Stefan: Awesome to hear you were pushing GNOME at Linuxtag. For what it is worth, the answer I usually give when asked the difference between GNOME and KDE (for users) is simplicity- compare, for example, nautilus’s right-click ‘burn to CD’ for an iso with the incredibly powerful but difficult to use k3b, some simple preferences [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Tue, 07 Mar 2006
07-Mar-06Mon, 06 Mar 2006
07-Mar-06Spent the weekend in Miami, talking over my future with my parents (who despite it all are pretty decent advisors) and getting a touch of a sunburn. The biggest goal of the weekend was to de-stress- so I continued to read Getting Things Done, which so far has just been really dead on about my [...]
Thu, 02 Mar 2006
03-Mar-06Good things:
Getting a totally surprise birthday gift from a good friend.
Krissa’s mom gave me a great-looking book for my birthday, which I expect perhaps I’ll send it to Todd when I’m done.
When I get off the plane tomorrow night, it’ll be 70-some degrees, instead of the teens it has been all week.
General gripes:
My computer was [...]
Thu, 02 Mar 2006
02-Mar-06Wish I’d had this article my senior year, when I went AWOL on my thesis and didn’t have the guts to come back.
Wed, 01 Mar 2006
02-Mar-06A brutally long day today. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were great days- I was on a productive roll, and I knew it, so I did more and for longer than I should have, because, well, dammit, it felt good. I woke up today sort of tired already, and then, well, then webmail was down. And [...]
Wed, 01 Mar 2006
01-Mar-06Tessstting….
Wed, 01 Mar 2006
01-Mar-06Said to me at dinner last night: “There is a fine line between cynicism and bitching- you’re staying north of it.” — Rekha Murthy
Kathy Sierra is, as usual, dead on, this time talking about how dignity is overrated. I can’t wait to see her talk at GUADEC.
Spent a big chunk of yesterday at the first [...]