kinda like batman, but with a wife and 3 kids

When I won my PSP from a raffle at LinuxWorld, I honestly didn’t think that highly of it. In fact, my first thought was “I wonder if Linux would run on this.” It’s not worth it, IIRC, but what’s truly surprised me is the coolness of the PSP. It has built-in WIFI, which is pretty [...]

The Finished Product, originally uploaded by vanRijn. Or, possibly titled “How to hang that pesky, 50-pound window air conditioner unit in those purty little vinyl windows that you can’t stick screws into.” We have beautiful, wonderful double-hung vinyl windows, yay us. They’re very pretty, very functional, operate very smoothly, etc., etc. HOWEVER, they do NOT [...]

I had need to convert some files today from being newline-separated (one line per file, key-value pairs) to ‘###’-separated. In other words, instead of this: foo=bar smith=wibble neo=smith I needed this: foo=bar###smith=wibble###neo=smith My first inclination was to try using tr solely like this: cat $file | tr “\n” “###” This resulted, however, in only one [...]

A, Burying K & J, originally uploaded by vanRijn. We had an absolutely fantastical time today. I decided that we needed to find a beach to go to and go… to… it. Yah. So, we found a really, really nice beach here in RI that reminded me of both Mission Beach and La Jolla Shores [...]

100_3311.JPG, originally uploaded by vanRijn. We had a fun day at church a couple of weeks ago, doing a “Father/Buddy Day”. J & I decorated our own shirts (spiffy, eh?), and participated in a series of grueling events designed specifically for the enjoyment of the mothers and other family members in attendance. But that didn’t [...]

Just had to say… it certainly feels great to get into the midst of code I’ve never seen before, debug a problem, find the solution, test it, and submit a patch to the author. Man I wish I had more time for coding at home. Maybe God will let me code in heaven for Him! [...]