Chris Brentano

walking to good neighbor pizza with the girls.

Mar 3rd

It’s a day worthy of flip-flops.

Mar 3rd

Interesting that LiveJournal, but not Vox, was nominated in the Webware awards’...

Mar 2nd

After switching to Butler (and writing a couple of AppleScripts for missing functionality) I...

Mar 2nd

Doing some housekeeping on a server at work. Rotating and compressing logs.

Mar 1st

Wish I had some Diet Mtn Dew right about now. To use a tired metaphor: it’s like crack.

Mar 1st

Can’t remember the last time I sat outside and stared at the sky, almost like meditating,...

Mar 1st

chunnel is back up. but hey, the weather outside isn’t bad, and it’s a short walk.

Mar 1st

i mean, @nateb72. stupid autocorrect.

Mar 1st

iLO, don’t fail me now. Why must you suddenly stop responding?

Mar 1st

headed to the Colo, tunnel is down again. i blame naten72

Mar 1st

tftp to ze rescue!

Mar 1st

Wow, that was a crazy episode of Lost.

Feb 29th

I friggin love EyeTV - watching tonight’s rec’d Lost episode on my MacBook while Eloise...

Feb 29th

Damnit, going to miss the BarCamp meetup yet again. Eloise had a small injury and I gotta go and...

Feb 29th

T-Mobile can piss off with telling me to ‘Upgrade my phone’ for full retail price.

Feb 28th

Holy crap. Logged in to Facebook for the first time in ages, and have like 18 pages of stupid...

Feb 28th

I failed the U.S. Citizenship test on Facebook. Uh oh.

Feb 28th

Mmmmm ice cream.

Feb 28th

And yes, that was “drunkness” not the proper “drunkenness”. Sigh.

Feb 28th

phone battery low, ipod battery low, and my battery low. it was a good day.

Feb 28th

Jim warned us not to sing the Joleine song. Now we all want to sing the Joleine song though. Damn.

Feb 28th

Gonna miss Lunch 2.0, have too much to do!

Feb 28th

Guilty Pleasure: Diet Mtn Dew Code Red.

Feb 28th

I <3 Kickstart. RedHat rules. All you haters drool.

Feb 28th

Listening to Dogdaze, the broken beat moniker of 2562/a made up sound. Really good....

Feb 27th

Ugh, one of my neighbors put up 6’ cyclone fence. What an eyesore.

Feb 27th

The sky looks beautiful this morning.

Feb 27th

FriendFeed? I wan’t BaconFeed.

Feb 27th

Whoops, rogue apostrophe slipped in there.

Feb 27th

Hmm, reconsidering Postfix for qmail.

Feb 26th

Installing Postfix and Dovecot on my new pet domain, frolickinggoat.com

Feb 26th

Bruce Davison (http://snurl.com/20f1i) is in both the new Knight Rider and tonight’s...

Feb 26th

headed home after averting disaster at work.

Feb 26th

Why the hell would DHL deliver my shipment to the Post Office? That completely defeats the point of...

Feb 26th

Vimeo has an office in Portland, who knew.

Feb 26th

Well, maybe not.

Feb 26th

Their community directory is here in Portland, but it looks like that’s it.

Feb 26th

Great episode of Dirty Jobs on. Steel reclamation! Also, missing Hawaii. I want Mehana Red Ale! Or...

Feb 25th

Kegerator looking even more compelling: Lucky Lab has good prices on kegs.

Feb 25th

Spock says that my birthday (April 1st) is an invalid date. Who are the winners who developed this...

Feb 25th

After calculating my beer drinking cost for a month, I’m half-tempted to get a kegerator to...

Feb 25th

Fucking Nader.

Feb 24th

Thought I’d give Knight Rider another shot. The acting is *terrible*, and Kitt’s...

Feb 24th

The music is worse.

Feb 24th

The right earpiece of my headphones had developed some distortion, which was annoying, but then it...

Feb 24th

I’m in yur switchez settin yur snmp kumoonity stringz

Feb 23rd

Now I’m in yur Cacti addin yur devicez and kreatin yur graphz… or something

Feb 23rd

The clouds outside today look nice and fluffy across the blue sky.

Feb 23rd

I think I might work from the break room all the time. It’s got a ton of natural light, comfy...

Feb 23rd

Getting a handle on the switch configuration situation.

Feb 23rd

My copy of SKULL06 and T-shirt arrived, yay!

Feb 23rd

Damnit. It’s super annoying when things like, network switches, seem randomly configured and...

Feb 23rd

Some guy who I think is a contractor asked if I worked here or was a janitor. Yeah, dude, I’m...

Feb 22nd

Working from the Jive breakroom today. There are literally 5 other people here. Everyone else is up...

Feb 22nd

Sad that the Emacs-style keybindings in Mac OS X (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-E) dont work in form fields on...

Feb 22nd

Caught up on past Lost episodes I had recorded. Interesting season so far.

Feb 22nd

Enjoying some babytime at work. Eloise seems to like the server room, probably because of all the...

