http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling ...and other boring stuff. Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:23:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last month I bought a 2006 Suzuki SV650/S. It is a ton of fun. Notice the no parking sign on this remote stretch of two-lane road. I am such a rebel. I sold my ninja soon after this picture was taken. Anyway, hooray for the open road. Full gallery is here. http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2008/09/08/a-used-bike/ A while back I made a little web page to spruce up ls output. Of course I completely forgot about it until recently. Some of Ubuntu's default colors were hard to see in Terminal.app, so I added mostly-working LS_COLORS for Linux. The string format is completely different, and harder to ... http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2008/06/27/lscolorsls_colors-now-with-linux-support/ A few weeks ago I rode my Ninja 250 from San Jose, CA to Spokane, WA and back, averaging just over 500 miles a day. The gallery of photos is here. The trip was a ton of fun, although by the second day each way I was a little sore. ... http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2008/06/19/2000-miles-on-a-ninja-250/ I finally got around to uploading pictures of the thermite from last year. Here's the gallery. Highlights: http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2008/06/15/thermite/ I finished my first marathon, the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. My time was 3:18:00, which isn't bad considering my longest run before the marathon was 18 miles. For most of the run I stuck with the fastest guy in an Elvis costume, who was pacing for 3:15. The ... http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2008/06/02/marathon/ For the past couple of months my greatest annoyance about Bloglines was that it stripped out all <object> and <embed> tags for security reasons. This is fine and good, except that most feeds embed videos using these tags instead of as RSS attachments. Google Reader has supported a whitelist of ... http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2008/03/24/new-bloglines-feature-videos-in-feeds/ I recently finished taking the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's basic rider course and got my M1 endorsement. The next week-end I bought a brand-new (well it's a year old but it had zero miles on the odometer) 2007 Kawasaki Ninja 250R. I got a decent deal since Kawasaki redesigned the bike ... http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2008/03/06/a-new-motorcycle/ I've noticed the search suggestions on Ask.com are a little... preoccupied with a certain topic: I know medical searches are increasing, but this is a little ridiculous. http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2007/12/22/askcom-search-suggestions/ While I was stuck in an airport Sunday, I spent an hour or so working on a clone of Bjorn's Karmerd (link not available because Bjorn took down all his stuff). He has stopped development since getting frustrated with a BerkeleyDB incompatibility. Basically this web app allows you to increase ... http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2007/11/29/karma/ Last Saturday I bought a 1997 Mazda Miata. Since I moved to a warmer climate I've wanted a convertible of some kind. My requirements were: Convertible, duh. Target price of $5,000. This means used, but I wanted to pay cash instead of financing. More expensive cars also cost more to insure. The car ... http://mipsisrisc.com/rambling/2007/10/12/a-used-car/