Author Archives: admin

Tue 13 Jun 2006

cairo: What an excellent dockudrama! Or maybe it’s just a dockumentary..

cairo (two): That post does point out akamaru, written by Kristian Högsberg. It’s a pretty nifty little physics model written with cairo. I don’t know how practical it is, but it’s pretty fun to play with.

passings: It was sad to [...]

Mon 29 May 2006

presents: Sometimes the dog decides to bring me a present. Tonight, it was a very dead bird at two in the morning…

Sat 27 May 2006

whoops: Things you don’t want to hear your plumber say:

“Can you run downstairs really fast and make sure that there’s no water coming out of the ceiling. I’m not kidding!”

SoC: We ended up getting some excellent Summer of Code applicants this year. I’m mentoring the forms in evince project. It [...]

Mon 08 May 2006

back to work: I have 1309 unread messages in my inbox. If one of them is yours, please be patient. I’ll try to get to it soon.

Mon 08 May 2006

Eleanor: Eleanor’s stub fell off today! That means that she now has a belly button, and more importantly, can now graduate to the (better fitting) size one diapers. She is also gaining weight well, and is past her birthweight.

Also, she is wide awake right now. I hope she can sleep tonight.

SOC: [...]

Sun 30 Apr 2006

life: Eleanor is now over a week old, and is absolutely perfect! She has even started to sleep a little longer at night. Unfortunately for us, night for her seems to be from eight PM through four AM. Still, she is developing well and is gaining weight.

httpd: Every time I touch mod_rewrite, [...]

Sat 22 Apr 2006

life: Eleanor Kathleen Blandford was born yesterday at 5:40 PM, EDT. She weighed seven pounds, twelve ounces. Both mother and daughter are doing well.

Thu 20 Apr 2006

meta: Again, a long time between updates. This time, it’s because I moved blogging software again. Instead of my own, crufty, home-grown software, I decided to use Federico’s home-grown, crufty software. But Federico’s uses emacs, which gives it pretty good style points.

Sat 11 Feb 2006

olympics: Opening Ceremony was very good

Nordic Combined: What a dumb sport! Skiing uphill?

epiphany: I’m always impressed with epiphany’s attention to detail.

Tue 31 Jan 2006

life: It’s been too long since I’ve written something. The usual excuses apply. I basically have no time, anymore, for anything.

ridley: While not strictly ridley related, I was excited to see that Kris wrote a patch for the TreeView that let you select by rubberbanding. We are still not sure how [...]

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