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- Lyssa unboxing Starcraft 2 on Sunday at lunch.
At long last, Starcraft II. The front cover folds out to reveal more about the story. DVD-ROM in its sleeve and what passes for the manual. Bonus: a notepad bearing wanted
- Linux? Linux. Linux... Linux. Oh, and user interfaces.
ObDisclaimer: I don't design user interfaces for a living. Originally, I was working on a post about Linux - about why I switched to it, and pontificating about why more p
- Merry Christmas, everyone (a couple of days late, but still..)
The powers that be saw fit to give everyone at work an opportunity to go home four hours early on 24 December 2008, the better to go home and get ready for Christmas Eve.
- Remember when I said "'tis the season?"
Lyssa took sick last week. On Thursday she woke up having trouble breathing while I was in the shower, which threw our plans into a tailspin. I took a sickday and drove he
- Still catching up on last week.
Given everything happening in the days since Lyssa and I got married, I'm still catching up on lots of things, most of them work-related though there are a few things rath
- Maybe I should write about things other than myself for a while.
If you're involved in the retrocomputing or PC history scenes, chances are you've heard of double-sided floppy disks that are formatted for one system on side A and anothe
- Getting down to the wire.
Time's getting down to the wire and there's no escaping it. The wedding is now two solid months away and Lyssa and I are scrambling to get our plans in motion. Last week t
- Happy (belated) Fourth of July, everyone.
Contrary to most years, my Fourth of July weekend was far lower in impact and more relaxing this time around than it usually is. I've been running short on sleep for a whi
- I'm stuck in Tuscaloosa three million years in the future, and where the smeg did I get this traffic cone??
Well, not so much. I was hoping to riff off of a famous Red Dwarf quote or two to make this post more entertaining, but after a few revisions it's just not coming together
- When sufficiently motivated by boredom, there is no limit to what I can accomplish.
I've spent most of the day hanging out at Laurelinde's house with Lyssa and the family, and after fixing my watch fob, practising with my new fountain pen (thanks, Laureli
- The things people come up with these days...
If you've been on the Net for a while, you've probably seen buttons or tags for Digg , which is a community-based news management and relay website. The idea is that news
- So this is what a real vacation feels like. Once you get there, anyway.
On Friday afternoon, Lyssa and I spent a goodly part of the day laying around Jean's apartment to recover while she was at work. Long road trips wear me out, especially wh
- Random knowledge V.
GNU Screen makes coding so much easier: Run screen to multiplex your shell, then run a text editor in one, a debugger in another, have another shell open to compile.. no m
- Hackers: The Drinking Game
Take one drink: ...every time Dade grins. ...every time Dade yells "Sh-hit!!" ...every time someone is called "elite." ...every time Dade is shut down by Kate. ...every ti
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