CLICK HERE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE AUTO-GENERATOR!

Wow, this year caught up with me fast!  No changes this year for my yearly NCAA Auto-Picker, but I wanted to let you know what’s coming up in for next year:

• Choose your own Final Four!
  • I’ve been told that the key to a winning bracket is the ability to choose your own final four, and let a system like mine handle the lesser games.  I’m going to build this into my page very soon!
• Better rankings
  • Instead of relying solely on head-to-head ranking matchups,  I will be incorporating RPI and strength of schedule into the calculations.  We’ll see how this works out.

And now, read on for this year’s FAQ, gratuitously copied from last year’s! Read the rest of this entry »

Follow my progress at aprs.fi

Snowing again in Cincinnati – going to brave the white death to try to get to work! Wish I could stay home and work 20m instead!

To hell with the #groundhog! Meteorological spring begins on March 1!! (Only 27 days away!)

There is an updated version of this tutorial for Ubuntu 11.10!

For years, I have been a big fan of the usenet newsgroups. I think it’s one of the best little niches left on the internet, and it has one of the best ranges in content…  On usenet, you can have civilized, academic conversation, or unruly flame-wars between fanatics. You can also find some of the coolest binaries available on the net…hard-to-find music, out of print books in e-text, and pictures ranging from serene wallpapers to…well just about anything.

When Ubuntu’s newest version, Karmic Koala, came out, I was very dismayed to find that the distribution of the Pan newsreader available via the Synaptic package manager was broken.  Basically, any image that was posted as multi-part refused to load in the default window.

With some help from the folks on the pan-users mailing list, I was finally able to compile the code from a source repository being kept up by K.Haley, pan’s volunteer coder.  But I thought it might be nice to provide a step-by-step guide for newer linux users, as the whole process of downloading source from a github repository, the tracking down of the necessary development libraries, and the entire compilation process can be daunting.  Therefore, I came up with the following list of commands to run to get a patched version of Pan running from a normal install of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). Read the rest of this entry »

Go Blue – CRUSH OSU this weekend!

[wpaudio url="http://scottkuma.net/Michigan/Liquidate%20Ohio%20State.mp3" text="Liquidate Ohio State"]

And then there’s my daughter’s take on The Victors:

[wpaudio url="http://scottkuma.net/Michigan/Hail%20to%20the%20Victors%20(by%20Jessica).mp3" text="Hail to the Victors" dl="0"]