Christopher Blizzard

I love you.

Month: March, 2004

Say you love CVS. SAY IT.

<zab> “cvs rtag -d $BRANCH $REPO” didn't seem to really remove
the tag..
<shaver> -B Allows -F and -d to disturb branch tags.
Use with extreme care.
<zab> ah
<shaver> nice that it gave you an error message, eh?
<shaver> *shot*
<zab> god
<zab> these tools
<shaver> [...]

money money money

Mark Shuttleworth
is offering some Bounties,
including some on Mozilla-related projects. Get hacking!

get your flame on

My friends and I have strong opinions when it comes to CVS:

<phik> we only have a few really core requirements that cvs doesn't give us
<phik> atomic commits with unique names are nice (hey, grab patch-315)
<blizzard> phik: yay, atomic commits!
<blizzard> phik: i.e. patch sets
<phik> yeah
<blizzard> phik: I guess I've had to live [...]

conversational english

Had an instrument lesson on Saturday. Quick cross-country up to
Laconia in New
Hampshire. Didn't learn too much, but it was good to get some
practice in. Came back and did the VOR 23 approach into Bedford
[...]

…or how SARS will save Social Security

The Bruce
Sterling Rant-A-Thon.
Oh, when I was reading that I had to go and look up the word Lysenkoism. Strange
that I was reading something else earlier that led me to a
description of the phrase Sound
[...]

you’ll definitely be hearing plenty more music

I've been trying to track down a copy of an album that is
apparently very rare. It's called Scenes
from a Blue Divide (Live) and More by Richard
Shindell. However, not being a guy who looks for rare CDs nor
[...]

native menus

Some of the hackers on the moz project have been doing an excellent
job of trying to make firefox integrate well with a gnome
desktop. Finally today FireFox's menus took a big step forward
and they look – at least as [...]

“also, on the who-is-on-crack-today-front…”

Check it out.
Sun is rewriting the same three apps all over again. Oh,
but this time it's different because it's written in Java.
The site says you will be able to run it from your favorite
portal, [...]

what is your super-power?

Berkshire Hathaway is a huge company. It also has one of the most bland web sites
I've ever seen in my life. However, there is good content there.
Of particular interest to me was the Owner's
Manual. It's worth [...]

eight for three

I had scheduled an instrument lesson yesterday because we were
supposed to have good instument weather today. It's early march
and we were supposed to have temperatures in the low 60s with
clouds and light rain. Oh. And wind. [...]