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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” - Linus Torvalds

“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 ...

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 ...

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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