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A few fun things have been happening, but I've been too busy to write about them. Now that I have time, I've just finished moving into my new house for the summer and won't have Internet access until this Monday (or later if past experience on this ...

OpenVP, Banshee.

A week or two ago I was in #banshee chatting and posted a link to an album of some OpenVP screenshots. The developers were interested and asked me if I would try embedding OpenVP in Banshee. I have since submitted a patch that adds an interface that PlayerEngine ...

I recently found my USB Bluetooth adapter and have been tinkering with using it to talk to my Palm. I've successfully configured Linux to allow PPP connections over Bluetooth, so I can sync my Palm if I don't have the cradle hooked up.

But a more interesting use ...

My web-based task manager now supports OpenID as a login mechanism. Have at it.

The cake is a lie.

The latest release of gnome-terminal has removed the ability to disable the blinking cursor, which I had previously turned off. The only way to disable it is to disable blinking cursors in all text entry widgets. For some reason I prefer the cursor in text boxes to blink, but cannot ...

I've started a web-based task manager to get some experience with Prototype. It's very fast so far and is relatively easy to build upon.

• 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 ...

This morning I got up and was going to take a hot shower. I started to take off my shirt and in so doing I must've bent my neck funny because I felt a sudden shooting pain near my left shoulder. After I recoiled, the initial sharp pain died ...

During the prayer at the end of chapel today the pastor's voice broke from emotion and she stopped abruptly mid-word. My immediate reaction was "argh, packet loss again!?"

Yeah. It's that bad.