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Monthly Archives: April 2004

29 April 2004

Holy crap, KEXP out of Seattle totally rules.
Last night beers and pool with a lot of GNOME folks. Got to meet many of the new Red Hat desktop hackers, that was fun. I didn’t bring my camera with me, but I’m sure others will post some. [...]

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haha

26 April 2004

I always laugh when I see this:
// <autogenerated> // This code was generated by a tool. // Mono Runtime Version: 1.1.4322.573
There’s a lot more code I’ve seen which could fit that description too.

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stick save

23 April 2004

We were tired of not having a goalie when we were playing hockey so I ordered a full get-up off the internet. The last pieces arrived today: the glove, blocker, and chest protector. But last night we tried some of the other stuff out in the hall at midnight.
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man it’s nice out here

22 April 2004

I am sitting outside the office with the laptop right now. It’s 78 and sunny out here, and it’s just gorgeous. The only bad thing is that the contrast on this powerbook is kind of bad and it’s hard to see white on black. But the minor inconvenience is worth it. [...]

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now that that’s off my chest

21 April 2004

Last night Jacob asked me why HAL (or more correctly, a HAL callout) needs to touch /etc/fstab. I said, “Because we need to be able to mount filesystems as non-root.” He asked why we couldn’t just patch mount.
The problem with that approach is that it doesn’t clearly separate policy from the [...]

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ftso at&t wireless

20 April 2004

WHAT THE FUCK.
I am pissed off now.
I was really excited about the number portability thing, so I stuck with Sprint PCS despite the inferior network and terrible customer service. I looked around a bit and decided to go with AT&T Wireless, since they had good reception at my house and office, Jacob [...]

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smitty ♥ wellesley girls

19 April 2004

Beautiful Patriots’ Day today. 85 degrees, sunny. Red Sox won, but the Bruins lost. Yet another first round loss… how disappointing. And not particularly encouraging for getting season tickets next year.

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well…

14 April 2004

I wasn’t going to bring it up, but since the topic of riding my creative coattails was broached…

exhibit “a”
I present to you an image of a whiteboard in my cube, written in early March. Note the use of the word “halificate”.
Speaking of which, [...]

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the rainy season

1 April 2004

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN WIDESPREAD URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN A FLOOD PRONE LOCATION BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

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