2008

Bruce Schneier can compute discrete logarithms in polynomial time. With his fists.

There is no secure e-commerce - only stuff Bruce Schneier doesn’t want.

Day after pool football: Gah! TEH PA1N!

I’m back at school! Yay. ^_^

Currently pondering TopRuler code. Also, breakfast.

Hotel! Code in the morning.

Mapping Home & End keys to Fn+LeftArrow & Fn+RightArrow is really stupid on a laptop...

I think we’re out to Dallas to get my sister set up next. There will be WalMarting,...

In Longview using free wifi of LaQuinta next door. Wishing I’d remembered to setup SSH @ home...

Day 2: We hit some dog crossing the freeway last night (!??). Poor thing. Though it WAS crossing...

Texas LETU/UTD college extravaganza: the journey begins!

It’s “put stuff in boxen” times! Fun + excitement as James procrastinates cramming...

Wow. Did not realize how much George Carlin looked like Richard Stallman. It’s uncanny.

This toaster strudel is riddled with bullet holes! http://tinyurl.com/6mu7pc

Ugh, all these topRuler drawing functions are a mess. The leftRuler function is more more elegant...

Some guy is rewriting the Morrowind engine. Native Linux/OS X + better modding + maybe multiplayer!...

Just wiped partitions on old laptop, used Toshiba recovery disk, rebooted… and nothing...

Oh, wow. I just plugged old laptop into the router for transfer instead of doing it by wifi. MUCH...

Gabe: “There is no one else in the video game industry quite like Fatal1ty and we’re thrilled...

Wow, the new KDE actually looks pretty slick. I vaguely remember saying I’d give KDE another...

Kubuntu w/ KDE 4.1 stream of consciousness

#gsoc One week left for me. In the home stretch.

Mirror’s Edge has neato 2D animated cutscenes. 1984 meets parkour and urban-ninjaism! Huzzah....

It’s 2:30 AM. I should probably be sleeping or something.

Currently coding intensely while tapping out a beat for my brain’s amalgamation of the...

The mainstream media just became even more irrelevant. Also, our representatives are made of win and...

Using SAMBA in Gnome over wifi is crap. Connection lag? “Error while copying [file]....

Spending inordinate amount of time reading code. :P Also, TIGsource has a demake contest. It’d...

You see, the internets are not a truck… (New router, one which actually seems to work. Yay!)

AbiWordBigChecklist

Tron 2 announced at San Diego Comic Con! Huzzah! Now, to scrounge around on YouTube for shaky...

w00t! ~1.5 weeks ago, some guy figured out a little more about the 4 year old Wine StarCraft...

DD-WRT’ed teh crap Linksys WRT54G v8 router. If this fails, we are obtaining a WRT54GL....

#gsoc I see the problem. I do not see the solution.

Christina’s laptop got here today. Decently speedy, even with Vista and low end CPU. With 9...

Hmm. My blog traffic appears to be directly related to how frequently I update. Fascinating. If only...

#gsoc I no longer understand what it going on with this function. Obviously, there is too much of...

Save coinage on your semesterly educational...

About the Facebook redesign

The new Facebook layout is up! http://www.new.facebook.com

Sonic Science

Working on right to left page tiling in AbiWord. If you can’t read this, rejoice! If you can...

Saw Dark Knight earlier today. It was quite good, quite dark, and took itself quite seriously.

Sisters are playing the NUMA NUMA song the piano downstairs. It is, of course, dancing time.

#gsoc Wow, the end is in sight for my project. Polish up drawing, implant right to left pages, and...

Wait… it’s Wednesday?

Summer of Code II: Code Harder

Why is the first featured blog on the front page of Wordpress.com horribly antisemitic? Tasteless.

Everyone makes mistakes. I just make… a lot of them. In rapid sucession.

Wow, I’m glad we ordered the laptops yesterday. Mine has an estimated ship date of 8-1. Ouch!...

Was the last voter out of Gwinnett County’s 97th district facilities. Huzzah.

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

Laptops have been successfully ordered! The secret to Dell’s website is to hit stop and...

“I think in a very real sense “pretty” is the future…” —Mark...

http://yesnoworld.org

I remain unimpressed with ZoneAlarm

To fix “Fontconfig error: “~/.fonts.conf”, line 1: not well-formed (invalid...

Freedom of speech FTW! http://letourcongresstweet.org/ #LOCT08

ANOTHER thunderstorm? The weather hates programmers right now.

Microsoft reported to be female

Top 5 needed Nerfs for Starcraft 2

Looking for laptops! 2gig RAM, 120gig HD, Intel GMA x3100, dualcore CPU, 1+ year warranty and a...

Infinite 2D square grid of resistors

Currently planning on celebrating independence day by going to a LAN party. Explosives might be...

#gsoc Blarg. Most of the issues I’m fixing right now are turning out to be *my* code. A...

So, http://identi.ca as an open source Twitter. Or something. All you have to do is license all your...

How to write a movie | News | guardian.co.uk...

Wow. Neat technology, scary possible applications....

TV Classics on CBS

googlepagesftpd - Google Code

I’m back on the grid. Yay! Also, ZAP is a massive time waster.

Correction: I *thought* it was working. It only works for the first row of pages. The thing taunts....

Anatomy of my Desktop | Paintbits - Life in...

Recent codes - RefactorMyCode.com

#gsoc w00t! Mouse selection for text now works on horizontal pages in AbiWord. On to the selection...

Linksys tech support told me that using static IPs are a workaround for my WRT54G lockup issue. Not...

THIS is why user-generated content on Amazon is so great. http://tinyurl.com/3qnd9a

Why must every other episode of Doctor Who contain zombies? It was great the first three times, but...

*Another* thunderstorm? Man, I don’t remember them coming with nearly this frequency in TX....

