Tyler Oderkirk's Blog

I use pwsafe to store passwords on Ubuntu. It’s a *nix command line port of Counterpane’s Password Safe which uses twofish to store passwords in a database file. You can find it in the Ubuntu universe repository.
If someone somehow managed to get ahold of my shell’s history file, they’d get a lot of juicy info [...]

Have you ever seen someone in a movie and thought to yourself “Hey, weren’t they in movie Y too?”
This happened to me last night when I was watching ”Casino”. The parking lot attendant from a certain scene looked just like a character from ”Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”.
To the *nix shell, Robin!</Bruce Wayne Voice>
I [...]

I just got back from a long weekend which included seeing Daft Punk at Coney Island and camping with my Dad and Grandpa in Old Forge in the Adirondacks.
On Thursday at Noon I jumped on a Jet Blue flight bound for JFK. One hour and one hundred dollars later I was waiting at JFK for [...]

While perusing some Python documentation, I came across some example text: “foo, bar, bletch”. Catchy. Maybe even better than “foo, bar, baz”.
Turns out that there’s an entire Wikipedia article on the subject. Curious what other people have used, I consulted Google Sets and asked for a small set. Click “enlarge set” for some outstanding metasyntactic [...]