Feb 22nd

Funny http://isyournewbicycle.com

Feb 21st

Wow. Safari 3, with one page open (Google Maps) is eating up 77% of my CPU. The street view overlay...

Feb 21st

Testing out Butler. So far not too shabby.

Feb 21st

EQ settings make so much more of a difference with good headphones.

Feb 21st

Took (or tried to) some pictures of the lunar eclipse. Very pretty.

Feb 21st

Just bought a pair of headphones that look like they’re a WWII throwaway, but sound great....

Feb 21st

Lessig is awesome, I hope he does run for Congress in California. http://lessig08.org

Feb 20th

This is hilarious, but probably because my wife and I have a 6 week old baby...

Feb 20th

Newspond is pretty, but not sure how well it stacks against Techmeme.

Feb 20th

Wow, Discovery.com’s forums totally suck! They should run Clearspace X, I think it’d be...

Feb 20th

Hmm http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/dirtyjobs.html will not load in Safari 3 or Firefox...

Feb 20th

Wow I am tired this evening. Excited about Obama’s wins today. Watching funny Nova special on...

Feb 20th

network maintenance successful, on my way home.

Feb 20th

hate it when i get out the door at the wrong time and have to wait 20 minutes for the bus.

Feb 19th

No longer: Funny Colbert-inspired Reddit ad on...

Feb 19th

Eloise’s hair is all chick fuzzy after her bath, and wtf is with over-th-head outfits? Have...

Feb 19th

Ran after what I thought was the 9, but it was the 4.

Feb 19th

A photo I took in Chicago of the Michigan Ave Bridge two years ago got selected for inclusion on...

Feb 19th

Er, heed @jimgoings’s advice - When people ‘bump’ something to get a response my...

Feb 19th

New logo: image/jpeg

Feb 19th

New Jive logo! http://snurl.com/1zvxl

Feb 19th

Ikea Virtual Store with Traffic View: Obviously I have too...

Feb 18th

mmm, the sun sure feels nice.

Feb 18th

It seems like Michael Arrington likes to go off on people lately. At least he could do it on a...

Feb 18th

Pimping myself out yet again: February DJ Mix http://tinyurl.com/2ofe4w (it’s good!)

Feb 18th

2nd attempt at a Lego flash drive is a failure. Brick became too brittle. But I did fit the 4GB...

Feb 18th

I love the Something Different show on KMHD on Sundays, http://www.somethingdifferent.fm - always...

Feb 18th

Obligatory blog post: Lego USB flash drive http://tinyurl.com/2s5mzg

Feb 18th

I’m totally making a second Lego flash drive - just pulled apart my 4GB one and it’s a...

Feb 18th

The new Knight Rider takes place in an alternate reality where everyone drives a Ford, and...

Feb 18th

Ingredients: Take one 4x2 block and one 4x2 flat piece, add...

Feb 18th

Gutted: I politely tore out the innards of this block with...

Feb 18th

Spacious and ready to move in: From another angle

Feb 18th

2GB of POWAH: My encrypted 2GB drive, courtesy of my...

Feb 18th

Fits like a glove: I did have to thin the walls of the block...

Feb 18th

Add a floor, and call it a house: With the bottom flat piece...

Feb 18th

For heavy lids: Of course, I needed a corresponding piece to...

Feb 18th

Peanut Butter + Jelly: Almost looks like regular old lego...

Feb 18th

All done.: With the flat piece covering both blocks, this...

Feb 18th

Rudolph, with your nose so bright…: I didn’t...

Feb 18th

Now I know where Designers Republic got their inspiration for the old breakbeat.co.uk design....

Feb 18th

Just finished retro-fitting my 2GB flash drive into a Lego piece. Jimbo will be proud.

Feb 18th

What does daddy do when mommy and baby go out for an hour? Why, mix some records of course!...

Feb 18th

Playing some reggae for Eloise

Feb 17th

Crap, now I have to remember how to navigate Logic’s ‘Environment’ so that I can...

Feb 17th

Got sushi with Martha at Hama Sushi. I think it’s my new fav. So good. Then gelato. So full.

Feb 17th

Every application today requires a force quit. wtf.

Feb 17th

Hmm, Smugmug looks more appealing than Picasa Web Albums.

Feb 16th

Checking out Picasa Web Albums. I worry that Flickr will suffer under MSFT rule. Makes me a little...

Feb 16th

Got my first game from GameFly today, Orange Box. Excited to play Portal....

Feb 16th

On my way home, listening to Burial. Long week.

Feb 16th

Creating 9 virtual ethernet interfaces for 9 virtual machines. Hmm.

Feb 16th

Can anyone recommend a good bluetooth keyboard (besides the Apple one)?

Feb 16th

Bought Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave KB + Mice for the conference rooms, only to find that they...

Feb 16th

Why I love working at Jive: video job reqs! http://blip.tv/file/671732 - that’s forward...

Feb 16th

OMG http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=76059 ftw

Feb 15th

Twitter, you’re my favorite stream of collective consciousness.