“Innovation”

Firefox 3 Memory Usage « pavlov.net

Mr. de la Vega: Then my grandmother came… She said, “…You’ve got to get an...

Also, I *still* haven’t figured out why the lower margin is missing. It’s something...

Blah. Spent the entire day staring at a new section of code. To be fair, I did the same thing when I...

In which I become a terrible diplomat

Woot! This tool completely wiped out .NET, allowing me to reinstall. Looks like smooth sailing from...

Windows XP updates kb110806, kb929300 & kb928366 fail to install and all .NET apps crash. Ideas?...

At *exactly* 8:00 pm, NetworkManager died on both Linux computers connected to the same wifi...

Best Ubuntu review *ever* http://tinyurl.com/3z9wu8

We are now just that much closer to my dream of a modern city with trees and vines growing all over...

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Cat puts Japan rail...

xpra – Parti – Trac

Everyone reading this needs to investigate The Shakespeare Programming Language immediately...

What part of the phrase, “Lets get Matthew a flamethrower for his birthday!” sounds like...

The original Indiana Jones: Otto Rahn and the...

Latest Arch Linux kernel update (2.6.25) appears to solve all the problems I had with sound skipping...

In other news, Twitter has issues when there is heavy database usage. Robert Scoble offended.

In which I draw a line on some screenshots

Main Page - Synfig Animation Studio

I am officially envious of those who have the privilege of going to AlllThingsD. Guitar Hero?...

Well, technically it’s not Wednesday...

Corrupting youngling with Python. Soon, she’ll be… crap. I have no idea why she’d...

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL 2!

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL 2! :-D

Progress!

Upon viewing of episodes one and two, several members of family have suddenly become rabid Doctor...

7 second Linux boots to desktop! Too cool. Open source: http://texasflood.resulinux.com/ Closed...

#gsoc AbiWord multipage feature: behold my magnificent progress! *ducks* http://tinyurl.com/5lyh84

Windows on the OLPC XO

Some PC are more evil than they initially...

Team Fortress is fun. I just wish I didn’t get motion sickness from FPS so easily. Battlefield...

“Encryption Chip Will End Piracy”, Says Atari Founder http://tinyurl.com/5bxnwh

“Trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.” Bruce Schneier

DUDE! I don’t use “awesome” unless something is, but GDB is a literal answer to prayer. That’s...

Somewhere, for some reason, something is making AbiWord crash. I have the comfort of knowing it’s...

Somewhere, for some reason, something is making AbiWord crash. I have the comfort of knowing it’s...

Attention populous! Can’t you see?! Global warming is causing oil shortages!

Twitter is rather unreliable. I’ll post at geckostatus.wordpress.com when Twitter is down and try to...

Twitter is rather unreliable. I’ll post …: Twitter is rather unreliable. I’ll post a.....

OLPC unveils first prototype of XO 2.0 -...

Alex Hioreanu: Two letter Unix commands

Alex Hioreanu: AHWM: ?WM

Considering Twitter’s uptime, the definition of “twittery” is especially ironic.

Jetpack Brontosaurus (Public Alpha)

The 2008 Google Summer of Code: 21 Projects...

“We all suggest game ideas, and we criticize them furiously… It’s a very...

http://tinyurl.com/57xj9x

Dual monitor setup: obtained! Space to work is good. Already, I see how useful a third would be....

Firefox 3.0 RC1 fixes gmail scrolling issue, does nothing to improve scrolling on Twitter.

Lackadaisy

Shave and a haircut. Several people appear to percieve this as an improvement.

GPU Gems - Foreword

How to get a taskbar like XFCE’s flat thing in Gnome: Set panel background to Opaque and color...

2) Well, this is frustrating. Still trying to make stuff display diff, but all that’s...

1) Ok, focus. Lots of code, but just work on draw function. Make small changes, then run to see...

James vs. Google Summer of Code. It’s officially started and I need to show progress within a...

Ok, this is ridiculous. I ducktaped a shell of aluminum foil around one of the router’s...

Horrible creation sitting next to my desk. CPU: 800MHz. RAM: 128mb. Video card: 256mb AGP NVDIA...

In addition, the stupid DSL “modem” overheated 3 times today. Not having a great day.

And then, in a stroke of genius, James moved the motherboard of his 900MHz secondary machine to a...

Summer Day Two: slow decent into madness

XGen Studios - Online Flash Games - Dino Run:...

Gamble your life away in ZT Online

Networking is a severe pain in the neck. The pretty plastic box with antennas isn’t suposed to...

Plugged In Online

Riverfold Software - Wii Transfer

This is going to be interesting. My only source of internet (wifi, needed for summer job), cuts out...

Adobe to Publish Flash File Format Specs -...

AN AUDIOBLOGGING MANIFESTO

Cheap gamer alert: Team Fortress 2 free weekend!

Teh programming languages final approacheth! Cram, student! Cram like the wind! Not that you...

Arugh. Lots of finals in short succession == pain.

Interview with Donald Knuth

The Future Of Apple Is In 1960s Braun: 1960s...

1am box run! Cardboard-only dumpsters are wonderful things. Except for that box with a ham in it....

Dang, operating systems is hard to study for. There’s just so much of it. At least my other...

Facebook Chat

Skillet was amazing! Also, I’m pretty sure my range of hearing has gone down several notches.

Ok, seriously? Less than 48 hours before a Skillet concert in an amazing facility five minutes away...

Awesome answered prayer: I have a job doing work on a Google Summer of Code project. :-D

Google summer of code application results in an hour or two. The suspense!

My server app is looping and waiting for more clients. There’s no loop there. Gah! I’ve...

In Which James Embraces Consumerism

All the freshmen think that dead week isn’t assignments. Hah! It’s about being half dead...