Day 1, Finishing Season

I wrote some scripts to reorganize the index for the book our research group is nigh upon finishing (as in, it is about to go to print). I spent the afternoon revising the literature review. This will continue for several days, along with the other revision that is ongoing.

I declared it to be “Finishing Season” not . . . → Read More: Day 1, Finishing Season

Geoff calls it “Finishing Season”

That’s it.

I’m tired of it.

This week, something gets done. I think I’ll just crush through what remains, and see if I can’t get a complete draft by the end of the week. It might be too much to ask, but I’ve got to try something to kick my own ass into being done.

To do:

Finish revision of . . . → Read More: Geoff calls it “Finishing Season”

Stress

I can tell that too many things are causing stress in my life when I lose the ability . . . → Read More: Stress

Virtual Machines

One thing I really like about the x86 architecture is the availability of so many cool virtualization technologies.

At work, I run Debian. I don’t even have a graphical interface configured; all the machine does is provide a place to store files, host databases, execute long-running processes—it’s a server, essentially. However, it is a 2.4 GHz Penium . . . → Read More: Virtual Machines

Testing from Flock

Flock is a new web browser that appears to be based on the Firefox codebase. Among other things, it comes with a little weblogging tool. At this point, it doesn’t seem to allow me to assign categories, but it does use tags… another weblogging tool/fad/thing I simply haven’t taken the time out of my real work . . . → Read More: Testing from Flock

Raise hell

Pulled from Don Hopkins’s weblog:

RMS Essay: Come Celebrate the Joy of Programming, with the World's Most Unbureaucratic Computers.:

I also quickly manifested a lack of proper reverence for authority. The whole center had been denied access to the IBM computer in the building, and we had to use slow telephone connections to the Cambridge Scientific Center. One . . . → Read More: Raise hell

Bedtime Haiku

Carrie sent me this piece of poetry that she wrote just now:

On bedrock OS,
Gossamer applications.
Word has crashed again.

Sad, sad Microsoft Word running on OS X… . . . → Read More: Bedtime Haiku

CDBaby and Magnatune… why don’t they team up?

I don’t understand why CDBaby and Magnatune don’t team up.

CDBaby is an online record store that sells albums by independent musicians; the musicians take a significant percentage of the sale, unlike traditional CD sales through retail vendors.

Magnatune provides a similar service; they market and license music by some excellent artists, at incredible prices (read: my student . . . → Read More: CDBaby and Magnatune… why don’t they team up?

Archiving Email

How does one archive email?

Sending everything to Gmail isn’t really an option; they might pack up shop any day of the week. Sticking with one client isn’t an option, because most of them are awful. I mean, I don’t want to save things with Thunderbird, or Pine, or MH, or Apple’s Mail.app, or any other tool . . . → Read More: Archiving Email

The danger of two Gmail accounts

I have a second Gmail account that I’ve never really used. I thought about using it to dump all of my email to for search and archive purposes. You know—ever email I receive, simply bounce a copy to Gmail. Something like that.

So, I logged into the account, just to see what was there. And do you . . . → Read More: The danger of two Gmail accounts