I’m usually an avid fanboy of Qt, but the more I use it, the more I find myself wanting two changes: 1. More slots please 2. More control over signals  Read on for a couple examples.

I just watched a Microsoft video preview of Office 2007. I was impressed with the new “Ribbon” concept to replace all the old toolbars and menus. When I say all, I mean all! Finally, the “File” menu is gone! I think it looks quite nice, and it shouold save us from being drowned in an […]

Last Saturday I turned on my iPod nano to discover that about a third of the horizontal lines were solid white, obscurring the volume bar. I was momentarily devestated that my black beauty had broken. In desparation I googled “apple ipod support” and came to the iPod support page. I didn’t have a lot of […]

The GNU crew improved Make with lots of handy stuff. One such gem that I found today is the ?= operator, which only defines a macro if it is not already defined (like as an environment variable). It behaves almost like wrapping the assignment in ifndef. John Gramm-Cunning has a good explanation of this subtle […]

It’s not everyday that a man page makes you laugh out loud, but this blurb from the page for statfs did the job for me: I really did laugh out loud, until I read below in the page that basically explains that f_fsid just holds different things on different operating systems. Good for a laugh […]

I just installed WordPress 2.0. It went without a hitch. All I had to do was download the tar.gz, copy all the stuff in my old WordPress ./wp-content/plugins directory to WordPress 2.0’s plugins directory (same location), and copy my old wp-config.php file. Then I just visited ./wp-admin/upgrade.php and it was done. That’s it. It appears […]

I’ve been writing Python for a grand total of 2 days. I recently wrote a little Python script to print a Linx or UNIX system’s uptime. This took about 10 minutes to write, so I was pretty pleased. It even runs well on a 75MHz Busybox embedded Linux system. Check it out: One interesting thing […]

I was recently pleased to find an excuse to code some Python for the first time. I am impressed. Python doesn’t feel like other programming languages. When I write Python I feel like I’m just telling the computer what to do, rather than constantly worrying about essoteric language issues. What I mean is this. While […]

New Please visit the new LDS General Conference Podcast page. The rest of this info is old. Older Info Below The LDS church makes its general conference sessions available as downloadable MP3s, which is great, except my iPod treats them as songs. I prefer for it to treat them as podcasts so that I can […]

I just picked up a 10-year old copy of O’Reilly’s Practical C, 3rd Edition from the library for some light reading. Mostly, I just wanted to see if I would learn anything (as a guage of my own C proficiency). I’m glad to announce that I learned almost nothing, until, that is, I read page […]