Posts maching category 'Personal'
I love many things about git, but I use Subversion at my day job. Two git features please me enough that I took the time to build them into my svn workflow: paged diffs and “commit -v.”
Paged Diffing
Many times I require my svn diff output to be paged through less. Rather than append | less [...]
/972/subversion-missing-features - Personal - 0 Comments - 2010-01-25
I think this is the app I've been waiting for.
/812/managing-money-with-buxfer - Personal - 2 Comments - 2009-05-11
Freedom is never having to worry about disk space.
/557/space - Personal - 0 Comments - 2008-10-07
Transactions should be supported by everything.
/493/adodb-mysql-and-transactions - Personal - 0 Comments - 2008-07-23
Easy is good.
/460/google-doctype-firefox-quick-searches - Personal - 1 Comments - 2008-07-06
Bootsie, family pet of 20 years, sworn enemy of canines, and friend of everyone else, has passed away.
Thank you for the companionship.
/383/bootsie - Personal - 1 Comments - 2006-10-12
I know, I know, it’s been a while. There will be no apologies or excuses!
/351/oops - Personal - 6 Comments - 2005-11-17
Early this AM I drove back into Wentworth, fresh off the train from North Carolina after visiting with Jen all weekend. Nice place, it was. I saw a bit of art, ate some good food, and generally just hung out for a few days.
Also on the docket was a concert by Aimee Mann. She played [...]
/317/travel - Personal - 4 Comments - 2005-06-21
Over at FileFormat.info there is a pretty cool resource for finding Unicode characters. For example: the inverted Ohm sign. They’ve got character codes, a Java reference, raster and vector files of the character, and more. That’s a lot of data for just one character.
/316/font - Computers, Rants - 0 Comments - 2005-06-10
How did the web seep so far into e-mail?
/301/leakage - Rants, web - 2 Comments - 2005-03-31
But still, my gut tells me that it is wrong.
/265/have - Personal - 1 Comments - 2004-11-06
Much as I love their products, Apple has still failed me in one important regard: they have not released iTunes for Linux.
/255/itms - Personal - 2 Comments - 2004-10-07
Going broke has never been easier.
/253/may-i-have-another - Personal - 3 Comments - 2004-10-04
That's the news. Now here's Al, with hot gay men.
/250/adsense - Personal - 0 Comments - 2004-09-16
It's April and it's showing. April showers... April snow showers?
/208/showers - Personal - 3 Comments - 2004-04-04
I’ve just read yet another article on US outsourcing to Asia for more and more IT jobs. Specifically, Corporate America’s Silent Partner: India, via Slashdot. From the article:
True, corporations likely won’t feel comfortable about openly talking about their offshore activities until job growth returns to the U.S.
Job growth? In the US? This is in an [...]
/190/jobs - Rants - 0 Comments - 2003-12-21
Because it’s not like Karl is going to.
Haven’t had much to blog about lately. I’ve been reasonably busy with classes and work, as well as side projects. Most of the computer related things I do end up in my wiki, which is turning out to be invaluable. (And I finally moved it from my personal [...]
/189/updates - Personal - 0 Comments - 2003-12-19
Winter quarter is drawing to a close. It's already ancient history for most of the students here...
/187/holiday - Personal - 4 Comments - 2003-11-19
I have this problem speaking my mind. I clam up, don’t say anything that might be remotely confrontational. Even sometimes, when I think it’s important, I still say nothing. Don’t ruffle the feathers, don’t stir up those waters. I wonder where it comes from. I think, My dad seems like this, did I get it [...]
/185/acgt-if-you-please - Personal - Comments Off - 2003-11-15
Cheese sandwiches, co-ops, website updates, and thin clients, oh my.
/179/fall-updates - Personal - 2 Comments - 2003-09-11
Lately, there has been much discussion regarding the complex dynamic between professors and students. Many people have already weighed with their thoughts on context, roles, hierarchy, respect and boundaries. Should professors befriend their students? Would friendship diminish their authority and level of respect in the classroom? There’s a lot to consider. I’ve been milling things [...]
/177/still-playing-roles - Personal - 2 Comments - 2003-08-31
No roommates; Xircom Wireless LAN.
/174/i-think-im-alone-now - Personal - 1 Comments - 2003-08-25
We have a new resident in the University Commons parking lot.
/172/the-word-is-excess - Rants - 6 Comments - 2003-08-06
I've logged sixty-four hours of long drives since the beginning of June. That's a lot.
