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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 ...

Kilbourn and the Seventeenths: European Tour Dates

Tomorrow is my last exam, and then straight away I leave with Jenny, Lauren, and Katie for an eleven day tour that will bring us to Milan, Venice, Salzburg, and Munich. It will surely be awesome, though at this point the whole idea is a little daunting--it's hard to ...

Things Move Quickly or The Iberian Time Warp

Who, me? Oh, I've been here. What have I been up to? Well, life as usual, for the most part. I wake up, I go to school, I go to work, I get home, I eat dinner, I "do homework" (read: zone out on the Internet) and I ...

Day One of Classes with the Masses

So yesterday I did it. I worked up the nerve to walk over to the Facultad de Informática and tried to attend a few classes. I had been trying to decipher the mess of a class schedule online for a while, and it always resulted in me giving ...

the text box that’s been open all day

First of all, please excuse the constant changing of the layout. Wordpress lets me completely change the theme with the click of a button, which makes it easy to get a little (N)ADD about it. It will probably change again soon. Eventually I'd like to build my ...

Weekend in Salamanca

On Friday night Katie and I hopped on the last train to Salamanca and we spent most of the weekend there. We stayed at a nice hotel which was pretty much the nicest place either of us had stayed at since we've been here (with -gasp- a real shower!) ...

Sick of being sick of being…

So what do you know, I'm sick again! I'd had vague symptoms going for the past couple of days, and yesterday when I was pretty sure I was sick, I see in the headlines of a metro newspaper that the flu is out in force in Madrid. I ...

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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.

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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