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viernes, abril 23, 2010

Goodbye, MySpace blog

I am letting people know that I am ending my MySpace blog.  While MySpace was the dominant social networking site in the mid-2000s (first decade), MySpace’s popularity declined in the late 2000s and the current popular social networking site is Facebook.

One reason I kept my MySpace blog even after MySpace got relegated to being a place for musicians to share their music is because I like how I can have private blogs only certain very close friends can see.

Unfortunately, said close friends are no longer actively using MySpace, so there is no longer any point for me to use this feature.

I will in the future set up a new personal blog and link to it.  In the meantime, feel free to read my technology-related blog:

http://maradns.blogspot.com/

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domingo, enero 31, 2010

Time to start eating healthy

Categoría: Comidas y restaurantes

It's time for me to start eating healthy.

Fortunately, my beautiful fiancée knows the exotic secrets of healthy Mexican food.

When people from California or other parts of the Southwest think of "Mexican Food", they think of things like tacos and burritos.  Their image a of "quesadilla" is this huge thing with a 12" diameter flour tortilla, lots of melted cheese along with chicken or whatever else they put in it.  They think of nachos as Mexican food.

While all that is a part of the Mexican culture (except for nachos, which is an American invention), the food my fiancée likes to cook here in the heart of Mexico is quite different, and quite frankly, more healthy.

For example, my fiancée's favorite vegetable is something called nopales.  Nopales are a type of round cactus.  If you shave off the thorns, you get a very healthy vegetable full of fiber and other healthy things.  It's a little difficult to cook; while a Nopal can be grilled, like a chicken breast, doing so doesn't get rid of this slime nopales have called baba, which, while perfectly healthy, takes some getting used to.

To cook nopales without having the annoying baba, cut the nopales up in to little squares, and cook in boiling water for about five minutes.  Add a pinch of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) to keep the nopales green.  After boiling the nopales in small squares, run it through a strainer or colander, which gets rid of the baba.  It has a very hearty, healthy flavor to it.

They can be eaten as a side dish, and can also be part of a Mexican salad with tomatoes, a healthy low-fat Mexican cheese called queso panela, a Mexican herb called cilantro, spinach, avocado, a healthy seed called chai, and some olive oil and vinegar as the salad dressing.

Another way to enjoy nopales is to drink it with oranges or grapefruits.  Take three fresh oranges or grapefruits per glass of nopal juice you wish to make, and cut them in half and run them through a juicer to make juice from the citric fruit.  My fiancée likes to add some of the pulp back in to the juice to increase its fiber content and make it more healthy.  Next, take the orange juice (or grapefruit juice) and add one small nopal for a single glass of juice, or two small nopals/one large nopal for two glasses of juice.  Mix in a blender, and a minute later you will have an extremely healthy Mexican 100% natural fruit beverage.

Tomorrow: I will discuss Mexican squash (Calabazas), and how people make quesadillas in the heart of Mexico.

In the meantime, some web pages where you can buy authentic Mexican food:

http://www.mymexicanpantry.com/

http://www.mexgrocer.com/

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viernes, enero 22, 2010

I’m addicted to useless internet sites

Categoría: Web, HTML, tecnología

I’m addicted to useless Internet sites.  For example, I am now on my third account at slashdot.org, and have had my last two comments there moderated up to 5 (considered by readers of Slashdot as very well-written comments).  Whoop de doo.  OK, so I can write well enough to get moderated up to 5 at Slashdot.  That and a dollar buys me a cup of coffee.

As another example, I’m yet another contributer at the Wikipedia.  The Wikipedia is a useful site to read and get basic reference information about a topic, but it’s a real waste of time to edit there.  Wikipedia doesn’t need more editors; they need fewer editors.

So, one of my 2010 resolutions is to not go to Slashdot and only go to Wikipedia to read articles.

I did this last night and ended up really, really bored.  Since I’m still recovering from last weekend’s sickness (I’m mostly recovered), I didn’t go out to run.  Instead, I was sitting at home resting.  I ended up adding a bunch of old photos to my Desert Island disk to fill it up without needing to add programs I don’t use to it.

I called up an old friend and talked with him.  I went on to Facebook, and after uploading some of those old photos I added to the Desert Island disk, found some old college buddies who I am now “friends” with.

So, yeah.  No Slashdot for 2010.  No Wikipedia editing for 2010.  And find more productive things to do with my time when I’m bored.  Such as finishing up MaraDNS 2.0, so I can put that project to rest.

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lunes, enero 11, 2010

Barry White: Love’s Theme

Categoría: Música

There is an early 1970s song you’ve probably heard, and probably don’t know its name or who wrote it.  In more detail:

* Instrumental

* Wah-wah guitar

* Strings

* Used by ABC sports for its golf coverage until the late 1980s, among other things

* Number one hit in early 1974.

* Considered to have a “Disco” sound (probably because of the aforementioned wah-wah guitar, not to mention the big strings), but is quite down-tempo and I consider it more of a “Chill” song myself.

Well, listening to Barry White yesterday, I heard this song and said “Barry White did that song!”  The song is by Barry White, and it’s called Love’s theme.

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miércoles, diciembre 30, 2009

My 2010 resolutions

Categoría: Vida

Now that the 2000s (2000-2009) are ending and we are entering the 2010s, here is my plan for 2010:

* Put closure on MaraDNS.  Deadwood 3.0 will be my rewrite of MaraDNS' recursive resolver; MaraDNS 2.0 will be MaraDNS 1.4 using Deadwood instead of the old recursor to resolve recursive queries.

* Exercise four times a week and go somewhere spiritual (religious service, 12-step meeting, Bible study, Yoga, etc.) five times a week.

