meh.

Believe it or not, I still get a steady trickle of comments on parts one and two of my SSH tutorial from last August. I'm happy to help those unfortunate enough to be shackled to a cubicle inside a restrictive firewall. And although there are better SSH tutorials out there — mine uses an old and relatively user-unfriendly SSH server package, for one thing — there are probably few that are more loquacious.

But I didn't answer all the questions that folks had. As I ate lunch today I took a stab at finding an answer to the biggest one: how to play Yahoo Games over SSH. I was pleasantly surprised to find how easy it was to get working, so I thought I might as well write it up. This method should work for other apps too (World of Warcraft comes to mind, although I guess it might let you configure a proxy server manually, instead of using this SOCKS hack).

Pretty much everything but "twitch" games, which use the un-SSH-able UDP protocol (and would suffer from the latency anyway) should work with this method.

daily candy chicago starts off a post today about a new european market by bemoaning the evils of lard. but if you read this delicious piece on lardo di colonnata (really, just pig's back fat), soon it's all you'll want to be eating. via megnut.

goddammit, i knew it. the limited amount of waste tickets on sale for the US radiohead shows are already all gone. i guess i'll have to try my luck with ticketmaster like the rest of the rubes. even then, it's likely i won't be able to get a ticket, and then i have to weigh how much i actually want to see them. tickets are approximately $50 as it is; is $100 worth it to me? $200? i guess, it's sad to say, at this point, that's doubtful. it seems likely to me that there will be three distinct radiohead periods in my life: my youth and theirs as a band, where i saw them a dozen times for minimal amounts of money; their inevitable popularity and acclaim where tickets are still somewhat reasonable but always sell out too fast too buy and my income doesn't allow me buy scalped ones from evil folks so i won't see them live for years at a time; and their slow decline where they'll start doing stadium shows for hundreds of dollars (face value, mind you!) but i will be old and rich and eager to relive my rock glory days that i will pony up. it seems we are currently in the second period.