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Monthly Archives: December 2007

you can’t even buy a war for $12.2 billion

30 December 2007

Well, that’s it. The Big Dig is over. It came in a little over budget, sure, but you need to keep things in perspective.
Last week Brette and I went to Chicago. Had a great time visiting with her sister and brother-in-law and trow. We went and saw a show at Second [...]

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27 December 2007

dBera released Beagle 0.3.2 today. It fixes a handful of bugs found in the previous 0.3.x releases and adds a few new features as well. Among them are using HAL for detecting whether the system is on battery, support for gzipped and bzip2′d man pages and a system-wide man page crawler, a new [...]

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new tricks

15 December 2007

I’ve been negligent in my blogging duties. Two weeks ago I released Beagle 0.3.0 and Beagle-Xesam 0.1. We followed it up quickly with a 0.3.1 bug fix release on Monday, dBera’s first ever release as co-maintainer!
The 0.3 series is a new major release, and it has a bunch of great new stuff:

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i can make any situation about me

9 December 2007

A couple people didn’t quite understand my parody post referring to an off-the-cuff remark by Federico nine years ago. I happened to come across it just mindlessly browsing it the other day, and thought it would be funny to suggest that the GNOME and Novell folk have been cooking up this idea to sell [...]

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i, on the other hand, ate like a whole bag of trail mix for dinner

7 December 2007

Interesting article in the New York Times today. Junk food costs only $1.76 per 1000 kcal, whereas healthy food costs $18.16. This is in part because junk food is much heavier in sugars and other carbohydrates. But as Michael Pollen wrote about in April, a large part of it is because of [...]

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somebody let boycottnovell know

7 December 2007

GNOME CO-FOUNDER AND NOVELL EMPLOYEE SAYS EXCEL IS “CERTAINLY A NICE PIECE OF SOFTWARE.”
When will those Novell guys stop suckling at the Microsoft teat? It makes me sick.
Update: Sigh. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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now i am forced to eat street vendor sausages

6 December 2007

Before hockey, Jacob went to pick me up a burrito from El Pelon and found it boarded up. Apparently there was a fire there this morning. I love that place — when Ximian was in the Landmark Center we would eat there four times a week. Jacob led in the burrito club [...]

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