My girlfriend and I bought some cheap vodka and a pound of extract-grade vanilla beans.
We (meaning mostly she) split the beans and shoved them into the bottle.
About 2 months from now, we should have some high quality extract at a fraction of the price!
Also, vanilla beans + milk = ICE CREAM tasting milk.

I shed my face cocoon, and emerged a beautiful butterfly.

It's funny to think about. When I was a kid, I knew exactly what I wanted. Books, games, clothes, I knew which ones I wanted and would compile lists for my parents that contained probably 20 items or more. While I never really felt bad about not getting some of them (20 items is a lot), I've found that as I get older, I can't do that anymore. For Christmas this year, I could barely even think of 3 things I wanted. Granted, they were more expensive items, but even coming up with those three took quite a long time. For my birthday, I can't even think of one item. I'm caught between wanting a new gaming pc, or a new phone, or a new server, but that's all I have. I no longer wonder why adults give each other clothing and socks. If I can't think of anything, what could my parents think of?

Today I would like to talk about what unites humanity. It's not our genes, our values, nor even our desires. It's stupidity.

So I decided I'd go into the #webos-internals channel to talk about how to do services for the Pre. Along the way, I got my app JSTop published to the Preware list. All in about 3 hours. Took me a few weeks to get into the official App Catalog! I plan on setting up something to allow for comments/suggestions for JSTop, which will probably go into affect soon. Special thanks to rwhitby, oilsworkn, and everyone in the #webos-internals channel!

Decided to actually get around to submitting Do I Need to the App Catalog today. Hopefully it will pass!

Anyway, they need an "offical" page for the app, so I made this one. Enjoy!

(Leave a comment if you really need support on Do I Need. I'll opensource the code as soon as my teammates and I actually sit down and do it).

UPDATE: I'm in the App Catalog! Download Do I Need today!

So I forgot the password to my online banking website. It happens, and I know it's my fault. However, the process to change my password is bizarre and ludicrous. Either, I can input my checking account number, debit card number, last 4 of my social security, AND last 4 of my phone number, or I can send my full social security # in plain text, along with my Mother's middle name, my home phone number as a child, AND my favorite type of music in blurred text (the irony is amazing). The funny part is that I've never entered in any form anywhere at this bank what my favorite music is. How the hell is that a valid question to ask when the answer is unspecified? You'd think this would be a simple process, where I could enter my social in blurred text as well as questions I've picked and know the answers to. What a great world that would be.

Through many hours of blood and tears, I have found how to get memory usage of processes in WebOs.

palm://com.palm.lunastats/getStats{}.

This was necessary for my CS 242 final project: PreTop, a memory monitor and process controller for the Palm Pre.

Had to delve into the Palm WebOS Resource Monitor (WORM) that ships with the SDK. Disassembled many java classes until I found the string sent to the Luna process manager to return stats.

Hot spares are one of the greatest friends of any sysadmin. They let me sleep at night knowing that if a harddrive explodes in a RAID array, nothing too bad will happen. The hot spare will take over for the failed drive and the array will not degrade. Then I can come in the next day, swap out the dead drive, and watch the hot spare copy over to the new drive. Use them, love them, get some sleep.