The result is nm-connection-delegation, a simple set of scripts that hook into Network Manager events if-up and if-down. To use, simply extract into /etc/network on any Debian or Ubuntu based system:

sudo tar -C /etc/network -zxf nm-connection-delegation-0.1.tar.gz

And configure a few values in /etc/network/connection-delegation. Note that this solution only works when both primary and secondary interfaces are on the same subnet.

I would like to extend my thanks to the gnome team/community for a great last
moment with my dad.

Thanks so much for the great software, and a new great memory.
-Ian Page Hands


Oh, the jobs people work at! Out west, near Hawtch-Hawtch, there’s a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher. His job is to watch… is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee. A bee that is watched will work harder, you see.

Well…he watched and he watched. But, in spite of his watch, that bee didn’t work any harder. Not mawtch.

So then somebody said, ‘Our old bee-watching man just isn’t bee-watching as hard as he can. He ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher! The thing that we need is a Bee-Watcher -Watcher!’

Well… The Bee-Watcher-Watcher watched the Bee-Watcher. He didn’t watch well. So another Hawtch-Hawtcher had to come in as a Watch Watcher-Watcher!

And today all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch are watching on Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watch, Watch-Watching the Watcher who’s watching that bee.

You’re not a Hawtch-Watcher. You’re lucky, you see.

• NPR (Audio/Text via NPR Android app, Text via web feed on iGoogle, Audio via FM radio)
• TED Talks (via Ted Talks Boxee app)
• The Linux Action Show (Audio via web feed on Listen Android app, Video via web feed on Boxee)
• xkcd (via web feed on iGoogle)

Blags

• Slashdot
• Lifehacker
• I Heart Robotics
• MintLife
• Dive Into Mark
• The Setup

• Make the FreeDream theme localizable by wrapping all the text in __(…) or _e(…) GNU gettext wrappers. Ironically, the theme was written by a French lady who hard-coded some French strings that I had to first translate to English so that I could then …
• Translate the FreeDream theme to French. I used Poedit which has a mediocre UI, but it met my minimum requirements. This tool scanned the theme’s PHP source and generated a .pot/.po. I commissioned some help to get the strings translated then generated the .mo file (poedit actually does this automatically every time you save) and uploaded to the theme’s directory. Things looked good, but there were still some miscellaneous strings still in English. To zap those, I had to…
• Install WPML and translate some more. WPML is the key ingredient that makes translating a WordPress site manageable. And it does so without mucking up the default WordPress SQL tables. Aside from providing nice interfaces that allow you to translate all your own content (posts, categories, and pages), it also hunts down those miscellaneous strings that I mentioned and provides a web interface to translate them. You can even export .po/.mo files when you’re done. Very cool. This is the feature that makes it easy to…
• Localize custom site features. Since WPML can translate Text widgets (which can hold HTML and even PHP) I was able to add a growth chart generated by Google Chart that displayed inches or centimeters based on the locale. In the same way, I added a MailChimp RSS-to-Email subscription form that subscribed users to the correct list – an English one connected to domain.com/feed/ and a French one connected to domain.com/fr/feed/.

And voilà.

I was a simple job with needle nose pliers and a utility knife and now I have a wallet-size USB drive:

• Braun-jones
• Braunjones
• Braun Jones

Yet those were my options according the the person responding from info@reunion-specialists.com. I fully understand the problem they face¹:

Sorry about the limited options, alumni were entering their names with all caps or all lower case and the name badges looked terrible so we wrote this rule to keep things as consistent as possible.

But their solution is pathetic: always capitalize the first letter and any subsequent letter that is preceded by a space. Since the support contact at Reunions Specialists was completely unapologetic and not even willing to fix my name by hand, I decided to stop for 15 minutes and spoon feed the webmaster of the reunion-specialists.com. A very good (but not perfect) solution is not difficult to design if you just realize that (1) virtually no surname consists of all lowercase or all uppercase and (2) almost all mis-capitalization is due to the use of all lowercase or all uppercase. So, if the entered surname contains mixed case, the user probably meant for it to be that way. If not, do your best to guess the correct capitalization, but since the user didn’t even care enough to type it right, don’t feel bad if you don’t get it perfect. Here’s a basic PHP implementation:

function CapitalizeLastName($name) {
    /* Only try to "fix" the capitalization if it is wrong */
    if (strtolower($name) == $name || strtoupper($name) == $name) {
        $name = strtolower($name);
        $name = join("'", array_map('ucwords', explode("'", $name)));
        $name = join("-", array_map('ucwords', explode("-", $name)));
    }
    return $name;
}

This gives pretty decent results:

braun-jones -> Braun-Jones
BRAUN-JONES -> Braun-Jones
Braun-Jones -> Braun-Jones
St. Jean -> St. Jean
st. jean -> St. Jean
ST. JEAN -> St. Jean
de cordova -> De Cordova
De Cordova -> De Cordova
de Cordova -> de Cordova
McDonald -> McDonald
o'reilly -> O'Reilly
O'Reilly -> O'Reilly
O'REILLY -> O'Reilly
Brown -> Brown
BROWN -> Brown
brown -> Brown

1. Well, not really. They are charging $80-100 per person to attend a high school reunion so I know they have the funds to do old-fashioned human input validation.