Feb 2004
- Feb 2
- lily white
spill your secret to me
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creeping shadows, and the evil that lurks in the night
that makes the dogs bark in fear
with their tails between their legs
the hooded man without a face
stealing innocence - Feb 4
- oh the places you will go
because I am obsessed with maps, I find this really amusing.
· Read more… - Feb 5
- i spy
so I spent part of my weekend in nyc screwing around with b's computer, which was completely infested by spyware and viruses and all sorts of irritating, memory-consuming, surreptitiously installed programs. the computer is on the verge of complete unuseability. my advice was simply to wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows xp. this is, after all, the favorite piece of advice given by anyone who does win xp tech support. but this would require backing up the hard drive, which would inquire purchasing a hard drive, and in the freezing temperature at this time, this wasn't a palatable option.
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- URLs
I know I have way too much free time on my hands. but I am again contemplating switching blogging engines.
· Read more… - Feb 8
- ebotula
I'm not much of an IRC'er, so I don't even really know what bots are supposed to do, other than auto-replying. but this project on freshmeat.net caught my eye just with its name: Ebotula. it sounds like some novel bioweapon, a combination of Ebola and botulism. scary.
· Read more… - Feb 9
- lost (en las calles de los angeles)
what follows is an unmanageable, undecipherable piece of mind-blather that fails to encapsulate the inexplicable sense of alienation I experienced today, wandering aimlessly through the streets of the city of my birth
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- personality disorders and levels of hell
I found these tests through R's site, and this is what I got:
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- adventures with QT/Mac and KDE
I have embarked on a quest to compile KDE against QT/Mac so that I can run KDE apps natively instead of running them with X.
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- QT/Mac and arts
in the ongoing saga of getting KDE to build against QT/Mac, I have been following Ranger Rick's instructions on how to build KDE against QT/Mac yourself. the first hurdle was arts. after some kludgery, I came up with this configure command:
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- QT/Mac and kdelibs
in trying to configure kdelibs, I ran across this problem with
· Read more…net/if.h(which is, again, present in other applications being ported to OSX) - Feb 15
- QT/Mac and kdelibs (Part 2)
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- forgot something (QT/Mac and KDE cont.)
of course, to save much pain and misery, you can use the scripts provided by Ranger Rick for building KDE, which includes
· Read more…configure-kde, which will figure out the proper flags and library locations for you. He also included some patches, but I haven't gotten them to apply cleanly to the CVS versions of the kde modules. - Feb 17
- (don't) shake it like a polaroid picture (memetic backdiffusion)
A song lyric from Outkast becomes a FAQ
· Read more… - Feb 20
- the flying song
and here I thought that I've actually stopped being pessimistic.
· Read more… - Feb 21
- haunted house
I've dreamt about this before. I think it's just a manifestation of all the adventure games I used to play on my computer as a kid.
· Read more… - Feb 23
- what am I doing with my life?
I should've been asleep almost two hours ago. Instead I've been tap-tap-tapping aimlessly on this computer of mine, searching. Ah, if Google could only solve all my problems.
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