Filial devotion, or willing endorsement of butchery?
Filed under: Quotes
“He talked to us and told us about this name that he is being called. We understand that it is part of his job and there’s nothing personal about that… that means my dad is really working. Every time he’s called a ‘butcher’ we are actually proud.”
Macy Palparan, Retired Gen. Jovito Palparan’s daughter: Reacting to accusations that her father is a berdugo, or butcher.
DesktopBSD 1.0 reviewed on NewsForge
Filed under: BSD
Six months late, but hey, still. For all of the “easy-to-install, easy-to-use BSD” advocates out there, the review will probably help your cause. Me, I’d like to stay pat on my stand about all this: This is not the way to introduce people to the BSDs. The result will be catastrophic. We just have to observe the current Linux userbase to bear this out.
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OpenBSD: Making “pretty” WordPress Permalinks work
Filed under: BSD
The default permalink for WordPress shows a pathetically uninformative URL on users’ address bars like so: http://www.example.com/?p=N where N is the post’s number. The option to change this default format to other, more informative, and to me at least, “prettier” varieties is available via WordPress’ Dashboard, but if you’re running your blog on an OpenBSD server, using the builtin Apache webserver and its default chrooted settings, the process will not be a straightforward point-and-click affair. Why?
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People who should be shot. In the head. Twice.
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Filipinos who say “My bad.”
Listen. WALA SA KULTURA, you dumbfuck. So you want to be Will Smith? Chris Rock? Dave Chappell? Well guess what? “Not gonna happen.” Deal with it.
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Been in “Draft” mood for a while now
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Funk? Rut? Bed Weather? Better stuff on the idiot box? Bottomline, I can’t commit the following to anything coherent. What to do? Well, write a post about your drafts, what else? I’m clever. And shit.
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His own best fan
Filed under: Quotes
Everybody thinks its cool to say ‘I hate watching myself onscreen.’ Well, that’s bullshit. We’re in a narcissistic business. Everybody likes watching themselves.”
Samuel L Jackson: On the various lies that showbiz people throw around.
TIME, 4 Sept, 2006
“Crikey!”: Steve Irwin killed by a stingray?
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I have to confess I never really understood what he did, and why he obviously _enjoyed_ doing what he did. Another would be that guy on Discov who creeps up on rattlesnakes and vipers, hooks them with this weird tool, then goes merrily on with a photoshoot starring the probably confused as hell snake. I don’t get them (WHY THE HELL DO THAT, EVEN FOR THE MONEY?) but one thing’s for sure, they _were_ entertaining.
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