The Waterfront Warehouse Bash was brilliant.
Thanks to these two guys, and everyone else who was involved, for
an awesome night.
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Monthly Archives: March 2005
A level, indeed
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Clyde Fans Make excellent reads
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Reading helps keep the ol’ thinkamajig in tip-top shape. Novels
are my box lunch, but sometimes I like to have steak, or a big mac. In
this vein, I present the following:
Make Vol 1
is the first issue of O’Reilly’s
new quarterly ‘mook’.
I had originally not intended to get a copy of Make; at $21.99 CAN a
pop, [...]
The finer things
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
I’m not one to shop at the dollar store. My parents tell me I have
expensive tastes; that I have always had expensive tastes. I assert
that I just don’t like cheap crap. It’s not about cost, but quality
(the GNOME vs Windows speech goes here).
So I was very much not impressed with the job the tailor [...]
Document Lovin’
Sunday, March 20, 2005
(Apologies to everyone who has heard my PDF rant before.)
Reading PDFs on Linux sucks. That is, it used to suck, until the
desktop group at Red Hat released
the result of a weekend hack-fest: Evince.
Evince is brilliant. The project has only been alive for ~2
months, but already its the best document viewer available for
Linux. PDF, PS, images; [...]
Coming Soon to a Head Near You
Thursday, March 17, 2005
(That’s yours tomorrow, Jon.)
Ah, St. Patty’s Day… After an incident at the grawood where one
Dan K. put far too much green in the beer, I’ve switched to black
velvets for all my Irish-related holiday needs.
For the uninitiated, a black velvet is half
guinness and half sparkling wine.
It tastes far better than it sounds, and goes down smooth [...]
Waterfront Warehouse Whatchamajigger
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Not only does the society
regularly offer drinks at criminal prices, now they’ve put together what
promises to be the best. event. ever.
The lovely Ms. Vissers and I will be attending; I would already
have my tickets if Pat
hadn’t dropped the ball on that one. A note to
the organizers: I already own an Xbox and a Game Cube, [...]
/usr/lib/blog.so
Monday, March 14, 2005
I got a nice email from
Carol Cooke today,
one of the authors of
technogeekery for librarians.
She’s a Librarian at the University of Manitoba, and is exploring what other Canadian Universities (and their libraries in particular) are doing with blogs, in the hopes of getting her University to adopt the technology. I
wish her the best of luck [...]
Creationism
Friday, March 11, 2005
This is
awesome. Not because I’ll use it (I’m all ogg, baby), but because
these guys wanted an iTunes Music Store interface in Linux (or at
least wanted to make one), so they did it.
What’s funny is that they also released a Win32 installer. If MacOS X had a non X11 gtk+ port, I’d totally put out [...]
Have you hugged a developer today?
Thursday, March 10, 2005
A lot of Free software developers end up taking a lot of flack
from some users. People demand to know why feature X wasn’t
implemented yet, or why feature Y was removed. They may keep flaming
about it long after any worth-while discussion has ended. As a result,
the developers’ time is wasted trying to deal with this [...]
Tooting my own horn
Thursday, March 10, 2005
In a flurry of productivity, I crafted myself a web-site to complement the
blog. Fun facts: It uses neither php nor perl, and there are no
repeated presentation elements whatsoever. I decided to go with the
Cheetah template system, though I could have just
as easily used one of the gajillions of other templating systems for any other language. [...]