzy about budgets. I keep the budgets for the business. The budgets are basically just lists of expenses on a job. Expenses break down as labor and material. So $OWNER asked me to print out info on a lot of budgets so she could micromanage them. This got me to thinking that maybe I should do a weekly budget report available to everyone in the office. When I ran the idea by my immediate boss his reaction was “No, no no, No”. text/html 2007-06-17T20:15:31-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/camera_and_new_look?rev=1182136531 I got a Canon Powershot A560. It is neat. IN the future I will post pictures i take with it. And if you haven’t noticed I am working on shoe horning a design from styleshout onto dokuwiki text/html 2008-07-15T13:21:42-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/cat?rev=1216153302 text/html 2009-06-04T12:11:06-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/clojure_multi-method?rev=1244142666 sort of pattern matchie (defmulti fib identity) (defmethod fib 0 [x] 0) (defmethod fib 1 [x] 1) (defmethod fib :default [n] (+ (fib (- n 2)) (fib (- n 1)))) text/html 2007-11-06T23:59:04-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/colgate_is_for_losers?rev=1194422344 text/html 2008-11-16T01:31:09-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/combinator?rev=1226827869 (defn K [x] (fn [y] x )) (defn S [x] (fn [y] (fn [z] ((x z) (y z))))) (defn I [x] (((S K) K) x)) (defmacro combinate [& x] (loop [i x] (if (> (count i) 2) (recur (conj (drop 2 i) (list (first i) (second i)))) i))) text/html 2008-11-16T10:27:01-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/combinator_fn?rev=1226860021 (defn combinate [& x] (loop [i x f I] (if (> (count i) 2) (recur (rest i) (f (first i))) f))) text/html 2007-09-07T14:30:35-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/coons?rev=1189200635 These guys live in a tree in the Kubo’s front yard. I surprised them one night and took some flash photography. text/html 2008-03-05T22:38:03-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/everybody_loves_hypno-toad?rev=1204785483 text/html 2008-11-19T21:18:25-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/form_at_line_n?rev=1227158305 overly simple form parser (defn form-reader [charsource] (loop [[c & r] (seq charsource) open-parens-count 0 out []] (cond (= \( c) (recur r (inc open-parens-count) (conj out c)) (= \) c) (recur r (dec open-parens-count) (conj out c)) (and (not= 0 (count out)) (= open-parens-count 0)) (apply str out) :else (recur r open-parens-count (conj out c))))) (defn… text/html 2007-06-09T20:38:32-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/free_tv_for_you_from_our_benevolent_chinese_overlords?rev=1181446712 open in vlc, totem, or windows media player * <mms://media.bjiptv.com/present> * <mms://energy10.egihosting.com/561245/> * <mms://livemms.online2.sh.cn/JingPinYingYuan> * <mms://online.ntdtvcast.com/Stream-Live> * <http://live.njbg.com.cn:88/NJTV05> * <http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/14635/thenational/thenational.wmv> * <mms://livemedia2.omroep.nl/varahumor-bb> * <http://dynamic.cnn.com/video/meta/live/stream.1.large.asx> * <http://64.157.15.135:8000> * <http://64.157.15.13… text/html 2008-07-18T11:32:29-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/friday_working?rev=1216405949 text/html 2007-12-11T20:46:17-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/golden_compass?rev=1197434777 I saw The Golden Compass on Sunday. Possibly the worst editing job I have ever seen. Cost me $10 too. text/html 2007-11-21T11:47:46-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/hd_madness?rev=1195674466 The Kubo’s bought a set a year or two ago. But they have no HD content. No HD dvds, they have Comcast Digital Cable but that is not HD. The only HD content that has graced that 720p(I know 1080p 4evr) screen besides the last time they left town and I used into to hack into the matrix and broadcast my pirate signals. They have left town again to go skiing in idaho over the thanksgiving weekend. Perfect. I happen to have some 720p content. So I will just wire up the laptop to the tv and let it … text/html 2009-02-03T21:30:49-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/i_am_really_tired_of_this_bullshit?rev=1233725449 the soho router/gateway/dhcp boxes most people have in their homes are crap. all they do is cause problems. And I have to deal with this shit. At home, at work, and other people’s homes. Ugh. I hate it. D-Link, Belkin, Linksys, etc. Burn in fire. text/html 2008-11-21T02:31:32-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/i_am_undone?rev=1227263492 A blackard, A villain. text/html 2007-05-04T11:24:40-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/i_exist_at_the_far_end_of_time?rev=1178303080 I have been thinking about my existence in time. Am I me in the future? If so, what rights does that future me claim over my present self? And since it is me then, isn’t it in my best interest to do what is best for me then now? text/html 2007-04-02T13:20:43-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/in_the_begining?rev=1175545243 This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual blog entry I wouldn’t not have written it. text/html 2007-07-19T12:55:35-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/ing_direct?rev=1184874935 text/html 2007-11-15T13:04:57-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/invisible_fireball?rev=1195160697 text/html 2007-08-13T15:37:43-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/late_night_snack?rev=1187044663 Last Saturday morning at about 1:00 AM I decided to walk to the Q.F.C. and get some Diet Coke and cookies. There is a train yard between me and the Q.F.C. but fortunately there is also a bridge over the tracks. That night/morning there was a woman on the bridge with a cellphone. I ignored her because I hate people and ignore them as much as possible. She did look distraught, and I thought she might be jumping off the bridge. text/html 2007-09-25T02:14:36-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/live_n_large_on_%EC%A0%9C%EC%A3%BC_island?rev=1190711676 [live'n large] text/html 2007-12-10T12:59:28-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/monday?rev=1197320368 text/html 2007-12-13T19:34:07-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/more_books?rev=1197603247 A new