Matthew Bohnsack

Believe it or not, Beef is now the proud owner of his very own blog.

Screencasting the heavy metal umlauts entry on Wikipedia (actual entry). Also check out this GoogleMaps screencast.

Via Luis Villa.

More on screencasting

This legislative session up in Santa Fe, there’s been some hubbub, as I understand there is almost annually, over the continued legality of cock fighting in New Mexico. The arguments go something like:

• Pro: Long-standing Hispanic tradition that’s part of New Mexico culture
• Con: Evil animal cruelty, bad crowd, etc.

I have two observations:

1. If this is such a wonderful part of our culture that’s so worthy of preservation, where are the billboards for local Albuquerque cockfights? Where are the webpages? Promotional radio ads? Celebrity roosters?
2. I want to go see I cockfight and find out for myself — I’m totally serious. Where are they? Are they safe? Would anyone be willing to escort me to a fight?

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications: Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. Think GoogleMaps or GoogleSuggest and new web apps made to have functionality and interactivity that has only traditionaly been possible with desktop apps (Microsoft Word, etc.). Powerful stuff!

slashdot discussion

I’m sure most of you know about the Wikipedia’s glory, but did you know about Wikibooks - a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit?

1. Finish getting old MT permalinks redirected to WP-style ones. I’ve already got the IDs right, now I just gotta get the rewrite rules to function correctly. See this. (Not perfect, but it works)
2. Postfix accepting mail on this box and mutt reading mail. Qmail turned off on the old box
3. Anti-spam measures (Postgrey, etc.)
4. mod_perl, HTML::Mason, and and least http://bohnsack.com/photos/ working.
5. The rest of the of old mod_perl/HTML::Mason pages
6. djbdns dnscache setup
7. virtual domains in general and sackvsbeef.com specifically

If things go well, this website will be hosted on a new server, possible with fancy new software by day’s end. As soon as the DNS changes propagate through the Internets, you’ll go there automatically. Until then, you can reach the new site by IP address: http://66.135.40.86/.

There are going to be some changes:

In other news, here’s Beef with Whoopi:

Beef might appreciate this photo I took at White Sands National Monument.

As part of my server move, I’m moving the xcat-user mailing list to someone else’s host. The transition isn’t done yet, but at least the archives have been moved from here to here.

Huge fan. Half a muffin every day for breakfast for the past two weeks.

It’s been revealed that George Soros, the man who wasted millions of his own money trying to swing the recent Presidential election to John Kerry through moveon.org and other means, funded the defense of Lynne Stewart, a civil rights lawyer who just last week was convicted and will face up to 20 years in prison for smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients — a radical Egyptian sheik — to his terrorist disciples on the outside.

What truly motivates George Soros? The destruction of the United States of America? There’s also a money trail from Soros that leads to Ward Churchil, via his Open Society Institute. Wow. Find out more about Soros.