Monday, March 20th, 2023 - TrickJarrett.com: Semper Ad Meliora

Monday morning rolling start

Overall we kept it a fairly quiet weekend. Friday night was spent hanging out with friends, but after that Katie's cold reared up and so it was a fairly chill weekend. Saturday we were supposed to go to a Sounders game (which they ended up drawing) but with Katie not feeling well we decided to stay home. Sunday we mainly binged ABC's Will Trent, which features a dyslexic detective and I gave Elwood a much needed bath.

Now it's back to work for another week. This Monday morning is serenaded by the best of Led Zeppelin after I had Immigrant Song in my head.

3/20/2023 9:17 am |

| Tags: life, musing, monday

20 Years Since the US Invaded Iraq

I was wondering why my RSS feed was besieged by Iraq retrospectives and I finally learned it was because today is the 20th anniversary of the invasion.

We were sold lies in the name of national security. We toppled a tyrant under these falsehoods. And it was only the beginning of our prolonged presence in the middle east to secure our access to oil and in the name of freedom.

3/20/2023 10:27 am |

| Tags: us military, iraq, war on terror, saddam hussein

Ken Thompson on his music box project

Ken Thompson is one of the creators of Unix and here he is giving a talk about a longterm project of his for making a music machine. It's a good journey through the evolution of technology through this ongoing project.

I had, back in college, the vision for a similar project which I had called 'Ainur' after the singing demigods of Tolkien mythology. At the time, the idea was a portable computer which I could take to parties or conventions and it would run a wifi mp3 streaming service entirely autonomously, and also be available as a file sharing FTP server. It's still an idea I have, and would probably be Raspberry Pi built these days - but in the era of music streaming, it feels like a less and less needed project.

3/20/2023 1:17 pm |

| Tags: unix, music, technology