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• Taking liberal arts classes because in someone's opinion that's somehow supposed to make me more of a person.
• Hearing from every one of my professors that their class is not only directly relevant to my life, but extremely important and that I'll never forget it.
• Caring about ...

All in all this was a pretty good week. My new job has been a lot of fun and it feels good to finally have a job where my skills are being used. The team has been very welcoming and are fun to work with.

My computer is back alive ...

There are many established CSS layouts for doing a three-column website. They seem to work pretty well. Perhaps the most popular is the Faux Columns technique.

At work we are working on an internal site that requires three columns (or to be more precise, up to two sidebars). I have ...

I stumbled across this bit of Apple awesomeness today. If you look at the huge splash image, you'll note this text to the right of the mouse:

Touch-sensitive technology detects right and left click.

Oh? I'm sorry, I was under the impression that you manipulated mice with telepathy ...

As expected, the hacking on Tursiops continued most of last week. I'm a little late getting a release out there, but here it is. The archive contains two folders, one for i386 machines and one for amd64. The copy of Tursiops in each is identical, but the glue library ...

I wrote a while ago about a project I had started to develop a universal trainer for Linux. I've been intentionally delaying the public release because I wrote it as one of my first C# projects and the codebase was less than maintainable, and probably had a lot of ...

One of the things I do miss about Windows is the abundance of universal trainers for it. If you don't know what a trainer is, it's a program that writes over the memory of another process, typically a game, to confuse the program into doing something it wouldn ...

I've been working with several Banshee people this week and we finally got my patch committed. All this patch does is provide a managed event that acts as a PCM and spectrum data source. While simple, it is a required building block for the upcoming OpenVP extension.

Right now ...

No turning back now. VandalSniper revision 11 has been released on Wikipedia. In addition, I am now tracking changes to the source tree with Subversion, which is what gives each release of VandalSniper its version number. I decided to number the releases with just the Subversion repository revision to simplify ...

I spent much of the today integrating SmartIrc4net with VandalSniper. No, VandalSniper doesn't let you chat on IRC now. It connects to the Wikimedia IRC server and joins the Wikipedia "recent changes" channel, which gets spammed by a bot every time any change is made to Wikipedia.

Which means ...