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Recently Erica has become very interested in all things astronomy. We took her to the library and picked up Charlie Brown’s Encyclopedia of Earth and Space – it’s a pretty large book filled with the state of the art science…
So, very rarely I need to change the line endings for a large set of files scattered across a bunch of directories. Sometimes there are few enough files that I just do it manually, but today I really wanted to…
As I’ve been putting my dev environment back together on Leopard, I’ve been finding all kinds of things that don’t quite work right – see my earlier post on MySQL. The latest problem I’ve found occurs when attempting to gem…
So, I finally took the plunge and installed Leopard on my MacBook Pro – I figured that by waiting I would avoid some of the icky problems that sometimes crop up with new OS releases. Unfortunately, I did not avoid…
Ugh. Birthday time again. At least the pain of turing 31 is to be offset by the relative joy of receiving doodads from folks who care about me. 🙂 MOTOROKR S9 Wireless Headphones (I really want these things…) Leatherman Skeletool…
I recall a certain professor of mine proclaimed: "Computers are dumb, and programmers are lazy" I’ve since come to call this the golden rule of programming – (technicalities about how this is actually 2 rules left aside…) At the time,…
Some time ago, Christine posted a note in her blog about our piano ordeal. To sum up, we ordered a piano in June of this year from the folks at the Piano Superstore. Normally I would not consider purchasing something…
I typically am not a horribly vocal person when it comes to politics and current affairs – heck, I don’t even watch much TV. I get my news online or on the radio when driving to and from work. However,…
I found this via a quick note that Hans wrote in his blog, but found it to hit the mark so astonishingly well that I learned quite a bit about myself, and about how patient my wife must be with…
I’ve actually had a bit of a hard time coming up with items for my list this year – but here is the list, such as it is (All links are to provide a general idea, unless otherwise noted): Large…
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