As a word of warning, my blog may be a bit flooded with good old “linkposts” for the next few days. The biggest reason for that is I had a few old sessionstore.js files laying around that I had saved for one reason or another with good links in them. The other main motivation is [...]
I promised to go into more detail about this yesterday and I meant it. I called my good friend Kris earlier today and filled him on my plans. Hardware purchasing plans, that is, assuming I go back to school. Kris and I are in agreement that purchasing and/or assembling new hardware is one of the [...]
Something non-techy for starters, Don Gerz has posted three separate entries about Alan Moore’s Watchmen in the last week. In two days, actually. And (perhaps due to my prodding) Kris Osterhage threw up a post mentioning his Watchmen experience among other things. It’s fun. Maybe I should try to re-read it and write a nice [...]
I hadn’t actually looked into ignoring files with Mercurial until today. You can set up a file in the root of your repository called .hgignore that will make your life a bit easier. Mercurial will read that file (which is a list of patterns in glob or regexp format) and will ignore any files that [...]
The last week has been really, really hard. Mostly because I’ve been confronted with something I hoped wouldn’t have to happen: The necessity of returning to academia. I’ve applied to a few more jobs and we’ll see what happens there. I got turned down by King & Spalding in a letter today and am going [...]
I’ve been picking up more and more Emacs and SLIME while working my way through Practical Common Lisp over the last week or two. I’m really happy with it as a work environment at this point but have tons left to learn. I haven’t even written any elisp code to script it. Of course, I [...]
I can’t believe it’s already October. It seems like only yesterday that I decided to take a break from school. For that matter, it seems like only yesterday that I became unemployed…but this was week 3 and a pleasant week it was. I’m continuing to try and buckle down and be more productive in various [...]
A lot has been happening lately but I’m keeping my head above water and presently have enough cash to make it through November. Unfortunately, I’m keeping the car though my parents are helping me out by covering car insurance. I’d like to get rid of the car but the timing isn’t right quite yet. On [...]