Mon 19 Nov 2001

  • Website: Decided to play webmaster tonight and worked on my site a bit. Not quite ready yet to make it live. But I will put it up soon.

  • Music: Got “In The Beginning…” by Genesis recently. It’s all their early stuff. I hadn’t listened to it much since my roommate in college had it. It’s kind of fun.

  • GTK+ (GtkTreeView): Committed the last (knock on wood) API change for GTK+ 2.0 for GtkTreeView. I’m pretty happy with most of it. There are a few warts left (column sizing), but I think it’s definitely an improvement. For GTK+ 2.2, it’ll definitely be very cool.

Sun 04 Nov 2001

  • Meta: Missed all of October. I went to another wedding in Chicago during that time. Zana and I got cell phones. I worked a lot on the GtkTreeView; it’s getting close to finished now. So much happened, so little was detailed. I suppose I should write it down so I can remember, if nothing else.

  • Design: The OXO Good Grips people continue to impress me. After a string of Mediocre products recently (I did not like their can opener) I was floored by their new Tea Kettle. Wow! I bet all Tea Kettles in the future work like that.

  • Location: I seem to be writing entries primarily in airports, nowadays. (-:

Wed 19 Sep 2001

  • food: Just had dinner. Limp salad with Heinz salad dressing in a ketchup packet. Lousy chicken and rice. Shrek on the TV. Mediocre Merlot. Whole wheat bread with cheese and butter. Crackers. Lemon cream pie, and a pecan chocolate shaped like a reeses peanut butter cup for dessert. Served with plastic cutlery. The merlot bottle seems more dangerous than the old metal knives they used to provide. Had Tea and a glass of ice water to wash it all down.

  • food (tea): Tea had heavy cream and Equal. I don’t know why I bothered with the equal.

  • flight path: Still over land. I had hoped we’d be over the atlantic by now.

  • nautilus: Seems to be having problems with my ChangeLog. Bad!

  • city lights: There’s very light cloud cover right now. As we hit variations in the cloud’s density the lights dim and brighten, much as if some one had a giant rheostat attached to them. I’d like to see the rheostat for the world.

Wed 19 Sep 2001

  • X (XDrawRectangle): Awful discovery. I had assumed that drawing a rectangle with XDrawRectangle meant that it drew a rectangle at [x, y], with sides width and height pixels wide. Unfortunately, it draws the rectangle determined by the points [x, y], [x + width, y], [x + width, y + height], [x, y + height]. This means that the sides are (width + 1) and (length + 1) pixels wide and long. This also explains a lot of the minor drawing/sizing bugs in the GtkTreeView. I fear I’ve just remade a classic X mistake.

  • airplane: Finally took off (an hour late). Food just arrived. I wish I could suspend.

  • pixels: Off a pixel, on a pixel, correct pixel, wrong pixel. What a funny word. I can’t think of anything that rhymes with it.

Wed 19 Sep 2001

  • airport: Surprisingly minimal security at the gate. Still, it’s better than what existed before. I’m a still little miffed though, as zana and I were told on the phone to be at the gate three hours prior to departure. It took 10 minutes to get everything set. Zana has an hour more to wait than me.

  • airport (redux): This is definitely the most organized I’ve ever seen the airport.

  • airport (electricity): Just changed gtkmarshal.list. I managed to find a plug just prior to compilation. This is very good, as I was afraid I’d be low on battery before boarding the plane.

  • hacking (GTK+-HEAD): With some help from anders (happy birthday!), I got editable cells working pretty well.

  • music: My dad got me a copy of György Ligeti for my birthday. It’s very, very good airport music. Björk is good airport music too. Something about those ‘ö’s…