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Clocks run on 24 hour time here, so when I just happened to look at my new digital clock radio at exactly midnight that's what it said. I've been much better since our class ended on Thursday. It's been really nice to have some time to enjoy being here and ...

so so so

I am so so so done with that orientation course. Good riddance. At least two tons have been lifted off my shoulders, and we might go to Rome this weekend (!). Vamos a ver.

La niebla

This is going to be a long rant. But damnit, it's going to be an organized one. It's been a rough couple of days. "Culture shock" or "homesickness" or "depression" hit right on time, after the "honeymood period" just like they said it would. Not that everything was ...

The Elusive Internet

Another "yes, I am still alive" post I'm afraid. My diligent quest to achieve a reliable Internet connection (through the wonders of 3G mobile broadband) has been foiled on several fronts. In order to get the service I need to sign a contract for 18 months and I ...

Another home

Only a few hours ago I arrived at the apartment of Gloria, where Chris (the other guy on this trip) and I will be living for the next five months.  The apartment is small and it is far from Madrid--we will have a 50 minute commute to school--but Gloria is ...

But my body’s sayin’ no

These last few days have been incredible in a way that I cannot fully respect at the moment because I'm too busy trying to get through them.  I would have liked to write in detail about everything that has happened each day since we got here, but they have not ...

In Transit

It looks like I just might make it. I'm watching a small airplane icon make its way from London to Madrid. It's very Indiana Jones, and also speaks well to the incredible disconnect between me sitting here in a cramped seat typing and the fact that I'm in ...

May 21st 2008
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My First Unit Test

I finally figured out the trouble I was having with the unit test for my bugfix.  It's one of those things where I still don't exactly understand why doing what I did made everything work, but I'll accept it and do the dance of victory. What happened was I got the ...
May 20th 2008
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Commencement

So, I've been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2008 with Gallery, "the open source web based photo album organizer".  My project title is "Facebook / Flickr Style Image Region Based Tagging" and I will be working out of Milwaukee, WI for the summer.  I'm incredibly excited to get started, and ...
August 24th 2007

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Merging PDF files on OS X (and failing)

I need a place to write down technical stuff, and for now this will be it. Here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to merge several PDF files into one, multi-page PDF file. Simple, right? Seems like something I should be able to do in my favorite way ...
April 23rd 2007

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“If you love something you can put beauty into it.”

It's early Monday afternoon and I'm sitting in the library to avoid the rather immense level of ambient noise that tends to permeate the public areas of the "Facultad de Filosofía e Historia B" building. I've got 40 minutes until class. This weekend was a trip sponsered by the Marquette ...
April 11th 2007

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Running for the bus

In the past 11 days I have been in four cities in three different countries, each with its own language and culture.  So much has happened in this time, but I have so little to say about it.  Several times on the trip I sat down with the intention of ...

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