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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Oh yes. Ph34r m3!!!

“Contentical” as in “pretty okey dokey with how things are going as of late” that is. My beautiful children and bride are sort of settling in in our new home. My bride is making some friends here and there, as … Continue reading →

Amarok 1.4 has been released and all I can say is WWWWOOOOOOOWWWW.  This release is amazing, guys.  I’ve been waiting for it to show up in my kubuntu updates list and it hasn’t, so tonight I hunted a bit and … Continue reading →

So, as a prelude… you may think of it as something very important to learn in life… if ever you are planning on digging very, very, very large rocks out of your New England back yard, be sure to cover … Continue reading →

… I shall list the things that I would actually put into a real post if I had the time: I would post about the incredibly fun time my little brood and I had down South-Easterly-like in our previous home-town … Continue reading →