Pretty amusing, to stumble across a missive I dispatched four years ago, and find that it had actually been published.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/writers/john_donovan/06/10/erstad.estrada/1.html
Chris Lamb shows how to give cp a progress bar like wget: [link]
This might seem like some very minor hackery, and it is. But of such things are real advances made, eh?
This guy has brightened every single working day of the rest of my life. Thanks, Chris.
Joomla! Cash is now available on Amazon.com, and I’m soon to receive my personal copies of the book. I’m pretty excited to finally be seeing the fruits of a long and difficult labor. Or, you can buy it directly from Packt Publishing. The Joomla! project receives 5% of proceeds from your purchase of the book, and it’s available in traditional dead-tree or e-book formats.
Other cool places I’ve found my book: Bookpool, Compman.co.uk, Comcol.nl, and the fine lads at Vulture Central are pushing my pages as well!
I’m pleased to announce that my long gestating book on adapting Joomla to business needs will be publishing on October 25th, 2007. “Joomla! Cash” will give the reader a quick read on how to rapidly establish a money-making Joomla! website, and how to adapt this powerful CMS to a variety of other business uses. [pre-order]
“I did not lose my book. I DID NOT lose my book”.
That was me, as I realized that my attempt to install Gentoo Linux on a new partition had resulted in the NTFS partition on the same drive being deleted.
Thank God for Data Recovery software. I managed to pull my book back from the abyss. Lost a lot of other, less important, but still annoying-to-replace stuff, though.
This is what I get for being lax about keeping my personal files backed up. A near-disaster. In other news, I’m nearly done with my draft revisions. 
“In an oppressive political system. Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.” –George Orwell
In the cognitive cesspool called MySpace, the latest big trend has been for political campaigns to establish their online presences there in hopes of reaching the youth vote.
And you can see this from their perspective: with campaigns becoming increasingly costly, any platform that gives you the ability to potentially reach nearly a third of the US population is compelling on the basis of sheer numbers alone.
So, I’ve been forced to break in yet another new keyboard.
And this new keyboard, to put it politely, sucks.
The keys are too stiff, for one thing. But that’s not what really bothers me. What really bothers me is that the designers made the [Backspace] key very, very small.
Who would design a keyboard with a miniscule backspace key?
Communists. That’s who.
I can envision the design team’s roundtables:
“Each key should share an equal amount of space. Except the enter key, which we’ll make TWICE the normal size because it’s more equal than others.”
Typists of the world, Unite! Unite against the bourgeois exploitation of the working bloggers, and the tyranny of tiny keys!
