I will probably not need to ever remember this because I don't ever plan on building eclipse prolog again, but in case I do, here are my notes about how to do it on osx 10.5. Their documentation had some gaps and I filled them in in ways that worked for me ( Read more... )

%s/'\zs\d\+:\d\+'/00:&/g is a vim regex to convert from 'MM:SS' to 'HH:MM:SS' with leading zeros for the nonexistent hours. example: a 5k time of '19:10' is incorrectly interpreted as 19 hours, 10 minutes, 0 seconds by mysql. run the regex over the source, and it's correctly interpreted as 0 hours, 19 minutes, 10 seconds by mysql. The first \d\+ ( Read more... )

First, really glad it didn't rain. The weather was fantastic ( Read more... )

Ran the last 20 miles of the PDX course with the Portland Marathon Clinic free group run today. I went to the bathroom before the start (in Niketown), so I missed the explanation of the pace groups and the start of the groups I wanted to run with, so I jumped ahead of the ones currently starting to get to 3:30, for an easy 20. It was almost halfway ( Read more... )

ran 21.5 miles yesterday, 2:44:33.
I also tripped over some uneven brick sidewalk and fell down a little past 13 miles. No major damage.

Math says that my average pace was 7:39. I think I was just on the edge of the comfort zone. 5 more weeks of training, 2 weeks of taper left. Really excited. Very confident in running sub 3:20.

If you have a device running BusyBox and if you've also been using the lovely plain-text task-tracking system todo.txt, you might think they would go well together. Embedded linux device plus slim task manager, glove over hand ( Read more... )

"How to resize your Mac's hard drive after realizing you need more space in OS X and less in linux/windows ( Read more... )

Instead of getting a split at the 1-mile point, I hit the wrong button and paused my watch for the second mile ( Read more... )

In the same vein as saying goodbye to iTunes, here's another: I tried to use iPhoto, hated it, and ended up finding it easier and more convenient to run digiKam over a remote X session. Also, that let me keep my photos all organized the way I wanted, with digiKam helping out with tags and dates and albums. But having to keep another computer on to ( Read more... )

finally got amarok to build on osx. Kissing iTunes goodbye is going to feel so good.

The instructions available on the Amarok wiki seem up to date, with some caveats. here's the scoops ( Read more... )