Battles With Boredom

Brookfield is Now Part of ECFiber

Last night, Brookfield, one of the three towns who have expressed an interest in ECFiber but not yet signed the agreement, did indeed sign on and is now a part of the initiative to bring fiber to every home and business in 21 (and counting) towns in east central Vermont.

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Unix Time Hits 1200000000 Today! Watch it happen!

Today, Unix and derivative operating systems all over the world will have their clocks reach 1200000000. This is the number of seconds which have elapsed since the “dawn of time” (in Unix terms, anyway), or 1970.

If you want to watch your clock flip, just issue this command

watch -n1 date +”%s”

PCLinuxOS Tops DistroWatch

I wonder if this has any bearing on reality, but over at Distrowatch, PCLinuxOS has unseated Ubuntu as the most popular Linux distro.

Soon I Will Be Invincible – Great Book

After finishing it, I highly recommend the book. The parallels between Grossman’s characters and DC Universe mainstays are obvious, but the differences are refreshing and humorous. The split perspectives, half of the story told by the villain, the other half by a hero, also adds an interesting element. If you like superheroes, you’ll like this book.