Since threebrothers.org has been down for a while, I missed some very important things. One month and one day ago, Jessica gave birth to Ezra Wray Ribera . I have a son! There are a bunch of pictures up on Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/bribera/tags/ezra . That is all....

I was excited to read this morning that the Court of Appeals has upheld an open-source copyright license . To quote Lawrence Lessig's summary: In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the CC licenses set conditions (rather than covenants) on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the con...

The gracious hosts of this server have recently upgraded to Verizon FiOS , which should have been a great boon to threebrothers.org; however, Verizon filters ports 80 and 25. This is why, dear reader, I have reconfigured my blog to live on port 8080. Apparently, these ports are only used for "business purposes",...

When I started at iLike in October, I chose a MacBook Pro as my development machine. After months of my attempting to adapt to OSX, that Macbook is now running Linux. Macs have always been lauded for their superior usability; while I can corroborate this sentiment with respect to Windows' UI , I consistently found OSX cloy...

A while ago, Grant supplied a nice shell hack for recursively grepping through a subversion enlistment while ignoring the .svn directory contents. This was the solution to a thread about counting the number of occurrences of a given word (HACK, in this case) within your project; the final response did this rather nicely. I...

Take a gander at Fixing seekdir() , an account of quashing a bug in the BSD directory libraries. This is a very interesting piece of UNIX history, and probably still exists in the most recent versions of Apple's OSX. My favorite part? =========================== 4.1 c.1 ======================================= /* Copyright...

I've been using Firefox Beta 3 whenever I can, and I've really enjoyed it. It has huge gains over Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer in the area of memory consumption, and that makes me really happy. Firefox 2.x was fun and all, but it didn't really shine over the 1.x series in the ways that I hoped it would. Combine that lac...