Erlang and Clojure also tempt, but Scheme was my 2008 language, so they can wait until the next year. about 15 hours ago
Pondering what to do with my pragprog cupon. "Refactor your Wetware" looks like the winner. about 15 hours ago
For some reason cooking breakfast for dinner is way more fun than any other dishes. about 17 hours ago
@alexvollmer: TinyXP has a lot of the nasty bits removed. (I won't say *all* because it *is* still Windows.) about 19 hours ago
Got some phở at Bungie HQ and heard a bit about the development of Bungie's latest project: http://tinyurl.com/3vplun (Halo 3 Recon) about 22 hours ago
Back with the cast on; Dr. says he may stand/walk in it. What a relief--also only 3 weeks est. time to heal. about 23 hours ago
Off to the doc to get Noah's real cast. 10:21 AM October 13, 2008
Got xray images out w/ a VM, but would have preferred Wine since it doesn't subject me to the psychological trauma of the XP splash screen. 09:28 AM October 13, 2008
The error? "MSXML does not support this encoding." Hello, we're talking *images*. How hard is it to export to PDF or even JPEG anyway? 08:52 AM October 13, 2008
Hospital's XRay disc is just a bunch of .exe files that don't open in Wine. Medical technology fail. 08:44 AM October 13, 2008
Noah's getting scary good at the one-legged stand. Hope the cast he gets today can bear some weight. 08:20 AM October 13, 2008
@harrisj: hah; that's useless! 08:04 AM October 13, 2008
Last night's weird dream: they changed the Singapore train system... I got seriously lost but took some awesome photos. 07:42 AM October 13, 2008
Just watched "Double Indemnity". Excellent noir feel to it. 08:07 PM October 12, 2008
@watsonian: heh; gitk is definitely not GTK; it's just TK, which is way ancient. 06:16 PM October 12, 2008
@jackdanger: you'd probably be pretty disagreeable too if your job was to appeal to folks like that all the time. 06:34 AM October 12, 2008
Noah just pulled the Windows key off the keyboard. Attaboy! 01:50 PM October 11, 2008
I mean, I just bought a house. It doesn't even mention the interest rate or anything, just "come to our branch to pick up your [free] money" 12:43 PM October 11, 2008