Archive for September, 2006
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Was up till 2am the other night getting my lisp environment set up and tested. I'm using emacs, slime, and SBCL on a Fedora Core 4 laptop. This produces a very nice environment to run, debug, and test lisp on.
As I mentione earlier, I've picked a little test application ...
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
Over the last year, I've definitely bought into the Apple product offerings hook, line, and sinker. The ipod dragged me in. Then I purchased an ibook, next an imac for the home, and now I've just upgraded to a macbook. I hate DRM, but for right now the Apple itunes ...
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
I was watching a show on NPR this weekend where they had a little spotlight on Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway. The segment showed him at work in his own little workshop tinkering with different projects. Of course the workshop that he has in his house is a ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
In working with CloudGrove, my personal search engine, I've found it necessary to take another look at how I manage the UI. The current implementation uses folders to group RSS feeds. This way it's easy to logically group feeds together. It works well for a very basic implementation, but to ...
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
It's been awhile since I've upgraded. Figured it's about time. Don't think there were any issues with the upgrade, but I'm still poking around.
Update: Just added the akismet plugin to see how it does with comment spam. I'm actually surprised to see that I've actually got 95 posts.
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
So for an early birthday present, Jaimie and I went down to the Palo Alto Apple Store and picked up a new Macbook. White of course, it's funny how many people can't believe that Apple is charging $150 extra just to get the laptop in black. Not exactly worth it ...
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