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Once again it is ridiculously hot in New York City. Our air conditioner at work was having difficulty keeping up, so we decided to upgrade it. Unfortunately, the new one didn’t have a long enough power chord, so for the past few hours its been blisteringly hot in the office as well (not to mention [...]

Work has been keeping me pretty busy, but I’ve managed to make some progress on Alities. Mainly, I implemented search paths for zip files, so you can install characters system-wide, or only in your own home directory. Also, I’ve set up a Fedora Core 4 as well as an Ubuntu system for compiling. This means [...]

Dammit, I re-injured my arm yesterday and last night, after it had been getting mostly better for a week-and-a-half. Now its like starting over from scratch. I don’t like having to wait a month to get better. Anyone have a bacta tank?

I installed Ubuntu Linux today on one of my computers. I have to say that although I never cared for Debian much, Ubuntu is a lot better and friendlier. If you are building a new system, you might want to check it out!

Last week I got off the train on my way home in excruciating pain. I though that I had somehow broken my right arm, even though I hadn’t banged it or even anything like that. It hurt if I didn’t move it, and it hurt even more if I did. The X-Rays at the hospital [...]

Today I made some significant progress on the X11 plugin for Alities. This plugin allows Alities to detect when windows are moved around on the screen. I was really worried about the feasibility of accomplishing this task, because as Alities may run from within existing widget sets (ie, KDE/QT, Gnome/GTK, etc), I thought it would [...]