I went to see my new doctor today for the first time. It was an amazing difference from my previous experience with doctors. My new doctor is so personable and reassuring. He told me that my case is not all that severe and can be controlled throughout my life. He used [...]
Just got home from going out to see The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake). Freaky. Now I have to get my butt to bed as I have to get up early to go to the doctor tomorrow morning. Sometimes I hate the fact that I require sleep.
Completely unrelated, I loved reading Nat’s [...]
Adam, Amy, Chris, and I reached the cabin around 8pm Friday. I’m really glad we followed Chris as the dirt and gravel roads in the woods were really off the beaten path and tricky to follow if you don’t know what you’re doing. The cabin was amazing. It had been constructed out [...]
This is a pretty sad state of affairs. I can’t find a single usable GNOME 2.x CD burning program. It’s things like this that keep a lot of people away from Linux. Sure most of us Linux users can use things like X-CD-Roast or the command-line utilities. I’ve been using xmms [...]
I just finished packing up my stuff. Some friends and I are heading to a cabin in the woods tomorrow after work. I can hardly wait to get away. The weather forecast looks pretty good
Tomorrow night: A few clouds. Low 42F. Winds light and variable.
Saturday: Plentiful sunshine. High 76F. Winds SW at [...]
Wanna understand this thing called “open source” that I and millions of others are talking about and that’s shaping the world in which we live? Read this article from Wired. Wired also has a great interview with Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel (the heart of the operating system I [...]
I spent some time last night at Kaldi’s reading The Silmarillion. Okay, I’ve read The Lord of the Rings a couple times, always been interested in Tolkien’s world and have appreciated the amazing beauty and completeness of it, but I have never read The Silmarillion until now. It’s brilliant. The mythology is [...]
After much frustration with PHPNuke, I finally dumped it in favour of Movable Type. I wrote some Perl scripts to convert the database tables for stories and comments to the new format. I’m still playing around with the stylesheet so the visual appearance may change a bit over the next week or so, [...]
Laura and I left town around 4:30pm on Friday. We hit some heavy traffic but managed to keep up our spirits by listening to tons of great music that Laura brought: Pink Floyd, Beatles, Norah Jones, etc. We got into town just in time to watch the Blues game with Ben and Lori. [...]
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