Tuesday, November 27, 2007
It's snowing!
At least it is here on my blog.
Just a post to update links on the left. Now go read xkcd. All of it. And make sure to read the mouseovers, they are often the best part.
Current Music: "Self-Conclusion" - The Spill Canvas
Links of the Day: This bug is why you often can't read the full mouseover text on xkcd without doing a right-click/properties. Sad how long it has taken to be fixed.
The origin of emoticons... everything comes from somewhere, I guess. :-)
Just a post to update links on the left. Now go read xkcd. All of it. And make sure to read the mouseovers, they are often the best part.
Current Music: "Self-Conclusion" - The Spill Canvas
Links of the Day: This bug is why you often can't read the full mouseover text on xkcd without doing a right-click/properties. Sad how long it has taken to be fixed.
The origin of emoticons... everything comes from somewhere, I guess. :-)
Labels: blog
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Yay work
nerd it up
Been doing some cool stuff at work lately. First have been learning how to script Ubuntu installations using Debian Installer preseeds. Pretty awesome stuff, and way better than Fedora. Also have been learning about profiling using OProfile and IBM's Visual Performance Analyzer. Very cool to be able to actually see where programs spend their time.
I just checked out Eclipse for the first time yesterday and I'm pretty impressed. I know a lot of Java people have been using it for years now, but since I really only did C programming in my upper-division CPE classes, I never had a need for much more than a text editor and a makefile. I loaded up the C and Ruby environments, and both seem pretty cool. I have usually avoided IDE's for programming because I always feel like they're getting in my way, but Eclipse seems to be a reasonable balance of useful tools and letting you do your work.
Have been testing out some really cool hardware lately, though can't go into too much detail. Most of the people on my team are software guys, so I'm happy to test out the cool, new hardware. :)
Other than that, just keeping busy playing ogame (3 attempts and still no moon!), reading the tale of 1337 on xkcd and trying not to miss anything major on osnews. Today Jen and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. I brought home roses and we went to Del Taco. Man are we awesome or what?
Current Music: Cake - Love You Madly (stuck in my head)
Link of the Day: If I know you I'm sure you've already seen Kenya . Now see Brazil! Marcos says's that's pretty much how it is there. Forget Norway.
Random Picture:
Also awesome: (thanks for the link, Matt)
Been doing some cool stuff at work lately. First have been learning how to script Ubuntu installations using Debian Installer preseeds. Pretty awesome stuff, and way better than Fedora. Also have been learning about profiling using OProfile and IBM's Visual Performance Analyzer. Very cool to be able to actually see where programs spend their time.
I just checked out Eclipse for the first time yesterday and I'm pretty impressed. I know a lot of Java people have been using it for years now, but since I really only did C programming in my upper-division CPE classes, I never had a need for much more than a text editor and a makefile. I loaded up the C and Ruby environments, and both seem pretty cool. I have usually avoided IDE's for programming because I always feel like they're getting in my way, but Eclipse seems to be a reasonable balance of useful tools and letting you do your work.
Have been testing out some really cool hardware lately, though can't go into too much detail. Most of the people on my team are software guys, so I'm happy to test out the cool, new hardware. :)
Other than that, just keeping busy playing ogame (3 attempts and still no moon!), reading the tale of 1337 on xkcd and trying not to miss anything major on osnews. Today Jen and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary. I brought home roses and we went to Del Taco. Man are we awesome or what?
Current Music: Cake - Love You Madly (stuck in my head)
Link of the Day: If I know you I'm sure you've already seen Kenya . Now see Brazil! Marcos says's that's pretty much how it is there. Forget Norway.
Random Picture:
Also awesome: (thanks for the link, Matt)
