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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” - Linus Torvalds
February 6th 2007
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Morning commute

I live far away from school. It's a fact of life. My normal route involves a >10 minute walk to the nearest metro station (Vinateros), waiting for a train on Linea 9, going 2 stops (to Sainz de Baranda) and waiting for another train on Linea 6, and ...
January 25th 2007
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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.
January 18th 2007
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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 ...
January 10th 2007
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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 ...

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This is a blog I use when documentation is worthwhile and/or necessary. This has generally fallen under three categories: my time studying abroad in Madrid, various unrelated technical projects, and my work for Gallery during Google Summer of Code 2008. This blog currently centers around that third one.

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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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