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Monthly Archives: September 2005

look big daddy, it’s regular daddy

24 September 2005

It’s not uncommon for a band to parade through my neighborhood, usually on some Portuguese or Brazilian holiday afternoon. But just now a southern jazz band just went playing by — to say they were “marching” wouldn’t exactly be accurate — after the sun had gone down on a random Saturday evening.
I love this [...]

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beagle ui hackfest

22 September 2005

Come join us this weekend for a Beagle UI hackfest, in the #dashboard IRC channel on irc.gimp.org.
The primary goal for this hackfest will be to implement as much of a new user interface as we can. Here’s a mockup from our kick ass design team:

I’ll be in and out all weekend. Hope [...]

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it’s my generation’s jack ruby moment

21 September 2005

Oh my god, I can’t believe I’m about to watch a plane make an emergency landing live on TV.
Actually, did I see UA flight 232 live on TV? I think I did. If I remember correctly I was flying the next day.
I was in an emergency landing once. Exciting stuff seeing fire [...]

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sweet sweet nectar

17 September 2005

A couple of weeks ago I went back to Kent to see my friend Scott’s play The Hummingbird, visit friends and family, and see the new house.
At first I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. Then-tropical depression Katrina was making its way over Ohio and causing all kinds of travel problems. [...]

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care to make that a la mode?

15 September 2005

Beagle 0.1.0 is out there. This version, two months coming, is a masterpiece. The file system backend is much more robust, indexing and querying is much faster, has static read-only index support, works as sanely as possible on NFS. It’s really, really great. Check out the lengthy release notes for the [...]

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now we just need barren realms elite and legend of the red dragon servers

9 September 2005

TradeWars 2002. The game that redefined BBS doors. The game that singlehandedly buried Yankee Trader. The game that forced BBSes to get a second phone line, which you couldn’t afford because you were barely able to pay for the first phone line with the proceeds from your extremely dangerous rural bike-based [...]

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if it’s not worth doing half-assed, it’s not worth doing

9 September 2005

At long, long last I updated the services on open-carpet.org to support both SUSE Linux 9.3 and 10.0, both i386 and x86-64. Go nuts.

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