Here I thought Mariano was just a humble terminal hacker, and it turns out he has a very serious career. Pretty cool.
I’m using monkey-journal to post on my new blog for the time being. It is basically uber-sweet. Sadly, don’t have it running on my laptop; may install jhbuild there just for the monkey-journal/pygtk stack.
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After a long but productive day at work, spent the evening with Joe and Robert, doing our fantasy NFL league draft. I knew I should have avoided the thing last year, but now it has sort of sucked me in.
Got home a couple of hours ago, and finished Absolution Gap. It was, as you sort [...]
Hacked bugzilla for fun for the first time in ages tonight, and javascript for the first time ever. Mostly successful, though sadly the javascript I used as the starting point (and which is 98% of the code ;) is GPL, which means it probably can’t see the light of day in bugzilla, which is MPL. [...]
Played around with blogging on my web server tonight for a bit; took a while to get myself satisfied with the stylesheet stuff, but will be very nice to be able to style it myself, and more importantly use image tags :) Not sure if I want to try to figure out how to double [...]
Had an all day meeting today about the possibility of moving the whole company to bugzilla- the first of four days of such meetings. It was really a blast- very cool to discuss the relative merits of closed and open bug systems, and how bugzilla could be made feature-competitive with more advanced closed systems. I [...]
I think basically the reason I continue paying as much as I do to live where I do is that on a beautiful day, I can walk from here to Darwin’s and then to the river, enjoying a great sandwich on beautiful grass (and on Sundays in the summer, without even the noise of cars.) [...]
The first details of the Rio Karma’s replacement are finally leaking. Having been burned once… ugh, I’ll probably go get burned again. This time with a better warranty ;) (And a 16-bit color screen?) Then again, the release date is now looking like Spring 2005. Not sure if I can wait that long, even if [...]
James Boyle, of the law school at my fine Alma Mater, had a fun Financial Times article on the iPod/Real thing last week. My favorite line:
If I want to use Real’s service to download music to my own device, where’s the breaking and entering?… So leaving aside the legal claim for a moment, where is [...]
The ever-brilliant Ben Hyde has a brief discussion of one community’s attempts to avoid DOS-by-newbie. Interesting. I doubt we could do a FAQ trial-by-fire, but still interesting to ponder the problem. (Not that we’ve been DOS’d by newbies lately, but I can see parallels in the volume of in/outflux in bugzilla.) Ben also has a [...]
As some of you may know, I’m a sportsaholic; I’ll watch virtually any athletic competition that has reasonably objective rules. For obvious reasons, this has been a good weekend for that- Krissa and I ended up watching nearly 15 TV-hours of sports yesterday (with long pauses for dinner and such, then skipping through ads with [...]