Category Archives: sleep

Tue 23 Aug 2005

sleep: While trying to get a better idea on which operations poppler is slow, I wrote a little tool to profile pages. I really should have gone to sleep, instead. http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/Screenshot-PDF%20Inspector-1.png

Thu 06 Nov 2003

GConfPropertyEditor: I was unable to sleep last night, and ended up staying up until 4:30 in the morning watching reruns of “Who’s Line is it Anyway” and working on my rewrite of the GConfPropertyEditors. Now that James Henstridge has done work on bug #69639 I have a lot more interest in getting this into the [...]

Sat 25 Aug 2001

scanners: These things suck under linux. Apparently I’m pretty incompetent. Usenix: Apparently I was never mailed that I was going to give a talk. I need to write the paper soon. GNOME: I’ve signed up to do waaay too much. Man, I’m hosed. On the good side, I applied James Cape’s patch (after a lot [...]

Thu 23 Aug 2001

consumerism (redux): Bought a scanner today. My attempts to get it to work with sane have been all for naught, thus far. Grrr… druid: Spent the evening pretending to clean up GnomeDruidPageStandard while watching Scary Movie. It wasn’t as bad as I’d thought, or as good as I’d hoped. They managed to show all the [...]