http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All Sourced: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151171&cid=12682560 http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/31/interesting-polls/ Robin Miller has posted an article to NewForge (part of OSTG) entitled "Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability"--it's a great read. :) Hat tip: IO Error http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/29/57/ [Written at 10:00 AM EDT] Hi All! We made it across the country in 4 days (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). We left Oregon at 2PM PDT on Tuesday and made it almost to the Utah border (we slept in a so-called "cow pasture"--BLM land with cows on it). On Wednesday we ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/28/hello-from-rhode-island/ ...here are photos of The Taming of the Shrew: http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/spanish/photos/ The images are displayed through a PHP script that I wrote. If anyone else want's it, just let me know and I'll email it to you (taj at wildgardenseed dot com). The play went really well (considering we had only 5.25 practices)--really, really ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/23/as-promised/ We got back from the OOTFA Fiddle Contest yesterday night (at 11:45 PM). Kit and I placed 2nd in the twin (duet) division and then tied for 6th in the Junior division. That is, we got exactly the same score (770) (there were 5 judges). That's bizarre :). There was also a ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/22/update-on-the-ootfa-fiddle-contest/ This afternoon we'll be leaving for Salem (OR) for the State Fiddle Contest. Today (Friday) we have the twin division, and then on Saturday my brother and I be playing on the Junior division. Fiddle Contest's are fun! :) Then, on Sunday we have our Spanish play (pictures may arrive...), then ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/20/fiddle-contest-and-other-stuff-this-weekend/ (Some) of my old blog posts may be coming soon to a website near you. I found that SupremeServer (our old host) still had our MySQL databases on their server (our hosting expired in August 2004!)...sooo I may be able import them into the this database. Cool! Also, we need as ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/16/old-blog-posts/ I heard this on NPR yesterday, and Paul dug up avideo of it. Cool! Also, we got the forums setup for Autopackage, drop by! :) http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/13/self-replicating-robots/ I setup Bad Behaviour on May 1st (11 days ago), and I haven't had one trackback or comment spam yet! Yay, this rocks, thanks IO! In other news, I've been redesigning the Wild Garden Seed website using just CSS. Internet Explorer sucks! It has the worst CSS support that I've seen ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/11/11-days-without-comment-spam/ Damon's New Office http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/07/re-decorating-with-post-its/ Here's an idea for a rewrite of libdialogs). Basically, instead of relying on 2 shared library (gtkqt to enter Qt event loop, and libdialogs for C bindings for KDE dialogs), all dialog work is done through D-BUS to a dialogs dæmon that would handle displaying dialogs and returning file names. This ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/06/libdialogs-rewrite/ I just made a new Firefox autopackage (here). It implements making Firefox the default browser for Gnome and KDE (as well as rolling back the changes on uninstall to what they were before). It actually wasn't too hard, just work (finding out how KDE and Gnome set their default browser). Also, ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/05/new-firefox-autopackage/ ...you have 28 tabs open at once (Screenshot)...sick huh? Anyways, I didn't like the new HHG2G :( (Listen Here) http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/03/how-you-know-if-youre-addicted-to-firefox/ BBC Radio 4 will release the first installment of the Quandary Phase of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy to day! 6:30PM UK Time (+1GMT), 10:30AM PDT. When it's on, find it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4.shtml?fm Cool! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/03/hitchhikers-guide-quandary-phase-today/ Case 1:05-cv-00618-JDT-TAB [PDF] I quote (typo's are intentional--they're in the PDF, emphasis it mime) COMPLAINT The Defendant FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION INC. has entered into contracts and otherwise conspired and agreed with individual software authors and commercial distributors of commodity software products such as Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. to artificially fix the ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/02/fsf-sued-for-software-price-fixing/ The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) Zero: The biography of a dangerous idea (Charles Seife) The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (Will Cuppy) These are all great books, and you should read them. You can never catch a tortise on a piece of paper. --Taj's Interpretation of Zeno's Paradox http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/02/three-books-everyone-should-read/ It's been a while since I've posted a "What's going on" post here, so I think I'll fix that right now. Today I modified the blog theme a little bit (added the "Little Buttons", "Syndicate", and "Code is Poetry" sections) as well as made this monster valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (WordPress ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/01/whats-up/ I just setup Bad Behaviour for Wordpress to try and keep people from comment/trackback spamming my blog without having to write any nasty image verification code (image verification doesn't work for trackback, anyway). The solution: Bad Behavior. It looks at the HTTP headers of people visiting your blog and then ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/05/01/bad-behaviour/