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Posts on ‘April 8th, 2004’

thirst for knowledge

Chris' mention of his own "nerd puberty":http://underwhelm.livejournal.com/270755.html has sent me into deep recollection of my own experimentation as a young adult. In that time of my life, there was very little that I did that wasn't a quest for more knowledge — pure experimentation in an effort to learn about myself, my world, and human [...]

division

In a perfect world, this site would have four sections: "technology, electronics and programming", "personal", "photography, poetry and art", "day to day journal (I went to the dentist, my cat pooped, etc)".
It doesn't. Some day it will, when I have found or written software that works that way in a fashion I can appreciate.
For [...]

textile: an apology to Dean Allen

I use "bBlog":http://bblog.com/ (heavily modified) to power this site. It came with the option of using "textile":http://textism.com/tools/textile/ to format my posts, which I recently started using. However, I found that much of the stuff in the documentation of this tool just plain didn't work. Then I realized that I was using an older version and [...]