I just decided to make myself a bowl of yogurt+granola+strawberries, and I noticed 4-5 of the strawberries had spots of mold on them.
“DAMN YOU, DRISCOLL’S!”
was my immediate reaction. However, on reflection I realized that everything is as it should be.
After all, does the cheetah eat the entire every gazelle before the entire herd “goes [...]
Archive for July, 2006
Strawberries
31Jul06Progress
31Jul06Yesterday I did, in fact, manage to get my “final” mockups finished, and I figured out what was holding my code back (I had to add the header file I created to the makefile template thingy). And I finished before midnight, so… two snaps for transparency.
I also got a lot of great advice from [...]
Transparency
30Jul06I haven’t been very good about hitting my Summer of Code milestones over the last few weeks, so I’m going to try to be a little more transparent, and put daily goals on my blog. That way, if I fall short of those goals, anyone who reads this thing will know it. [...]
The power of admission
29Jul06I was just rereading my earlier post in which I admitted my “infatuation” with the OLPC project. The fact that I consider myself “infatuated” is a strike against my objectivity. You can’t be objective if you’re in love, after all.
But there’s some power in admission here. By admitting my [...]
Programming for everyone
29Jul06Most people, if you tell them things like “math is fun!” or “being able to program computers is awesome,” will look at you like you’re wearing your underwear on your head.
“Sure,” they say, “if you like sitting in front of a computer screen for 18 hours a day, talking about megabytes and googlewatts and not [...]
When the truth is spoken
28Jul06“When the truth is spoken, it doesn’t need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.” -
India backs away from OLPC
27Jul06A variety of sources are
Judicial Logic
27Jul06The Washington State Supreme Court has upheld a 1998 ban on gay marriage with a 5-4 vote. From the Time article:
Justice Barbara A. Madsen, writing for a plurality of the court’s 5-4 majority, said the Washington state legislature “was entitled to believe that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples furthers procreation, essential to survival [...]
First Code
05Jul06I still have a lot of design work to do, but given that this is Summer of Code, I need to be coding too. So, I’ve been picking at the Sugar codebase and got a “Hello World” activity working:
It’s not much, but my Summer of Code mentor, Robert Staudinger, knows a thing or two [...]
