Category Archives: hacking

Tue 15 May 2001

movie: Saw “An Ideal Husband” with Alex and Zana. It was pretty good, though I felt like I’d seen it before. I felt really stupid at the end when I realized it was an Oscar Wilde play. I even think I’ve read it before. hacking (Zope): Owen and I learned more about Zope then we [...]

Tue 08 May 2001

health: Been sick for the last coupla days. It is very sad. hacking (GTK+-HEAD): I got the column-moving arrows looking pretty nice this afternoon. Not too bad for a sick guy. nautilus: Really rocks. I’m very excited about 1.0.3.

Fri 04 May 2001

alex: Alex is now in town, staying here until he can find an apartment. Should be an interesting couple of days. hacking (Nautilus): Nautilus truly rocks. I spent last night looking at it a bit with Alex. We found c couple things that it doesn’t do correctly, but most of the time it just worked [...]

Tue 01 May 2001

hacking (music): Spent a few minutes cleaning up Mr. Rupert’s Ripping and Encoding tools so they do a better job of encoding data into the ogg’s created. I am considering adding FreeDB support to the encoding tool so I can get the DATE field added. hacking (Nautilus): Spent the night trying to modify the music [...]

Fri 27 Apr 2001

blizzard: Went out to dinner at Peppers with Owen, Havoc and Amy. Then, I got a Chai from Caribou, to replace the one I had stupidly dropped the night before. It was good. hacking: wanted to finish my patch to gnome-vfs last night, but got distracted by the truly awful Lakers game. It seems like [...]

Tue 24 Apr 2001

hacking (GNOME 1.4): Worked more on some packages for Red Hat 7.1. It’s going to take some more QA before we release. go: Christian came over for dinner. We went to Carolina Brewery and had vaguely southern food. Went for coffee at Caribou (I got a light white berry as per normal). Afterwards, he taught [...]

Sun 22 Apr 2001

hacking: Tried to do some cool gnome-vfs hacks this weekend. Defeated by ./configure. )-: gardening: I mowed the lawn and tackled the wasps living in our Juniper. movie: Saw Go. Cheap pulpfiction knock off. Katie Holmes is still a babe, though…

Sat 21 Apr 2001

movie: Watched Time Bandits with Zana, Owen, Havoc and Amy. My head now hurts a bit. hockey: Amazing! They won. I wonder if tickets are on sale… hacking (GNOME): Built a huge number of packages today. QA comes next. Next week I’ll be back on the tree widget.

Thu 19 Apr 2001

pet peeve: There’s a commercial on TV advertising a CD-ROM that can “help you learn the computer!” It has a pretty vacuous blonde stating that “she has now learned the computer, thanks to [the product].” Try learning english first… hacking: Spent half the week building GNOME 1.4 packages for RH. This took a long time. [...]

Mon 16 Apr 2001

scrabble: Owen came over last night, and we played scrabble and ate chinese food. It was a lot of fun, though owen got miserable hands. I got a bingo with ‘sunrays’ and got 79 points as a result. parents: Went home to California after a few days. My dad helped mow the lawn making it [...]