Good Will store just opened up next to the office, so I bought some books: * Camouflage * The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living * Modern Ireland: 1600 ~ 1972 * The Sky Road * The Lazarus Effect * 1001 Yiddish Proverbs * Running with Scissors text/html 2007-06-11T14:24:23-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/more_tests?rev=1181597063 Your Type is INTJ Introverted Intuitive Thinking Judging Strength of the preferences % 67 12 12 1 Qualitative analysis of your type formula You are: * distinctively expressed introvert * slightly expressed intuitive personality * slightly expressed thinking personality * slightly expressed judging personality text/html 2008-01-25T00:08:25-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/neo-martian-crypto-anarcho-capitalism?rev=1201248505 text/html 2007-06-13T22:40:11-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/norby?rev=1181799611 [[[http://www.wireless-weblog.com/50226711/darpas_landroid_tiny_wireless_crawling_robots_at_war.php]]] text/html 2008-03-21T11:33:01-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/ntwrk_cr?rev=1206124381 text/html 2008-03-29T23:07:42-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/ntwrk_cr_ii?rev=1206857262 text/html 2008-04-08T07:36:39-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/ntwrk_cr_iii?rev=1207665399 text/html 2007-04-12T09:26:06-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/physics?rev=1176395166 We had a “seminar” today in English class. Which was funny because the hand out we got about seminars basiclly said the $500 paid for the class was a waste, and we all should have joined a book club/discsussion group at the local library. What got my goat about the seminar was durring the seminar, my classmates appeared to be making the case that difficulty is and excuse for not doing something. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary. Everything is difficult. If you believe in what you are doing, even if… text/html 2008-11-13T12:57:21-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/pipe_macro?rev=1226609841 (defmacro |> [& x] (loop [q (rest x) w (first x)] (if q (recur (rest q) (list (first q) w)) w))) This macro is rather similar to -->. In fact I wrote it because I did not understand -->. |> is simpler then -->. |> can also take function literals in the pipeline, which --> tends to make a mess of. text/html 2008-07-07T10:31:42-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/pro_tip?rev=1215451902 Yesterday I went to Red Robin with some out of towners who were in town for T2. We left a 15% tip. And a paper crane, a stick of gum, a fifty-cent piece, a cough-drop, and a Lowe’s coupon for $25 off a purchase of $250 or more. text/html 2008-03-07T23:05:25-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/reluctant_webdesigner_the?rev=1204959925 My church’s website was an embarrassment so I rebuilt it around drupal. One of the summer programs affiliated with my church was having problems with their webforms so I fixed them. Today when I gave my landlady the rent check, she started asking me about her website. text/html 2007-04-06T11:12:43-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/retarded_apple_patent_on_icon_size?rev=1175883163 <http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2637> thank god they were able to patent this innovation so they can be compensated for the years of R&D they put into it. I guess nautilus which has had this feature for years now will have to remove so as not to infringe on Apple’s patents. text/html 2007-12-08T13:58:33-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/rise_of_the_machines?rev=1197151113 I have had my own jabber server for sometime now, but I have picked it back up and started to play with it. I discovered a really cool jabber bot written in ruby <http://socket7.net/software/jabber-bot> so now all my computers run their own bot you can talk to. text/html 2007-11-20T21:56:47-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/service_for_peace_saturday?rev=1195624607 Last Saturday the local SFP “chapter” here in Seattle volunteered at an EarthCorps project. There was much destruction of invasive blackberry bushes and laying down of gravel paths. pictures text/html 2007-06-10T11:32:49-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/super_hero_personality?rev=1181500369 text/html 2009-08-19T02:07:15-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/super_structure?rev=1250672835 text/html 2007-06-06T10:36:13-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/super_villain_personality?rev=1181151373 text/html 2008-05-27T11:28:03-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/tagged?rev=1211912883 tag:thelastcitadel.com,1984-09-25:KevinDowney text/html 2008-05-29T12:38:14-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/the_carpenter?rev=1212089894 I moved into a new place at the beginning of May. I boxed up all my books and a friend agreed to drive me and all my stuff over. All the bookshelves I was using belonged to the family I had been renting a room from, so I needed some of my own shelves for my new place. text/html 2007-09-07T17:32:51-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/the_happenings?rev=1189211571 Here I am to tell you what is going on or happening. I bought a new DAP(Digital Audio Player) a SanDisk Sansa e260. I rockbox‘ed it and now it is completely awesome. The reason I bought a new music player is I am flying to Korea on the 17th which will be a long and boring flight. Less boring with tunes and audiobooks. Earlier there was a plan for myself and my father to go to china and hang out for sometime. But now myself and my parents will be driving around Korea at the time of heaviest t… text/html 2008-01-27T17:24:04-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/the_impossible_quiz?rev=1201483444 text/html 2007-10-09T11:43:12-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/topology?rev=1191955392 text/html 2008-01-29T20:07:27-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/twenty_four_inches_of_amazing?rev=1201666047 text/html 2007-08-06T14:01:45-07:00 http://www.thelastcitadel.com/blag/wifi_mesh?rev=1186434105 I want a wifi mesh. <www.seattlewireless.net> I am stockpiling WHR-G125 wifi routers. They are $39.99 with free shipping from newegg. You can use DD-WRT on them. Now I need to make some antenna