Tyler Oderkirk's Blog

Here are some pics from a recent hike I took in Bristol near Stid Hill.  Thanks to Paula for giving me some route advice. I took a Nokia N770 and GPS reciever with me and logged my return trip. Be sure to view the “Terrain” and “Hybrid” map types. Big kudos to John Costigan for developing [...]

Did you know that you can use an existing non-privileged instance of Emacs to open files as root? Yep, Emacs includes a module called TRAMP which can use sudo to read and write files. As is usually the case, I had to work sweat a little to make it work. My problem was that my [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My 61″ 2004 Fuji Ace: 28lbs. I’m usually hauling a fat 3′ Kryptonite New York Chain with me too. It weighs 7lbs (you expected something less from a security fundamentalist? `;]`) A Specialized Tarmac SL2: 15.8lbs – the same as roughly two gallons of milk. This is one of the bikes that’ll appear in the [...]

I capitalized on Rochester’s first nice Saturday in ~7 months by taking a jog up to Cobbs Hill Park. After taking a lap around the reservoir, I stopped at the pump pump house steps (pictured) to sit for a while in the sun. Some groovy flute music was floating out from inside the building. It [...]

A few years ago at RIT I went dub crazy and spent a few weeks collecting as much as I could from streaming radio shows and the internet in general. While trying to track down some High Tone tracks, I found Reggae Club. Reggae Club was a radio show broadcast on Radio Malta from 1989 [...]

What? Pelekus is a Greasemonkey User Script I wrote that can help you catch unauthorized access to your web accounts. Why? You may have noticed that some websites say something like “You last logged in at 9:09pm on 2/1/07″ when you log on? If you’re like me, you’ve learned to ignore this message cause it’s pretty [...]

I spent New Years Eve in Toronto with Dan, Adam, Jeff, and John. It was John’s idea originally – he’s been in club withdrawal since coming back from England a few weeks ago. I spent Saturday walking around the city – Kensington Market, Queen St, a few cafes and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Most [...]