* Marry my fiancée.  Be a good husband for her.

* Return to the US and get a job with a living wage again.  Ideally, in the San Francisco East Bay (Tri-Valley) area.

* Pray at least once a day.

* Only go to “time sink” websites (Wikipedia to edit, Slashdot, Digg, any and all online forums, Facebook to do anything but keep in touch with family and friends, etc.) while at work and there is nothing to do.  Ideally, find a job keeping me busy enough there is no need to go to those types of sites at all.

* Eat a minimum of junk food and a maximum of natural, healthy food, with a lot of vegetables and an adequate amount of protein in my diet.

* Read every article on the front page of The New York Times every day.

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jueves, diciembre 17, 2009

The economy is starting to pick up

Categoría: Noticias y política

It looks like the economy is starting to pick up.  My buddy, who has been job hunting since being laid off last May, got 1, 2, make that 3 job offers this last week.  Yes, three.  Also, finding some old co-workers on Facebook, quite a few people were able to hold on to their jobs during this year’s economic downturn.  And, yes, I have been working all this year too, albeit at Mexican wages.

In addition, another buddy of mine is now in a business with a partner working on art, and is earning real money again.

The only thing stopping me from looking for work north of the border again is the long process I will have to go through to give my fiancée a spousal visa after we get married January.

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miércoles, diciembre 16, 2009

Shooting Party "I Go to Pieces"

Categoría: Música

Last night, I had a dream about a song I purchased in the late 1980s, “I Go to Pieces” by a band called Shooting Party.  Curious about the song when I woke up, I did a Google search, and after a page full of links (half of which are fake) to illegal downloads of their music, I found an interview with one of the members of this short-lived band here:

http://chartrigger.blogspot.com/2009/08/chart-rigger-archives-interview-with.html

(Actual link is a redirect to the above location on my page because, for no good reason, MySpace blacklists this link)

They actually worked with some of the same people who produced Dead or Alive and were in contact with some very famous people (such as Rick Astley) while they were touring, recording, and promoting their music.

Nice to see the story behind some music I bought many moons ago and enjoyed greatly.

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jueves, diciembre 10, 2009

Annoying people

Categoría: Amigos

People I find annoying:

* The “I’m more interested in your membership with such-and-such a group than in you” person.  Churches and 12-step rooms are full of people like this; people who only care if you go to their 12-step meetings/church services and don’t interact with you as a person but only as a potential member of whatever organization they have decided to be a part of.

* The “the world sucks and I’m going to complain loudly about it” person.  Blogs and internet discussion boards of full of people like this; people who talk about how big government is out to get you; people who talk about how the world is going to end soon, how the sky is falling, how crime is going up, the government is taking away all of our liberties, etc. etc. etc.

* The “This nutty fringe theory is really true” person.  Blogs are full of people like this; the internet has discussion boards dedicated to various nutty fringe theories.  Examples include people who really think Linux is a better end-user desktop system than Windows, people who really think you can hear the difference between hi-resolution audio formats like stereo SACDs and normal CDs, people who think Obama doesn’t have a legal birth certificate, people who think 9/11 was faked by the US government, global warming deniers, young earth creationists, etc.

* The “I’m too cool to hang out with you” person.  The town I live in in Mexico is full of people like this.  Bottom line: If you’re not interested in a friendship with me, I’m not interested in a friendship with you.

* The perpetual flaker.  My fiancée has someone in her life like this.  This is someone who, when you make plans to hang out with them, they always cancel the plans at the last minute for some trivial reason, or just do not show up.  This is someone who says they will hang out with you, but never does.  This is often times someone who only makes time to hang out with you when they feel lonely and no one else is around.  If someone doesn’t value me highly enough to want to hang out with me whenever, I don’t have time to be their friend.

* The gold digger.  Or, in the case of a man, the womanizer.  This person is only interested in what they can get from you (money, you working for them for free, you doing a big favor for them, sex, whatever) and not interested in you as a person.  The internet form of this is the freetard; someone who is only interested in my implementing a feature they want in my program for their benefit for fun and for free.

* The control freak.  Wikipedia is full of these.  These are people who want to have things their way, and will do everything they can to control something, such as what people eat for dinner, the contents of a Wikipedia article, etc.  If you don’t do what they want, they become angry and confrontational until you capitulate; if they don’t “win”, they will leave and find another place to impose their will.

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martes, noviembre 17, 2009

The world will not end in 2012

Categoría: Noticias y política

Back when I was a kid, my grandmother used to scare me out of my gourd by telling me that the world would end in 1981.  She explained to me that some ancient prophet who was able to predict other events saw the end of the world—she explained that an alignment of the planets would destroy Earth.

I remember not being able to sleep at night because I was terrified that the world would end soon.

Well, 1981 came and pass and the Earth survived just fine.

In history, people have found time and time again prophesies that were supposed to predict the end of the Earth.  Just look up “1844” sometime.  All of these prophesies have one thing in common: They were wrong.

So now, as part of a marketing campaign for a movie of dubious quality, there are people saying the world will end in 2012.  Something to do with the ancient Mayan calendar which is supposed to end (it doesn’t but that’s another story).

Like all other predictions of the end of the world, this one will be quickly forgotten come early 2013.  Only to be replaced by yet another prediction of the end of everything.

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miércoles, octubre 28, 2009

Obama conspiracy theories debunked

Categoría: Noticias y política

I found a really good site debunking the conspiracy theories about Obama, most notably that he isn't a natural-born US citizen:

http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/

An excellent site to read; this person deals with the ill-formed and completely lack of rational thinking done by the outspoken Birther group.  If you don't think Obama was born in Hawaii, please do yourself a favor and have a psychiatric evaluation to see what kind of mental illness you have.

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