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Monthly Archives: March 2005

i have outlined the following jefferson starship song

29 March 2005

Things we built this city on:

rock
roll

You say you don’t:

know me
recognize my face
care who goes to that kind of place

Knee deep in:

hoopla

Sinking in:

your fight

Too many:

runaways eating up:

the night

The city:

by the bay
that rocks
that never sleeps

(wtf)

a golden egg of opportunity falls into your lap this month

25 March 2005

I just got something in the mail from the AARP:

Dear Mr. Thomas Shaw,
Our records show that you haven’t yet registered for the benefits of AARP membership, even though you are fully eligible.
[...]
As a member, you’ll have the resources and information you need to get the most out of life over 50. You’ll have access [...]

“except in my dream I wasn’t wearing any pants”

25 March 2005

The Friday Brainshare keynote featuring Nat and Miguel is up. Miggie and Erik start demoing mono around minute 45, and Nat demos a bunch of interesting things around the one hour mark, including Beagle, Tomboy, and F-Spot. He also shows the totally awesome effects of Xgl and Luminocity. As always there is [...]

more loyal than ever

23 March 2005

Beagle 0.0.8 is out! This version is a major improvement in both stability and performance. Tons of bugs fixed, gobs of memory reclaimed. This is without a doubt the best beagle release ever.
This new version includes an optional web services API, better handling for moving files around, a more robust mail backend, [...]

woof it redux

1 March 2005

Jacob: No, I don’t think so.

i work with giants

1 March 2005

It was just brought to my attention that Robert Love is one of mankind’s most famous computer scientists, joining the likes of Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, and John von Neumann.
Robert Love: I never thought I’d be on the same list as turing and it not be “gay people”
Joe Shaw: oh man i am definitely blogging [...]

woof it you mutt

1 March 2005

Check it out, Beagle 0.0.7 is out there, and you don’t need inotify anymore! This should hopefully lower the barrier to entry for a lot of you potential contributors out there. That said, if you’re the adventurous type, inotify is the best way to experience the sexiness that is the Live Query.