Wed 23 May 2001
May 23, 2001
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hacking (AisleRiot2): Got cards drawing again — this time they’re scaled. Also started porting the drawing engine from AR1 over until I can get real SVG images.
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hacking (GtkTreeView): I added the amazing focusing but non-activateable buttons today. These are buttons that you can click on to give focus (necessary for reordering columns). However you can’t actually activate them. It’s a nice, small touch…
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work: Power outage caused by storm today. Fortunately, my roof didn’t leak for once.
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food: Made pumpkin-blueberry pie for dessert. It’s interesting, though a little sweet.
Sun 20 May 2001
May 20, 2001
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food: burned my finger barbecuing dinner tonight. Typing hurts.
Sat 19 May 2001
May 19, 2001
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hacking: wrote a highlighting mode for gtk-demo last night. I have a sinking feeling that it’s the most productive thing I did all week. All the tree bugs I fixed were fairly small ones that no one will ever really see, unless they do things in their program in a backwards order.
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guppi and gnumeric: Both of these apps are very cool. I used guppi today to view some profiling data, and it just worked (TM). gnumeric just seems to be getting better and better.
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boom: yaka-BOOM!
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battlebots: I want to build a battlebot.
Wed 16 May 2001
May 16, 2001
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movie: Fairwell My Concubine. A very good movie. Made me really greatful again I didn’t grow up in China during the cultural revolution. What a horrible, horrible thing that was. After the movie, I decided to go ahead and buy a book on Cantonese grammar so I can (try to) learn a little Cantonese with Zana.
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hacking (gtk+-HEAD): Lot of work sanitizing column code. Still not sure what some interactions are, but I’m ready to move to DnD. The tree will be finished some day…
Tue 15 May 2001
May 15, 2001
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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.
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hacking (Zope): Owen and I learned more about Zope then we wanted to this evening. Apparently, when setting the document root, we broke all management software. We had to save the page source to a file and edit the table target in order to fix it. Anyhow, it seems to basically work now.
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hacking (gdeck): Rusty Conover seems interested in it. Must-redouble-current-efforts!!!
Tue 08 May 2001
May 8, 2001
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health: Been sick for the last coupla days. It is very sad.
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hacking (GTK+-HEAD): I got the column-moving arrows looking pretty nice this afternoon. Not too bad for a sick guy.
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nautilus: Really rocks. I’m very excited about 1.0.3.
Sun 06 May 2001
May 6, 2001
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mummy: The mummy returns rocks! The Salon guy reviewing it totally missed the point! “There’s a fine line between coincidence and fate…” What wisdom! What truth! What a fun movie!
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alex: Got an apartment at sunstone. He’ll be living next to Owen now.
Fri 04 May 2001
May 4, 2001
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alex: Alex is now in town, staying here until he can find an apartment. Should be an interesting couple of days.
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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 (TM). Need to finish my attempts at putting ogg files at the same level of support as mp3’s.
Tue 01 May 2001
May 1, 2001
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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.
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hacking (Nautilus): Spent the night trying to modify the music view in Nautilus to handle ogg files. Dealing with the nautilus view and gnome-vfs was a lot less painful then I expected. Everything I tried basically worked. libvorbis seems to have a somewhat crufty API, but seems alright other then that. I have it currently displaying the correct file information. Tonight I’ll get it to play.
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hacking (gnome-vfs): I hope someone looks/comments on my patch.
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movie: Saw the Producers last night, and the Mummy the night before. Neither one was particular good, but both were very enjoyable. I think I’d like to go see the Mummy 2 this weekend. It looks like it will be much better on the big screen.
The reason we rented the Producers, was that I have a recollection of really enjoying it when I was a kid. I think I merged that film with “To Be or Not To Be”, though. Both movies have musicals with Hitler in them, and are made by Mel Brooks.
Sun 29 Apr 2001
April 29, 2001
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wedding: Zana and I have been married exactly a year. To celebrate our anniversary we went to the coast.
