I think I’m supposed to be blogging about more Midwest Banjo Camp related things – but J.R. Jenks is doing this fine. Here’s a recording of some of the tree frogs in Olivet: olivet_mi-frogs-20080606.
Month: June 2008
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yeah, us long neck banjo players are a bad lot …

Still from 1964 NFB docudrama Nobody Waved Goodbye, as mentioned in a nostalgia piece in Spacing. -
perhaps the most sugar-coated admission of peak North Sea oil
The North Sea has almost as much oil left as has already been extracted, a BBC Scotland investigation has been told.
— BBC News, Oil reserves ‘will last decades’.
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I don’t know what it did, but I wish it hadn’t done it
Outlook has now decided that I need all my e-mail text in huge. I have no idea why.

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rsync to an NSLU2
My only real complaint with my Linksys NSLU2 is that it doesn’t have a very accurate clock. Tools like rsync expect identical timestamps, or flag source and destination files as different. This causes most of your files to be rewritten, even though the source and destination are in fact the same.
This fixes it:rsync --size-only -av src dest


