Posted in linux on January 4th, 2007 20 Comments »
One of the exciting things about upgrading to Fedora Core 6 is that the yum package manager now frequently hangs on me. This does not fill me with joy.
The most common way in which it falls over is by hanging hard after printing this message:
Parsing package install arguments
What it means to “hang hard” here is [...]
Posted in house on January 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Carol Lloyd at the Chron wrote a second article about our fun with green building in San Francisco recently, which elicited a mention at SocketSite. The peanut gallery had a variety of comments, which I’ll quickly address here.
Someone noticed that our planning drawings were sent back to an “earlier” desk in the review process because [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Set him on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.
Tip of the hat to Quinn.
Posted in haskell, slice-o-life on January 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve lately become interested in the Haskell programming language again, after a long time (eleven years!) away from the fold. During the process of thrashing about and trying to find my footing, I discovered a new module, named Data.ByteString, which makes dealing with strings in Haskell both sane and impressively fast. So I started to [...]