October 2008
78 posts
My iMac superdrive just failed on me. It will no longer accept discs. Curses.
Constantly switching work environments is getting on my nerves. Windows/OS X, QWERTY/Dvorak, Textmate/E, Mail/Outlook, Firefox/Safari…
PHP doesn’t help. It usually doesn’t.
Building PDFs is damn complex.
Building PDFs is suprisingly complex.
people will pay for success.
Regulare expressions to the rescue.
More work than I have time for
Milk and cookies.
You know it seems the more we talk about it
it only makes it worse to live without it.
Would’nt it be nice?
Just set up Phusion Passenger for local rails development. So far, so good.
after running CoverSutra for months I am finally starting to use it. It’s pretty neat.
just finished my take-home exam on satire.
played a lot of Smash Brothers Brawl today. Good game.
Now: back to studying.
First time I’m having scrambled eggs in months. Yum.
The Shins sound better every time I listen to them.
I have way too much spacebar-related keyboard shortcuts.
I refuse to wear anything other than T-shirts, no matter the temperature outside.
Trying out Angie Stone.
Ignoring my To Do list for a couple of days had it grow to epic proportions.
using Ruby to speed up PHP development.
sifting through a lot of pictures of wounds.
installing new fonts in Windows takes 20 minutes before giving up. Frustrating.
crunching jpegs
Time to go home. In need of food.
I’m so productive I’m on fire, yet I doubt anyone will notice just how productive that is.
I hate text in images, especially when I have to translate it.
Working with rather disgusting photos of wounds for a medical site. Good thing I’m a web developer and not a doctor.
Where would I be without Regular Expressions?
Writing Ruby scripts to automate a lot of dull stuff.
Dusting off my German. Kind of proud that I can still translate (a few) simple sentences.
My interest had been waning for while, but A List Apart is on it again (http://ping.fm/5KmiH).
Programmers ate my HTML templates.
Windows Grep is a great tool for multiple file regular expression find (and replace).
Heading to Tilburg
After tagging some of my pictures of lions with ‘sex’ on Flickr the’ve become strangely popular.
today: sauna!
Finally uploading a bunch of pics to Flickr. Still a great backlog remains.
When I showed my teacher my research plan his eyes glimmered with academic joy and interest. I love that connection.
I love it when the smell of whisky fills my entire room.
Tempted by my Wii. Must… Resist…
heading home (to a microwave dinner, most likely)
Hosting support at a minute to five is not great.
I really need to automate my deployment process. Alas I work on Windows!
If you use the word ‘powerpoint’ as a noun then I don’t like you.
up way too early for what looks like a long day.
My kingdom for a stable internet connection.
Diving into Vondel’s satire.
Bought some new books from the Pragmatic Programmer’s with my 35% off coupon.