Aughr’s Blog

Posted June 24, 2007

bynkii.com: It’s “kick the IT guy” season again

John Welch talks about IT’s dealings with users and their responsibilities in response to John Gruber’s criticisms of IT’s lack of acceptance of the iPhone.

(tags: it iphone john.welch)

Posted June 23, 2007

Posted June 23, 2007

As I occasionally download AVIs to my server and then want to fetch them easily, I wrote this bash function to do it for me easily:

grabavis () {
ssh server ‘ls ‘$1′/*.avi’ | xargs -I {} -n 1 basename {} | xargs -I {} -n 1 scp server:$1/{} Desktop/{}
}

Then, I was having some problems with some of the downloaded files having parentheses in them, thus throwing some errors. Thus, I wrote this:

stripparens () {
mv $1 `echo $1 | sed ’s/[()]//g’`
}

Useful stuff.

Posted June 21, 2007

Posted June 20, 2007

Sitting in Pierre Trudeau, Montreal’s airport, awaiting my flight to Chicago and then back to LA #

Posted June 19, 2007

Posted June 16, 2007

In Ottowa. At our concert I messed up the words on my solo - at least my tone was supposedly really good #
Gah! I’m in Quebec and I don’t speak a lick of French! #

Posted June 15, 2007

The Washington Monthly - All About Oil

Kevin Drum quotes Yegor Gaidar on how the USSR was brought down by Saudi Arabia’s change in oil policy.

(tags: oil saudi.arabia ussr)