Here's a set of photos I took at the Computer History Museum. If you like switches and indicator lamps you will love these pics. Some samples:

Well it looks like Advogato doesn't like phpwiki rss feeds. I was hoping to publish my phpwiki changes for www.hollenback.net in my Advogato blog but no luck. Oh well guess I'm not surprised, given the very buggy state of phpwiki.

Unfortunately I have something like 7 years worth of data in my phpwiki so I'm stuck with it. If only I knew more php I could contribute fixes...

Today I made citron-infused vokda:

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Which, according to these guys, is delicious. I saw one of these bizarre fruits at the Ferry Building farmers Market in San Francisco and I just couldn't resist buying one to play with.

The citron (also known as buddha's hand) is apparently useless for anything except flavoring stuff and smelling really awesome. There's no actual fruit inside the thing but the smell of the rind is absolutely incredible. My whole apartment is full of the smell after I cut it up. I still half a hand left so I have to decide if I am going to infuse another bottle of vodka or make some sort of tea or what.

I'd like to share a bit of bash script that I wrote yesterday that I am both very proud of and very disturbed by:

DfLine=$(df -h /misc/backup | tail -1)
# convert DfLine into a bash array...
DfLine=(${DfLine// / })
echo -n ${DfLine[3]}
echo " free space remaining on /misc/backup"

So basically I did a perl split on whitespace and stuffed the results into an array. Actually I'm think that's a split on " *", not whitespace as I suspect it wouldn't work on tabs. I didn't test that though.

Also I think it should be possible to do the command substitution and the expansion of $DfLine in one go but all the $({$({${{ started to make my head hurt so I stopped there.

Inspiration from this unix.com page.

This is probably a pretty good indication that it's time to re-write the script in perl.