/170/getting-there-from-here - Personal - 1 Comments - 2003-07-29
Slashdot linked to an article at the New York Times entitled The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive? The basic gist is this: some people become addicted to information, getting a rush from multitasking and being connected. In other words: it’s me, and it’s why I feel compelled to catch up on web comics while [...]
/167/the-lure-of-data - Personal - 4 Comments - 2003-07-06
Tomorrow, I leave work early to drive to New Hampshire. Friday, I will leave New Hampshire for Massachusetts. Saturday, I will leave Massachusetts for New Hampshire. Sunday, I will leave New Hampshire for Rochester.
Estimated driving time: 22 hours.
Have a good weekend. Enjoy the holiday.
/166/summer-of-three-day-vacations - Personal - 3 Comments - 2003-07-02
"An application should always present a window when its Dock icon is clicked." Does anyone else find this feature slightly annoying?
/164/dock-annoyances - Computers, Rants, macosx - 7 Comments - 2003-06-29
Friday. 8:00. SCI FI. Stargate SG-1. Don’t miss it. I know where I’ll be.
The three-hour block will start off with Stargate: The Lowdown, followed by the two-hour season premiere. I’ve been big into SG1 lately. Used to watch it back on HBO. How long ago was that?
So, anyway, it’s almost here. If you’re into science [...]
/160/chevron-seven-locked - Personal - 0 Comments - 2003-06-12
Not much to report. I am settled back into the apartment here at RIT, enjoying the peace and quiet, but missing friends of various size and stature.
/159/no-news-is-good-news - Personal - 0 Comments - 2003-06-10
Things I will do when school ends (in no particular order):
Move useful content over to the main Bwerp server.
Find a better way to manage online content. (Not talking blogs here.)
Stabilize my thin client setup.
Play old SNES RPGs, like:
Link to the Past
Earthbound
Secret of Mana
Illusion of Gaia
Those are my more immediate concerns. Sweet freedom, how I have [...]
/157/todo - Personal - 0 Comments - 2003-05-23
I’m staying at RIT for the summer. Will update soon. Transmission en–
/155/summer-plans - Personal - 0 Comments - 2003-05-15
Everywhere you go in New Hampshire, you see the Old Man of the Mountain. A natural formation of rocks, formed thousands of years ago, his profile has watched over the White Mountains and been our state symbol for generations.
Last Thursday, New Hampshire lost not only a monument, but a dear friend.
It is hard for me [...]
/153/goodbye-boss - Personal - 1 Comments - 2003-05-04
Disillusionment is rearing its ugly head.
/151/will-intern-for-food - Personal - 5 Comments - 2003-04-28
Most people go through life not knowing what a soaking wet carpet sounds and feels like. This morning, my life was enriched.
I saw the dark footprints on the carpet as soon as I woke up. I assumed there had been a spill of some sort, and thought about calling Housing to get it cleaned up. [...]
/142/of-indoor-swimming-pools - Personal - 0 Comments - 2003-03-25
Everything but the weather, that is. Spring break has come to a close, and today is the first day of the last quarter of my junior year. I’m simply bursting with excitement.
I’ve been playing around with the green stylesheet, and it’s here for good this time. I made sure to back it up, so I [...]
/140/spring-has-sprung - Personal - 0 Comments - 2003-03-10
From an article on Kuro5hin.org:
Music sales in Germany have been in decline for the last five years, dropping 11% last year, and German copyright holders seem to think digital copying might have something to do with it. As Gerd Gebhardt, president of Bundesverband Phono (Germany’s RIAA), asked: “If it were possible tomorrow to copy bread [...]
/139/ok-real-quick - Personal - 1 Comments - 2003-03-04
Sitting here in my old house, wearing flannel-lined khakis and my extremely orange topato hoodie, with my new keyboard in arm’s reach. Life is good.
Happy Holidays to everybody!
/121/mmm-vacation - Personal - 3 Comments - 2002-12-25
Heard this one on the way home from class yesterday:
My dad said, “How about you get a job on campus?” I said, “How about I saw your face off with a soldering iron?”
My faith in my peers wanes more every day.
/114/overheard - Personal - 0 Comments - 2002-12-11
In an effort to improve uptime, I have moved my Movable Type setup to my iBook. It should be up pretty much constantly, at the address pridian.rh.rit.edu.
Pridian, for the curious, is a Latin adjective meaning “pertaining or belonging to the previous day.” I think that loosely applies to a blog, no?
/113/server-move - Personal - 2 Comments - 2002-12-08
In my first post (!), I briefly mentioned the supression of my own ego, and it’s something I’d like to elaboration on. Read on for my thoughts on ego, coding, and swallowing your own pride…
/111/on-ego - Personal - 1 Comments - 2002-12-07