http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings Yet another web log of personal junk. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:40:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Continuing with Jono's meme: Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the closest. My result (while at work): "DeviceRect must compute these values ... http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/11/12/nearest-book-meme/ To folks who are wondering if I've dropped off the face of the earth, a quick note: Sorry for the lack of interesting updates, but a few things have gone down in the past couple months that have kept me from keeping in touch. My company is closing down our ... http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/11/11/super-busy-looking-for-a-job-will-post-soon/ Trivial but handy utility/function to give you a subversion diff with paging and syntax coloring: svndiff () { svn diff $* | colordiff | less -r } Pass it anything you'd pass to "svn diff": e.g., "." for the current directory, a list of filenames, or options like --no-diff-deleted. http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/09/21/svndiff-handy-function/ Here in the underground bunker we have computers named after fruits: lime lemon mango cherry indigo - not a fruit, but replaced "indulgence" oreo - my wife has convinced me that Oreos are definitely a fruit All machines run Ubuntu server or Kubuntu, and several dual-boot and/or virtualize XP. http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/09/13/computer-name-meme/ The Wordpress RSS widget has two little flaws, in my opinion. Here are my fixes, in case they help anyone: For an article the widget will provide a "title" attribute that contains the whole content from the article. Since this site implements a tooltip-like hover box for links with ... http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/09/13/wordpress-mod-rss-widget/ (Click through the last image to see it in a bigger size, in which I think it looks considerably better.) http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/07/28/pictures-from-last-weekends-trip-home/ John Adams continues: "The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." This was going to be the first year I donated money to a political candidate. The movement of this country's national politics has become more ... http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/07/09/there-is-danger-from-all-men/ Please call your representative right now and implore them to not pass the false-compromise FISA bill, H.R. 6304. The vote comes up this afternoon, so please hurry! Passing H.R. 6304 would amount to a Congressional seal of approval on illegal surveillance. Even if the President and the telecoms knowingly and ... http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/06/20/stop-illegal-spying/ This project would have fizzled at several points had Diann not been there to teach and encourage. (I can be stubborn on rare occasions.) The interior is recycled graph paper and the exterior is wallpaper from an old sample book. It was great fun and will be ... http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/06/20/a-coptic-stitched-book/ Movie at the Lyric tonight, so nothing complicated: http://www.dubovsky.com/rantings/2008/06/18/levi-patient/