Sunday, August 18, 2002

I'm a little surprised that no warblogger has yet coined the term blogshevik to redbait the vast left-wing conspiracy in greater blogistan. At least, the Goog has never heard of it: Did you mean:bolshevik  Your search - blogshevik - did not match any documents. No pages were found containing "blogshevik". Speaking of blogistan, I'm also somewhat surprised that old-time hackers didn't prefer blogdom into usage. There are many precedents in the Jargon File. [Radio Free Blogistan] Oooh...blogshevik. I like it. I need to use that - I am a blogshevik, and I'm proud of it. Thanks, xian. =)

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Czechs told to avoid weak buildings [BBC World] I'm sure there's been more useless advice, but there's something a little silly about that.
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I think I may have fixed the memory problem I was having with Radio - I deleted a couple files and suddenly, everything's working and it's not swallowing a meg of memory every 2.5 minutes...gotta give it a little longer, to be sure.
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Alright -trying again to figure out and kill this annoying Radio memory problem. When I woke up this morning, Radio had snagged 120+mb of physical memory and 250+mb of virtual memory, in about 14 hours of runtime. At Lawrence Lee's suggestion, I disabled all the tools I wasn't using (in other words, all but myPictures and Mark Paschal's excellent Kit, without which I'd be unable to get at news that had been aggregated overnight. I'm also pretty sure that those tools would not have caused the memory problem - myPictures has been running since I installed Radio, and Kit doesn't seem to do anything except when I call it. However, I had just recently installed Dave Winer's weblogNeighborhood, which seems a likely culprit. We'll see - as of now, a good fifteen minutes after restarting Radio, I'm at 25mb physical memory and nealry 18mb of virtual memory. I've got to remember to check this every hour or so...

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Heat Chills Twins [Boston Globe] This is just a game recap of the Red Sox/Twins game from last night, but it stands out to me as a particularly well-written recap. And it's got two great lines - one of them a quote from Johnny Pesky, 82-year old ex-Red Sox player, who still lives in the Boston area, spends spring training with the team, is at most home games, and travels with the team periodically. The quote is about a reliever, Alan Embree, but that doesn't matter... ''That's the way they used to throw it in my day,'' Pesky said. ''Heat. That was like [expletive] Radatz.'' What makes that quote great is the image of this still spry 82 year old man saying 'That was like fucking Radataz.' I love it. The other line is by the writer of the article, Gordon Edes, about Twins first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, who made a strange error - throwing the ball into his glove but missing, ending up with an error: "Mientkiewicz has always been able to make the tough plays, including learning how to spell his last name by the first grade." I just thought that was wittier than you normally see in game recaps. =)

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NBA's 50 Greatest Players & Top Ten Coaches [FARK] This is pretty old - the list is from '96. But whenever I see it, it reminds me how lucky I was to be growing up in Boston in the '80s. I was spoiled for basketball, more so than anywhere else in the country for the last thirty years. No team has had an assembly of talent like the mid-'80s Celtics since the Celtics and Lakers of the late '60s...just look at the list and pick out the Celtics. Yeah, there's a lot of them. But in the '85-'86 season, the Celtics had most likely the greatest front line in the history of basketball - the starters (Bird, Parish, McHale) were all in the Top 50, as was the sixth man (Bill Walton). We will never see four players that good playing on the same team ever again...I'm just glad I got to watch them.

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