Monthly Archives: February 2006

grumpy

It was a beautiful day outside today, and I’m getting really freakin’ grumpy tonight. First I spent 30 minutes driving around Capitol Hill, looking for a place to park so that Karen and I could get a bite and chat … Continue reading

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Things that make you go “huh”

Well, it seems that my random “Shut up about the damn squares” paid off. That superbowl pool (first one I ever entered) seems to have made me a few dollars. I thought at first that they were all pulling my … Continue reading

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Django and darwinports

I was pounding away at the basics of Django tonight, and got myself terribly confused when I ran into a new error when attempting to set up the basic django databases (using django-admin.py init). It had worked previously, but tonight … Continue reading

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The Sun! (and other sunday notions)

Woke up this morning to a sunny day. That’s damned impressed compared to what we’ve been having here in Seattle for the past month. I had become used to significantly more “sun breaks” during the cloudy times than we received … Continue reading

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windstorm

The wind has been howlin’! We’ve been having 30MPH winds, gusting up to 75MPH (!) in some places. Its causing enough havoc around the house that I’m sure it is going to be a delight all over Seattle. Oversaturated ground … Continue reading

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Twisted

I think something maybe snapped inside my head. Somewhere deep down, a “cthunk” or something. Nothing terribly obvious to anyone outside… because I was reading some documentation on Twisted, and it suddenly all made perfect sense. I’m not sure why … Continue reading

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Ubuntu

I’ve been doing more with VMWare lately, and in the midst of generating (and breaking) various Microsoft win32 images, I snagged a copy of the Ubuntu image and started playing with it. The whole VMWare Player free application has made … Continue reading

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I’m with Wolf…

Ah, good lord Microsoft! – I’m with Wolf here – WTF?! Stop hurting the UI. You can do better than this. Shoot – Wolf’s right on the money, you’re making Metal look good. And THAT is hard!

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