Finally, after being in the shop for a solid month, I got my
laptop back today. Being a G3 iBook, it had suffered from the dreaded
ibook logic board
failure, and so the repair was covered by Apple, even though I
hadn’t purchased the extended warranty
AppleCare™ for it.
This is the last straw. I’ve put up with plenty [...]
Today, I went to the hearing and speech clinic. It was the first
time I’ve gone in 6 years, and it wasn’t too fun. After running the
tests and charting the results, the audiologist then showed me results
from today, 6 years ago, and 13 years ago (there were more there, but
they weren’t necessary to make the [...]
for me to poop on!
Triumph can’t poop on the Planet, but he poops really well on Colin’s
site.
Saturday night I ate sushi and watched Gozu. It wasn’t planned this way, but they worked well together.
Gozu is a pretty F’ed-up movie. It starts out as movie about a
Yakuza gang and quickly turns into something else entirely. Supposedly
its partly a tribute to David Lynch; its certainly just as bizzarre as
a Lynch film. I [...]
On my list of things to do, right after ‘write a
quoridor
clone in C# / GTK#’ is ‘learn
ruby‘,
followed closely by ‘learn
rails‘. So, I’ve been reading
Loud Thinking,
David Heinemeier Hansson’s blog (the creator of RoR).
Today, DHH talks about this new RoR based site,
odeo. Odeo isn’t live yet, but it looks
promising. The whole thing revolves around
podcasting, letting
people publish their [...]
Sometime during my transit to school yesterday, I lost the cap off
my USB thumb drive.
Phil
provided me with one of those green PS/2 to USB
connectors, which worked as a cap for a while (i.e. till I got home),
but considering the relative
size
of my thumb drive to one of those things, it looked a little stupid.
A [...]
A man of his word, Mr. Johnston did in fact install
Ubuntu on his
computer. There were a few hick-ups along the way, but those can be
attributed to the fact that we used a beta-quality nightly build of
the install CD, and should not be held against Ubuntu.
Phil’s laptop,
on the other hand, was an absolute
nightmare. Ubuntu, [...]
Dear Mr CBC,
Thank you for providing
Ogg
Vorbis
streams.
Love,
James
A workshop proposal submitted by
elijah,
fer,
mariano,
pbor,
and I
was accepted today for this year’s GUADEC
in Stuttgart, Germany. It’s about showing new people how to contribute to
GNOME. Not that you have to wait till GUADEC to get involved, you can just point your favorite IRC client at #gnome-love on GIMPNet </shameless plug>.
Oh yeah, and they’re holding GUADEC in [...]
My girlfriend and I saw
Constantine today,
which was like The Punisher (2004, not 1988) without the suck. The devil sports some rockin’ tattoos
Snacks for the film included a 15 pack of
Mashmallow
Peeps. Those buggers are
delicious, and they gave me a great idea. So, next time I get some peeps I’m going to try making a peep [...]