Month: 2005/02
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2005 February 28
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1.21 quickiewatts?! (What the hell is a quickiewatt?!?)
The Back to the Future trilogy is, hands down, a work of genius. And I was overjoyed to watch the whole run on TNT this weekend while I worked on yet another book chapter. Someone needs to buy me the complete BTTF trilogy. Or, maybe I need to buy it, once my head bobs above water. Why is pasting plain old unformatted text in Microsoft Word considered a "special" paste action? And, if Word helpfully extends my selection range one more time, I'll shoot it. I thought I turned that damn feature off. Have I mentioned that I hate Microsoft Word? I'm up to about 175 pages across 8 chapters written, and I find myself gazing wistfully at TextEdit. After wrestling for months with libxml2 for FeedReactor, and all the issues I had getting the Python bindings compiled and working on Mac OS X, just so I could play around with XPath and some decently fast XML handling... I discover that 4Suite installs like budda on Linux, Windows, and OS X, and seems pretty fast. I've only used it for XPath so far, but I'm curious to try out what it does for XSLT. Your moment of webcomic zen: [ ... 329 words ... ]
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2005 February 25
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Stop. Quickie time.
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2005 February 24
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Too lazy to think of a quick title
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Ancient software and programmer-archaeologists
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2005 February 23
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Shallow thoughts of the day
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FeedReactor and Ajax musings
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Faster than a speeding bullet point
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2005 February 22
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Micro-quickies
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2005 February 20
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Sunday Night Quickies
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2005 February 19
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Tonight's Items of Little Import
Here goes nothing--atomic bullet points to power, quickie turbines to speed... Pyjamarama is my song of the evening. I've gotten hooked on [Vim][vim], having defected from [xemacs][xemacs], because I like keeping more of my user interface in my headspace and [adopting modes as fighting stances][vimstances]. [vimstances]: http://fallenearth.org/blogs/caiuschen/archives/2005/02/15/foot_pedals_in_vi_vs_emacs/index.php [vim]: http://www.vim.org [xemacs]: http://www.xemacs.org I haven't been paying attention to my web stats. Does anyone out there actually read and enjoy my links, since I split them out of the main blog? (Just curious.) I've been thinking lately that my innate fashion instincts come from the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who. Thankfully, I have a girlfriend who helps dress me. The hair's still getting pretty unruly, though. Quick News is the NetNewsWire of the Palm OS world. It can even download podcasts! And it's only $15 bucks! Primus says: Funny thing about weekends when you’re unemployed. They don’t quite mean so much, Except you get to hang out with all your working friends. [ ... 412 words ... ]
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Writing No Things of Epic Import
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