I am moving my journal (sparse as it may be) to dreamwidth. Livejournal's stupid scripting, hijacking links, and other crap is just getting too annoying. So now you can find me at
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Ribs are on the BBQ.  Weather is looking much better than I expected to see this weekend.

So when you are the only white belt in class, you are going to have a hard time.  I guess that was the wrong class to show up for.

Given realsoonnow has gone camping/hiking for a few days with Enrico and hence has the car, I had the choice of either taking the bus to work (which takes about an hour and a half for 20km) or taking the motorbike.  Well I picked the motorbike.  It was dry when I left although that only lasted about 5 minutes.  I managed to stay dry for about half the trip to ( Read more... )

I am just finished packing up and about to head back home from Montreal from attending the Linux Symposium ( Read more... )

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So chocolatecoffee posted about typing speed so I just had to go see how I was doing at it too. Well here is my result.

71 words
free Touch typing
I know I don't follow quite normal typing patterns but something related to it modified to be efficient at hitting symbols required for programming too. I do wish someone would make a keyboard with a faster or ( Read more... )

I don't seem to post here very often. I think about lots of things, but hardly ever figure what I am thinking about would be very interesting to anyone else. Perhaps I am wrong, or maybe I am just too shy to put my opinions in the open. Anyone have any suggestions ( Read more... )

We spent about half of last week cleaning up the house, adding more furniture (needed space to store stuff better), which involved spending close to $2000 at ikea (my poor credit card), but at least it seems much better now. We have actually eaten dinner at the kitchen table for almost a week straight. I still have to finish sorting the pile of ( Read more... )

I am so sore today, after yesterday's ultimate game. Two hours of running around chasing a frisbee in the heat sure hurts afterward. Probably the occasional wipe outs don't help things. And we lost again (although only 13-10 which was better than the 21-11 last week). We were down 10-3 by half time, and then got 5 in a row to make it 10-8, ( Read more... )