Our bathroom renos are progressing.
Over the weekend, Tracy’s dad and I got the molding in, and put the washer/dryer back into the laundry room. We’ve got space in the living room again!
This coming weekend, the plumber is coming by to install the sink and toilet, and tap into the water lines. A big job, and we wanted a professional to do it.
After that, it’s all nitpicky stuff, hanging the towel racks and cabinets, touching up the paint.
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Congrats to Sebastian Trueg and his team:
I am proud to announce the release of K3b 1.0.
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Nesting of code blocks exceeds the limit of 128 nesting levels. Simplify nesting.
It’s not nested you stupid compiler! It’s just a list of if - else if statements. Ah well.
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BP answers the question on how you can serve files through S3 initially to jumpstart the swarm, but avoid paying massive bandwidth bills.
BP’s Weblog: Fun with torrents, and Amazon S3
And, that’s what I did. I downloaded the original file, uploaded it to a bucket I have on S3. Then, I copied the generated S3 .torrent to my own server, and told the Nerd Vittles folks where to find it. Meanwhile, I had copied the original file up to my hosted server, and started up a seed there, as well (this saved me having to pay for an extra download from S3).
The advice at the end of the post tells you how to do it. Great idea!
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This was one of my problems with using S3 for hosting purposes, is that I couldn’t find a way to track per key (file). Turns out it’s a beta feature right now. I doubt that it will be taken away though.
Server Access Logging Overview
An Amazon S3 bucket can be configured to create access log records for the requests made against it. An access log record contains details about the request such as the request type, the resource the request worked worked with, and the time and date that the request was processed. Server access logs are useful for many applications, because they give bucket owners insight into the nature of requests made by clients not under their control.
In the log you get the following data, amongst other things:
Perfect.
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Pitchfork: Air Announce North American Dates
Air have added a North American leg to their previously reported European tour and one-off show with Phoenix at Versailles. The tour is in support of the duo’s new album, Pocket Symphony.The freshly minted dates begin April 21 in Vancouver, over a month after the European tour’s kickoff in Glasgow. Along the way, the French band will hit Coachella, unfortunately not on the same day as Jarvis Cocker, who sings on Pocket Symphony’s sublime “One Hell of a Party”.
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B.C.’s deadly Ripple Rock blown up - “On This Day” - CBC Archives
In the late 1700s, Captain George Vancouver called the channel at British Columbia’s Seymour Narrows, “one of the vilest stretches of water in the world.” Its deadliest feature: the twin peaks of Ripple Rock, lurking just below the surface of the swirling water. “Old Rip” had menaced shipping for centuries, sinking or damaging 119 vessels and claiming almost as many lives. But on April 5, 1958, the world’s largest non-nuclear peacetime explosion pulled Ripple Rock’s teeth forever.
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CBC Radio 3: Breaking New Sound is a great music streaming service featuring Canadian artists. I’ve been listening to them at work after finding them in the iTunes Radio section. Now I find they have a blog. Subscribed. 
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I learned something new today regarding the Earth’s plates, that water provides the lubrication for plate shifting.
LiveScience.com - Huge ‘Ocean’ Discovered Inside Earth
Water covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface and one of its many functions is to act like a lubricant for the movement of continental plates.“Look at our sister planet, Venus,” Wysession said. “It is very hot and dry inside Venus, and Venus has no plate tectonics. All the water probably boiled off, and without water, there are no plates. The system is locked up, like a rusty Tin Man with no oil.”
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