08. Apr 2008 
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For a long time, I’ve been a member of the ACM. They over a ton of really invaluable services, not the least of them the ACM Portal – a giant resource of pretty much every important computing-related paper. And, since they’re a big organization, it’s inevitable they wanted to give me a gift for my [...]
04. Apr 2008 
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Told you there’d be some changes this year. One of them: I’ll become a citizen of the United States (the INS willing). I’ve just filed my N-400 application – have a read if you want to have some fun. It’s a ton of paperwork, and it’s expensive. $695 filing fee. I’ll expect to get a [...]
10. Mar 2008 5 comments
If you’re running a blog and you actually want people to look at your archives, please don’t have the stupid “Previous” and “Next” entries at the bottom of each page. Nobody seems to be able to agree on what they mean. So, how about instead using “Older Entries” and “Newer Entries”? That way, we poor [...]
10. Mar 2008 0 comments
This is mostly here as a note to myself (Google is my outboard brain), but if you maintain a website, it might be helpful… Should you dare to specify inline CSS style in a <span> tag, be sure you separate the property name and the value with a colon, not an equal sign. Especially tricky [...]
10. Mar 2008 2 comments
This Christmas, Petra and I had some time to ourselves, and started sorting through old pictures and clothes. As we did that, we realized that we’re carrying around a ton of stuff that has no real use for us. In an effort to get some space in our apartment, we have been working on cleaning [...]
26. Feb 2008 0 comments
Like presumably many Mac users, I use iTunes to receive and organize my podcasts – I simply like having all my media in one place, and it makes syncing to my iPod very easy. But there’s one glaring omission in iTunes’ podcast handling – you have no fine-grained control over how many episodes of a [...]
05. Feb 2008 0 comments
Just in case you missed it, today is “Super Tuesday“. If your state is one of the 24 involved, go and vote. Unless you’re not a citizen of the U.S., there’s no excuse if you don’t. It’s a rather important one – we’re in the early stages of selecting somebody who gets to clean up [...]
04. Feb 2008 0 comments
A couple of days ago, Daring Fireball pointed me to a great new web site, Instapaper. Basically, it’s a trivial way to collect your own little list of links that you want to read later. It’s an awesome way to transport URLs between multiple computers, your iPhone, and all the other web-enabled devices you might [...]
02. Feb 2008 4 comments
Update: Since many people search for this specific string, this article tells you how to “uninstall icalfix” With OSX Leopard, iCalFix has ceased to be useful. The core functionality is now part of iCal, iCalFix is incompatible with Leopard, and Apple is phasing out the method I used to actually modify iCal. As a result, [...]
01. Feb 2008 5 comments
One of the changes in this year is that Petra and I decided to take a bit more control over our lifes. As part of this, we’re reviewing our goals and tasks from time to time. To be exact, we have a daily ‘meeting’ (usually right before bed time) looking at what tasks we completed [...]