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October 28th, 2003

Tanglewood 2002

I put our Tanglewood 2002 movie (4.4mb) on the site. Hope you like the soundtrack!

Update: in response to Will’s comment, let me explain what this movie is. Tanglewood is a large private park just west of Winston-Salem. For the last who knows how long, they have put on a Christmas lights show. Each year it’s gotten larger. We took these pictures through Lauren’s digital camera, which can make movies of up to 15 seconds. This movie was made using iMovie. Most of the images you see in this movie are three stories high; some are bigger. Occasionally, you can see car brake lights at the bottom center of the image (for scale).

October 28th, 2003

200,000 killed in Philippines; what’s up in Iraq

Yahoo! article about children, etc. killed in Philippines under George Bush, Sr.. Via LaughingMeme, which suggests that George Bush, Jr. might use Philippines-style killing as a model.

October 28th, 2003

Syslog, Logwatch, and Perl

So I got to use logwatch today at work, in a very nitty-gritty way: I added an option ‘conf’ which lets you change the default configuration file. Logwatch is written in Perl.

This investigation and activity led me to consider writing my own log analysis program. Logwatch is very flexible, but it is a low level tool that is basically a glorified shell script. I would like to write my own, “Bump”, so that you could say “… run bump on a log …”

Seriously, though, if I get some time I am going to write my own analysis tool.

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