Like the new look? I saw Shades of Gray at the Sandbox Design Competition and I thought that it would be a nice addition to the site.
I’ll be upgrading the blog to Wordpress 2.6 soon, so don’t be surprised if things look funny sometimes in the next day or two.
(And with this, I have a chance of keeping at least one post on our front page! And there was not much rejoicing.)
Update: Actually, I’m done, I think. It went [...]
I haven’t shown anybody, and I do mean anybody, my NaNoWriMo novel yet. It needs a lot of work. But I did Wordle it, if you’re curious.
As if you were interested (I know a couple of you are, at least), I upgraded TOOT to WordPress 2.5. It’s nice, overall. The only major functionality I think I lost was Wavatars, and to be honest, while on a mostly guy-oriented site like Shamus Young’s you can get away with people having [...]
I’ve had three computer displays fail me (on three separate computers, in two locations) in the last three weeks. My main display at home died yesterday; my laptop screen quit working last week, and my backup monitor died a few weeks ago. This is frustrating. I may be reduced to Twittering my [...]
Obviously the blog has changed its look a bit. My biggest two problems are:
The information that came with the “asides” is gone. So far I’ve had trouble getting it back.
My tables look terrible; the borders have disappeared. I can’t find this in the CSS yet, so I’m not sure why this is [...]
Apparently, this is what happens when people spend a lot of time with Line Rider (here’s the one I played back in the day, and here’s the current version):
Line Rider ‘Transcendental™’ by TechDawg from TechDawg on Vimeo.
Just… wow. HT: Shamus Young.
Possibly one of the best funny XKCDs ever.
The Doctor Who Christmas special this year pulled in its biggest numbers since 1979, which means that it even beat out the episode “Rose,” the first of the new series. One source said that it will play in the US in “early 2008″ but I don’t believe it for a minute.
Sandbox 1.2 is out, [...]
I have installed Shamus Young’s Wavatar plugin. If you have a Gravatar, it will use that instead. If you don’t, it will generate a Wavatar for you based on your email address.
Mine is incredibly ugly.
Comment below if you want to see what yours would look like. Theoretically, they should be the same [...]
Forgive a little geeking out, but there is now a fully-redundant — and I do mean “fully,” as in “you can take a hammer to one of the motherboards or just yank a RAM chip and it will survive and stay up” — Linux server. The more things change, the more they stay the [...]
Mark Pilgrim: The Future of Reading (a play in six acts).
Interesting, if potentially scary stuff.
On a slightly related note, I’m fascinated with radiology as a medical specialty. However, it’s a difficult specialty to enter, and I’m sure I don’t have the intellectual chops for it.
Let’s try typing something. This is fairly pleasant. It will be hard to get used to not using Emacs keys, though. The LCD display seems slow from this angle, but this is most likely the angle I’d be using on the bus, so I guess this is all right.
I can read it [...]
Neatorama links to a picture of the Mac II Couch. Here’s the original site. I worked there while that was being constructed. I always wondered what happened to that thing. I assume that it went to the last owners of the store, before they disappeared. (The current macstore.com domain is [...]
I do strange things sometimes to keep my brain from turning into mush when I have to concentrate a lot on something.
Cut and paste this into Emacs (21.3 or later) and evaluate it to see what I mean. This is something to answer the question, “What comes next in the series 1, 11, 21, [...]
From In the Beginning was the Command Line, but I found it via Tim Bray:
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it [...]
Picking up the meme from Jeff who got it from Frugal for Life, here is the free software I use everyday:
Emacs. Bar none, this is the most useful computer program I have ever used. I use it for statistics analysis, webpage development, computer programming, calendaring, email, Bible study, network administration, and more. [...]
I just got this from a “Unix guru” tip list. How to copy a number of lines from one file to another using vi, the standard Unix/Linux editor:
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