Feb 15th

Ugh, past my bedtime. Time to go to sleep.

Feb 15th

Just signed up for Slicehost. If this works out, I might migrate all my sites from DreamHost. That...

Feb 15th

Doh, power blip, PVR reboot…

Feb 15th

Oh no, does Twitter face an exodus of users to Pownce, or will many people just have an account on...

Feb 15th

Installing CentOS 5.1 via PXE on a VM, hosted on a machine that a half-hour ago I installed CentOS...

Feb 14th

From the sound of the tweets, I surmise that there’s a Legion of Tech meeting going on at eSan...

Feb 13th

Our new monitoring alert sound http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html

Feb 12th

I can see the Nagios alerts at TwitterHQ going off right… about… now.

Feb 12th

Debugging SNMP stuffs. Eloise and Martha are peacefully asleep.

Feb 12th

I love Firefox 3, but I hate the nanny-nag screens for invalid certs and editing the config.

Feb 12th

could really go for a Coke right now

Feb 11th

Martha’s been blogging up a storm, and her brother Dan even did duty as a guest blogger today...

Feb 10th

Caving in and signing up for GameFly

Feb 10th

New dishwasher delivered! Can’t wait to install it tomorrow. Can’t wait for dishes that...

Feb 10th

Wow, http://howcast.com is awesome.

Feb 9th

Thinking about going to BeaverBarCamp on March 1st just because it sounds fun.

Feb 9th

Creating encrypted volumes on all my removable drives/flash drives that I use for work. TrueCrypt...

Feb 9th

seriously, the next release by Perevelist and Appleblim on Skull Disco is so good. Paging @les.

Feb 9th

All over a downed server at work, while at home wearing a baby, oh yeah! That’s either...

Feb 8th

Spoke too soon, she’s awake and hungry.

Feb 8th

Got Eloise to sleep, catching up on a Clearspace thread at work on politics (oh noes) and enjoying a...

Feb 8th

Perevelist Appleblim = Crazy Delicious

Feb 8th

there should have been a + in there.

Feb 8th

Apple IIc unboxing http://tinyurl.com/2fszgs

Feb 7th

Happy 7th Birthday Jive!

Feb 7th

Excellent analysis of recent Yahoo memo by Gruber http://tinyurl.com/39pmyf

Feb 7th

Heading home. Listening to Ben UFO’s previous show from SubFM.

Feb 7th

Oy, very tired from staying up late with Eloise. But it was worth it to give Martha a few good hours...

Feb 6th

Bridge goes up, bridge goes down.

Feb 6th

I love you Portland.

Feb 6th

Ignite Portland 2 rocked. Must upload photos.

Feb 6th

Break time, #ip2 so far is kicking ass!

Feb 6th

Sitting next to very nice folks.

Feb 6th

Made it in! Good luck @verso, and everyone else. Place is packed.

Feb 6th

Yep there’s a line, around the block!

Feb 6th

Ugh traffic on hawthorne

Feb 6th

Getting close.

Feb 6th

Or not.

Feb 6th

In we go!

Feb 6th

I guess I could say I’m an event sponsor, but that’s only because of my employer....

Feb 6th

Getting all excited about #ip2 and it’s still hours away. Must focus.

Feb 6th

Ignite Portland RSVPs have topped 600! http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/390164/

Feb 6th

“Apparently Raven Zachary is in fact a man.” I LOLed.

Feb 5th

Nice work @ravenzachary!

Feb 5th

Super cute episode of Nature on OPB on Elephants.

Feb 4th

Folks at work (who I’ve never met) have added me as a connection on LinkedIn. It’s a...

Feb 4th

Out in 9 days: http://www.ghostly.com/1.0/ghostly/gi63.shtml (Track #2 is all I want though.)

Feb 4th

Is it just me, or is the game boring? Too bad I don’t enjoy FB normally. About to switch back...

Feb 4th

This is funny, http://www.villagesmthood.us is filled with these little snarky opinions hidden until...

Feb 2nd

The snow is really beautiful. Shame that it won’t last. Maybe I should move to Rhododendron or...

Feb 2nd

Snow in NE! #pdxtst

Feb 2nd

Radio Shack must be happy, selling AC adapters to Serato Scratch Live owners all over the place. Why...

Feb 2nd

Dishwasher ordered, now tackling an IPB 2.x -> phpBB 2 -> phpBB 3 migration. Ugh.

Feb 2nd

Yacrosoft, or Microhoo? http://www.flickr.com/photos/robsv/2235056485/ - funny image.

Feb 2nd

Or maybe I mean the brink of insanity. Dunno, too frazzled.

Feb 2nd

Finally put Eloise to sleep, was on the brink of sanity there for a little while.

Feb 2nd

Must close Twitterrific, too distracting today.

Feb 2nd

Things that the Police don’t need to waste time on include: Silly Artwork...

Feb 1st

For teh lulz http://failblog.wordpress.com

Feb 1st

Oh no, Yahoo, don’t do it! Say no to the evil empire!

Feb 1st