How do you take notes? Here’s my list of techniques in order of preference using a heuristic which is some function of efficiency, persistence, and privacy:
Full-finger-typing on a regular-size keyboard
Writing with a pen/pencil on paper
Thumb-typing on a small QWERTY keyboard
Stylus recognition on a touchscreen
Voice notes
Scoring the flesh of my forearm in Morse Code with a rusty Bowie knife
I’d like to apologize to all of the browser viewers out there who have been swallowing my uncompressed pages all this time. I just turned on the gzip option under Options > Reading in the WordPress admin panel. I also tidied up my css and the HTML markup generated by my PHP. That’s always fun…
I received a copy of Shelley Powers‘ new book, Painting the Web about a month ago. Sadly I was pretty busy with work and other projects so I wasn’t able to devour it as quickly as I’d hoped - though I did take a moment to squee over the fact that my SVG Support page is in the book. Ok, this review might be biased Click To Read More...
Why don’t Comp.Sci professors give out extra credit to students who submit patches to open source projects? I’m sure profs could come up with some scoring system based on the complexity of the patch and the amount of effort involved (size of code base, subject matter, etc). This would get the student out of pure theoretical assignments and give them real-world experience with software problems. About the only challenge I see with this idea is that a student may get 90% of the way through working on a patch and someone else (outside the school) comes in and scoops them. For this, a prof could still give some points for ‘trying’ if there was proof of the work.
Rob is heading to the Chicago ‘burbs this weekend. Since we are not often released from captivity, this is a good chance for us to head downtown for some beverages and food. If anyone else is interested in an impromptu web-geek meet-up in the Chicago area, let me know. I’m thinking of Elephant & Castle, Saturday night around 6pm for dinner. Not sure where we’ll go from there yet. Suggestions?
I recently tried to compile Daniel Holbert’s SMIL patches in mozilla-central. While doing this, I observed the “configure” was core dumping. The folks in the #developers channel over on irc.mozilla.org were able to help me out and trace it down to the fact that Ubuntu’s dash was crashing. I worked around this by changing Mozilla’s configure script to use #!/bin/bash instead of #!/bin/sh.
Apparently this crash has been fixed on Ubuntu 8.10 because Daniel himself hasn’t witnessed this crash?
about a month ago. Sadly I was pretty busy with work and other projects so I wasn’t able to devour it as quickly as I’d hoped - though I did take a moment to squee over the fact that my 
