Monthly Archives: July 2008

this is just a tribute

July 30, 2008 – 10:10 pm

You know you’re using Linux too much when you get home from work and try hitting Ctrl+Alt+F1 on a Windows machine, thinking it will start a full-screen terminal session.

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…and you thought I’d quit…

July 26, 2008 – 12:55 pm

I’ve been working steadily on music for weeks now. My studio is in pieces and, due to a massive pre-moving selloff, I’m missing all of my recording equipment and roughly 70% of my synths and drum machines. However, I have stayed on track and have truly mastered one or two pieces of gear I didn’t [...]

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From lunch…

July 23, 2008 – 12:22 am

We saw this today while walking around in the Oak Park mall parking lot. Yes, it’s called Buttram. The funniest thing is that this particular dealership also used to be located on Gay St.
true story.

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Developer vs. Sysadmin

July 13, 2008 – 2:58 am

I’m curious how many other people run into these sorts of situations where you have to fight a sysadmin for a server for updates, installing packages and whatnot. In my mind, our development and production servers belong to me. I have root access via shell to the development server, which is good. I have very [...]

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Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

July 11, 2008 – 7:41 pm

It’s been a few days. Here’s the news:
1. For the sake of saving a few minutes, I wrote a script that uses khtml2png2 to take screenshots of websites. This was for our webimage portfolio and it’s not something I had to do, it’s just something I thought I would try because it would save other [...]

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@#$%!!!

July 3, 2008 – 5:23 pm

So I’ve been talking everyone’s heads off about this chat system. We tested it today and it worked. We tweaked a few things and basically celebrated the fact that it was done. I had been under this huge time crunch to get it done today.
Then we heard that we aren’t deploying it on Monday like [...]

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Something That Has Changed My Life!

July 2, 2008 – 7:40 am

The title here is pretty serious. What I’m about to tell you has really changed my life for the better. Are you ready? Here it is:
I stopped using an alarm clock several months ago.
I don’t mean that I used my cell phone as an alarm instead, or that I found some other way to artificially [...]

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get thee behind me, failure!

July 1, 2008 – 7:38 pm

I’ve finished the chat system. For now. I’m really feeling good about that.
I know nobody else understands my excitement. When I first heard about this project in April, I had the impression it was going to be the one dreamkiller…the project I just couldn’t figure out. But hey, I survived!

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