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Archive for January, 2004

30Jan04

!!! WARNING !!! GEEK ENTRY AHEAD !!!
I just wrote code that loads a JPEG image into a GTK pixel buffer and then encodes it into an Xml image format of my creation. That’s right. XML image format. Fear the disk usage:
5756 Jan 29 [...]

Homepage Hacking

29Jan04

Not a lot of news in the past week. I finally got around to upgrading this page, integrating it with my picture gallery and wiki, by putting links to the latest additions from those sections on this page. I also have this sleek new black and grey look going on. It is [...]

22Jan04

I have been curious about how Google’s index has been growing over the past few years. I suggested to the Zeitgeist people that they add this information to their next report, but they don’t seem to have done so yet. So I decided with the help of the Way Back Machine I [...]

FeckFeckFeck

15Jan04

In the category of Google Searches That Make Me Happy: click me

Vermin

15Jan04

I had a wierd dream. I was trying to catch vermin, as is often the goal around here, and I happened to see a rabbit and a squirrel right in front of me. I reached down and grabbed the rabbit by the scruff of its neck in one hand, and then slowly reached [...]

Unexpected gift

12Jan04

Wow. I just got a call from Cornell, and they said I was on their “short list” and that they’d like me to come up for their recruiting weekend February 6th and 7th. I am just dumbfounded. Cornell? Me? Recruiting? What? Ph.D.? Now?

I have updated Cornell’s status [...]

What the world needs now… is a better screensaver.

11Jan04

I just got an idea for the Best. Screensaver. Ever. It bes thusly:

If your pointer lies motionless for a certain period of time, a little animated troll would sort of poke its head in from offscreen, and then make a b-line for your cursor. It would appear as if it [...]

Hacking

09Jan04

Successfully got Xsvg and all of it’s nice libraries to build on Fedora. Submitted the required patches upstream (mailing list). It seems like Xsvg wants to end up as part of the main XFree86 distribution, in which case all of these changes will be redundant, but in the meantime it should be useful [...]

Lifetime financial planning

06Jan04

Based on my anticipated lifetime salary, if I put away 20% of my post-tax income religiously and invest intelligently, I will have $156,827 on my 40th birthday, and will clear $1,000,000 at the age of 60.

If I put away 50% of my post-tax income every month until I have my first child, around [...]

Done and done.

06Jan04

Jury duty for me this morning was excellent. I spent the better part of the morning reading, was released just after noon, and will be receiving a $20 reimbursement for expenses, which in my case were only time. Considering I likely would have spent the morning asleep, the situation on balance was a [...]


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