life: It’s been almost a month since I last wrote something. In that time, I jumped from working frantically on GTK+ 2.4.0 to doing sysadmin work full time. I’m quite exhausted.
games: I found a great site dedicated to preserving underrated arcade and video games (http://www.the-underdogs.org/). Most excitingly, they have Douglas Adams’ [...]
life: “All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.” It’s raining here in Boston, washing away all the newly fallen snow.
life: I got this nugget from Seth on irc today:
seth> Jrb: but seriously, if you haven’t tried answering desktop-devel mail from a rowboat drifting through the night you have yet to live
life: I fear, by that definition, I’m living it up.
Life: We now tentatively have a house in Massachusetts. We’ll be moving up there after GU4DEC. It should be a lot of fun to be there, though the moving will be rough.
TV: I think my current favorite show on TV is Boomtown. It may be just because I grew up in [...]
GTK+: Spent a couple days this week getting the GtkTreeView to work in a RTL locale. It was the last major widget in need of support added – though it showed some RTL bugs in other widgets. As an added bonus, I also got column expanding working, which should make Seth very happy. [...]
Life: I’m going to ask for a transfer to the Red Hat office in Massachussetts. There are a lot of little reasons for asking for this change. None of them are quite big enough to push the move by itself, but as a whole, they add up to being quite compelling. I’m going [...]
life: Today was a very bad day. Thank God for my family, and especially Rosanna…
life: It’ll be years before life is as good as it was yesterday.
Bad Behavior has blocked 55 access attempts in the last 7 days.
Sat 21 Jun 2003
Life (Passings): On a somber note, Steven Taylor has left this world after fatal complications from a sugery. He was one of my co-workers at Red Hat and I didn’t know him very well. I talked to him only occasionally, passing by him in the halls every few days. When things like [...]