If you ever run into "too many authentication attempts" on sshing to a host, you'll want to add "IdentitiesOnly yes" in your ssh config. GNOME (Ubuntu et. al) helpfully throw all of your keys under .ssh into ssh-agent on login. It will then try each and every one of them …

If someone knows of a Twitter plugin for posting from Wordpress to Twitter, please let me know. I was using Status.net / Identi.ca for posting to several places at once, but since Identi.ca is now using pump.io, and doesn't have a Twitter bridge, that is no longer …

If someone knows how to update a Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G touch to Jellybean without using Kies (preferably under Linux), please let me know. Spent way too long trying to get this working under Virtualbox, and have nothing but failure to show for it.

Thanks in advance.

I've figured out about how much it costs me to be lazy. It's approximately $100 per minute. That's how much it cost me for 6 minutes of unabashed laziness when it came to my computer over Memorial Day weekend. It's a lesson that's hard-won, and I'd like to share it …

It's hard to remember a time before distributed version control systems became the norm. When Git, bzr, and hg started being used there was a culture shock. Where does the central repository live? Who can commit, and to where? How to I merge several developers' work together into one repo …