This guy told me to do this. So I did. I don’t think resizing counts as editing. I don’t think anyone would appreciate downloading a 3264 × 2448 pixel image.
So I’ve recently started doing some on-the-side contracting work for a relative, so I need to keep track of the time I spend on various tasks.
After some looking around, I decided to give GTimeLog a try, because it seemed to be exactly what I needed without anything extra. I especially like how it has a nice, simple, text-based file format, so I can write my own scripts to fiddle with it if I feel so inclined.
It also has support for launching your favorite mail program to send of daily, weekly, or monthly reports, or export reports as CSV to a spreadsheet program, both of which could come in handy depending on the situation.
I would surely recommend any programmer I know to give it a try for any contract work they might be doing. Well, I suppose anyone I know who’s doing computer-based contract work, really.
The interface looks like the following (click for a larger image):
In lieu of a real blog post, and as a way to break the 3-week silence that has recently hung over this blog, I’d just like to say this:
I’ve been looking at CouchDB, and it looks awesome.
For those who don’t know, CouchDB is a RESTful, distributed, schema-free, document-oriented database.
It looks like it’s the answer to all those times when I was thinking to myself “Man, this really doesn’t need a relational database, it needs…something else.”
Well, from what I’ve seen so far, this just might be the something else.
I would have more to say about it, some examples even, except I’ve spent my last two evenings fiddling with my NSLU2, trying to get it actually up and working after having several hard drive issues. I’ve given up on one of my hard drives, but now the Debian install won’t finish, it dies half way through saying it failed to finish the configuration or some such thing.
Anyway, I may just have to give up on it sooner or later and start doing more interesting things, and once I do that, I’ll have something more to say about CouchDB, with some example code even.
I got myself an NSLU2 and set NSLU2 Debian up on it. It’s working alright except that the clock battery is dead so it refuses to boot up with NTP turned on.
Because of that, I get to deal with some fun stuff like this:
pib@home ~]sudo fsck /dev/sda2 fsck 1.40.5 (27-Jan-2008) e2fsck 1.40.5 (27-Jan-2008) /dev/sda2: recovering journal /dev/sda2 has gone 13975 days without being checked, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/sda2: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** /dev/sda2: 23941/3541440 files (0.9% non-contiguous), 441602/7080640 blocks
So apparently this partition, which I created 2 days ago, hasn’t been checked in over 38 years.
Also, there’s stuff like this this:
pib@home ~]ssh slug pib@slug's password: Linux slug 2.6.18-6-ixp4xx #1 Tue Feb 12 00:57:53 UTC 2008 armv5tel The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. No mail. Last login: Wed Dec 31 18:02:18 1969 from 192.168.15.177 pib@slug:~$
Yeah, I guess I’ve got to go find a new battery.
Sometime fairly recently Google added Austin, TX and the surrounding area to their Google Street View.
Part of that surrounding area included my street, and therefore, my house!
Sadly it appears that both Angie and I were at work when this happened, so neither of our cars are visible and you can’t see me sitting at the computer I’m at right now through the window.
Well, you wouldn’t have been able to see that anyway, but whatever.
Anyway, check it out:
As you may have noticed, this is my third post of the day.
This is part of my new policy to post thrice daily.
It has occurred to me that when it comes to blogs, quantity is of much higher importance than quality.
I think everyone will agree that three posts each day is much better than a good post every few days or weeks.
Don’t you think so?
If you don’t you are tottaly wrong and stupid.
As you may have noticed, I’ve updated the design of my blog a bit.
Using my superior web design and CSS skillz.
I think everyone will agree that this is much better.
Don’t you think so?
If you don’t you are tottaly wrong and stupid.
I am sitting here, drinking a warm Diet Dr. Pepper, trying to relax a bit and calm myself down.
This morning, I wake up, and I’m feeling very groggy. Angie and I were out until 3:30am, and it’s not even 11 yet.
I have a little bit of breakfast, but what I really need is caffeine. Of course, we don’t have any in the house.
We have some black tea and some Oolong tea, but I want something with a bit more caffeine in it to wake me up. The only coffee we have left is decaf. Useless.
Any time you have a large number of people driving on the same road, you start to notice certain patterns of stupidity, carelessness, or perhaps ignorance.
Almost every day I ask myself: “Do these people not know how to drive, or do they choose to ignore the rules?”
For some reason I still have some sort of faith in humanity, so I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume the former, rather than the latter.
Plus, the first problem can be solved through education, whereas the second requires a change in attitude, which is much harder to accomplish.
Without further a-do, here is the first in a series of posts with the goal of education the general public on the subtle intricacies of driving.
For my first topic: Signaling.
