The title speaks for itself. If you have auto mounting shares in your /etc/fstab the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) daemon will cause some serious malfunction. Hell, I couldn’t even ssh to the box.

Now how silly a bug is that? This is precisely the reason why I bought a MacBook Pro. No idiotic problems like this to waste my precious time on. Doesn’t matter whether it’s any flavour of BSD, Linux or Windows. There will always, or at least for the next many years to come, be lots of these little annoying bugs here and there to spend time fixing. In OS X stuff just works and you can spend your time being productive.

Bug discussion here.

A remedy of sorts (as described by some bloke in the discussion) is to add the noauto option to the Samba mounts and then mount the shares in /etc/rc.local.

I’m so happy I’m not using Linux/BSD for the desktop anymore.

Interview and performance on Letterman. Tom cracks me up.

Trailer for the movie.

One disc of Tom Waits is usually enough to have me raving with superlatives so a 3 disc effort is nothing short of phenomenal. Each disc on Orphans has it’s own theme. Brawlers is the rowdy more aggressive side, Bawlers is the ballads and slower songs while Bastards is a mix of everything. All three sides are excellent listening and I would personally rate it as one his best efforts ever. That’s saying something considering his back catalogue.

An Iranian UCLA student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, is repeatedly being tasered by a bunch of LA’s finest. Handcuffed and surrounded by at least three fat cops and they continue to shockriffle him because he won’t or quite possibly can’t stand up.

In 1991 Rodney King tried to get up while the cops told him to stay down. Life ain’t easy.

Marianne has started another blog at A Life More Interesting about cool stuff for kids. More or less an English clone of the Danish Kids Nyt which she also runs but fact is that there are so many great toys and stuff for kids that’s not sold in Denmark or even outside the United States. So we decided to set up this new blog. Still needs a bit polishing, sidebar items and graphics but it’s already raking up hundreds of hits per day so that’s great.

Camping sons of bitches! I wonder how many frags they got.

If you’re, like I was, getting tons of 404 errors (file not found) in your statistics on a WordPress 2.0 based blog you are likely using adsense. Problem in short is the new preview feature in WordPress when you’re writing a new post. The adsense code gets triggers Google into trying to index your page thereby generating the 404s.

To fix this problem simply wrap your AdSense code using the is_preview() function:

1. <?php if (!is_preview()): ?>
2. // Your Adsense code.
3. <?php endif; ?>

I’ve gone ahead and added YouTube playlists to my fairly extensive Pearl Jam site. It’s nothing more than the regular embed HTML code for the playlist’s permanent location but it’s pretty sweet nonetheless.

I’ve lost track of how many Web 2.0 APIs or external Web 2.0 site feeds I’m using there now. Let’s count.

• Flickr – for the sidebar pictures.
• del.icio.us – sidebar as well.
• upcoming – sidebar. For getting Pearl Jam related events.
• Google Maps – to show venue locations and to mashup with the upcoming.org events. For instance here.
• YouTube – concert playlists. For instance here.

Five big ones. I have a ton of ideas for combining all this information into more sweet mashupness madness and these ideas are going to trickle out one by one as time goes on.

Keith Olbermann on GOP fearmongering and the failure president Bush. Hopefully the rest of the country wakes up with the next elections. Good night and good luck.