CodeWarrior's Cruft

Off to the track! Soon! I was at qualifying yesterday, and seeing those F1 cars zoom, turn, and accelerate in front of me was awesome! I cant wait for the big race today (=

I added a small widget to the right sidebar that shows what music I'm currently listening to by pulling stuff from Last.fm. So far looking good, lets see what happens when I leave the music turned off at home and I listen to other stuff at the office (=

The last 2 weeks went by way faster than I wanted them to. I had my family over and it was just great. We had a wonderful time, got my place fixed up with all sorts of funky things, and over all spent quality time together. Nothing much to say, just thought I'd go for a small post to let everyone know where I've been lately (=

Why can't most audio players (software and hardware) have a "repeat one" or "repeat selection" feature? I find myself, once and again, wanting to repeat a certain song over and over, either when working, or when I'm running or at the gym. The solution is usually to either place it in its own playlist or folder, or just keep hitting the back button every time its done. VLC has this feature, hey Audacious, wanna implement it? Rockbox too? You'll sure as hell make my life easier and my listening experience more enjoyable.

I was running Ubuntu 7.10 since it got out on my box at home and its been treating me pretty nicely. Last night, I tried to use the internet updater to move to 8.04. After installing the system and rebooting to use the new kernel, I was greeted with a funky looking display. Everything was blurred, and looked like crap. After looking into it, apparently the version of X with Ubuntu 8.04 and the xorg intel video driver don't work nicely together. I tried updating the entire thing from git, and still no dice. I so could not be bothered with it, i just cp -R'ed / into another directory, and decided to back to something I enjoyed using more, Gentoo, which is installing and updating world as we speak. It feels good to be back. (=

Is back!!! In all its glory too! Boring and semi static as usual - I need to find the best place to put the thing. The plan is to set up a couple of them eventually - I'll need long USB cables though, or something of the sort.

So I moved to my new place yesterday, got things set up here and there. The place is still empty though - in dire need of some furniture and a BIG tv screen (= I managed to leech some internet from some random access point in the neighborhood. Not too bad, 500K/s, does for now. I stocked up my fridge with the needed nutrients (egg whites, cottage cheese) and my usual oat meal. Speaking of which, I'm hungry! (=

I'm moving in a few hours. The new place is much closer to work, and much more convenient. The only downside right now is that i will be offline for a period of time during the days on weekends, and during the nights on week days until my ISP "moves over" my connection there. Hisham TV will also be out for a while (=

Just when the weather was starting to clear up, and just after enjoying a sunny weekend, I got into the metro this morning, got out, and SWOOSH! Another nice windy snowy day! There was no way I was going to walk up to work form the metro in that weather, so I just waited (for around 15 minutes might I add) for the bus. Just another day in Montreal. (=

So was it any good? Actually, yes, it was, it made a lot of a difference at work... IRC was not too bad, since I phased it back in over the last couple of days, but IM was a major time killer. So whats a good compromise? Log onto IM during those times of the day where there isn't a very heavy work load, like lunch, and right close to 5PM when we have our daily scrumm meeting.