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To steal some really good content from Miguel de Icaza's blog.

Finally broke down and bought this backpack I've been wanting. Every time I venture to the Apple store, I always drool over this one incase backpack, so I got it. It's specifically designed for carrying a laptop around. So I don' t have to go and use a sleeve and my normal backpack. I do like the low profile of people not knowing I have a laptop with me., but the professional appearance of the new bag is always a nice option. I hope it really holds up.

I also needed to figure out a solution to carrying my existing old but proven 3rd generation iPod. My requirements pretty much were, that I needed to find a carrying case that would attach to an existing belt. I easily found one at the Apple Store, and it happened to be by the same company that the backpack above was made by.

Wow it's almost 3 in the A.M. Fortunately I have been "slinging" the code. And putting more time and effort into doing something in which has been done a few times, but hopefully of course I'll get it right, unlike everyone else out there.

I found this informative page on the apple website for explaining how to cycle lithium ion batteries. I also read about the new iPod Mini and how it gets 18 hours of battery life. They even upgraded the capacity of the new iPod Mini to 6 gb, and price dropped the 4 gb models to $200. I think they are maneuvering for market saturation, which is pretty great!!!!

Finally got my ubuntu discs after weeks of waiting. I think i'm gonna multiboot my powerbook and run ubuntu on that. I dunno. I really do like OSX, but I know since I like Apple's hardware soo much that I'd be more prone to using my powerbook vs. my dell if I loaded ubuntu on it. I know I could've just downloaded the ISO, but do I really want to download and install another ISO? So my main desktop at home is running Slackware 10, with my own custom 2.4.26 kernel, and Dropline Gnome 2.4. I've been pondering on moving my desktop to either Novell Linux Desktop, Ubuntu, or Gentoo, i'm strongly considering Ubuntu, I already have NLD on my laptop, so putting it on my Desktop would be nice, but wouldn't benefit me all that much!

So many people THINK about doing a lot of things, I think the trick is not to JUST think, but to THINK, then do.

I know in recent blogging news, that a google employee lost his job cause he compared google and microsoft benefit packages, and more importantly decided to disclose company financial stuff. When I do talk about work place related things, I try to keep them as abstract as possible, and non person specific as possible. It's rather funny to just look at the situation minus using people's real names anyways. So at work one of the senior engineers was promoted above our line manager. To me it seems that the senior engineer is now above or equal to the line manager now. The only responsibility that the newly appointed co-project manager really does other than what the line manager already does is the schedule. Today I heard them get into a kind of funny conversation. The Line manager looked at the schedule, and said, "You're assumption for this task taking this amount of time is, wrong!" The co-project manager responds with, "It's only this, this and this." And of course the response from the line manager is, "Nope you assumed wrong, think about this, and this." It was hilarious, co-project manager got straight pimped! Ahh Engineer to Engineer interaction, completely circumvents any kind of cordial, "excuse me, ahem, but you're wrong," kind of response, and just simplifies to, "You're wrong, now shut up, and nod, bitch!" I see much humor in this. I wonder if the rest of the world operated like this, how efficient would it be?

Yes, my vision is taking form. Finally! I've got the stable version working, and successfully making itself visible, vs. hidden, just like gaim!!!!!!! I know the icon needs some work, but I just needed something to be there for now. As soon as I'm through implementing 0.1, I'll try to get Jimmac to make me a gnome styled icon.

A friend of mine has pointed me to this awesome website that looks at current American culture and makes interesting observations on how men and women interact. I don't know if I agree with all of it. But it seems a majority of it looks good to me!!! Here's an excerpt......

My friend Paco told me that there's a spanish saying that goes, "De los cobardes nada se a escrito."First off, being of Spanish ancestory, I feel horrible at not really understanding anything besides "escrito." But the phrase translates to, "Nothing has ever been written about cowards."Sometimes when one ventures into unknown territory, they often get very discouraged. I'm in unknown territory. I think the probablity for failure, or things not comming out the way i'd like them to ideally be is silm to none. BUT, I'm striving to not be a coward, and to push on. This is much like a Marathon. It's not till you get to mile 20 that you realize that you only have 6.2 miles left, but those remaining miles seem far longer than the 20 miles you already treked. The goal is to finish, hobbling, limping, in severe pain, just got to get to the line. That's what it's about. When you get there you will be like, "Wow, look what I've done." Of course it's great to have fun along the way, enjoy the scenery, and stay hydrated along the way, but reach that line.

Finally got Tomboy working again. I've noticed I use Tomboy primarily for something like the picture below.

I think I'm gonna try and hack together a cool Tomboy Plugin to handle todo lists. I'm not sure but I think that would be ultra useful.

Perhaps there exists a singularity of the economic status of people who claim to be liberal vs. their liberal ideals. I don't necessarily agree with this quote, but from a certain perspective, there exists some comic relief.

On the heels of this quote, there was an incident about Greenpeace protesters that got beaten up by oil traders! The article explaining in detail is here. My take on that situation is, those protesters were making a lot of noise on a floor that was making business and money. Reguardless weather or not the money was being made off of things that make polution worse, they should respect the medium, raise money, or start their own business and change the business climate of the oil industry. I totally feel what they did was completely disrespectful. Granted, I don't know the entire history of Greenpeace vs. the oil industry, and it wasn't right for the oil guys to beat the living crap out of those protesters either. Everything is just plain uncalled for, but I feel it wasn't right to storm an oil trading center, so they got what they deserved!

I think I actually met this person, before he decided to join up. During college, I used to attend parties held by his sister at their family's house in Chino Hills. My condolences go out to their family, and of course friends that knew this brave man. It saddens me, that someone's family member has been sacrificed, and it makes me question more closely how much the "Greater Good" is really worth.

In my constant retarded nature I have found the best anti-valentines day website. Here you can make custom pictures of those dreaded sweatheart candies.Here's a few I have made, this is so fun.....

Once again Nat.org, has found some more really cool sites! I love this site and I feel it's an insane model. And of course being the good "Uncle" that I am I'll put the kids in birth order, as to not be accused of having a favorite. Today is a polar opposite to what was yesterday. I hope it just keeps getting better. I heart "le beauty queen."

Tomboy has not been working on my NLD. I seriously think i'd be using that application more if I could actually get it up and running! It seems the DBus dependancy is broken, so I've been trying to fix it, thinking that it would be nice to keep track of all of my stickies again......so far no dice on the DBus dependancy from hell!!!!!

Of course when I started this blog. I said I'd try to keep it pretty technical, but of course rules are made to be broken. And in lieu of what is the eve of that wreched so called american bamboozled holiday, valentines day. I give you, "le beauty queen," a.k.a. "le girlfriend." Of course as my desktop background!!! So it's still technical, but kinda of intertwined like everything else!

Finally fixed my movable type crappy CSS, it is now clean!!!! That was an extremely long file to maintain, I should probably re-think how i'm structuring everything, but I slaved through it, and I hope I don't have to do this again! Now I need to edit my templates for, the archive pages, and comments.

This is a rather funny entry of text. It was a comment to one of my posts, I decided it needed more exposure. Please know I'm in no way a "Hitler" fan, but hey the guy had something going for him cause he had a girlfriend right? Well of course in all things that are wacky/strange/plain weird about Hitler, his girlfriend was his teenaged niece.

It's friday, I woke up this morning just wanting to stay in bed. One of those days, I guess. I dislike it when people in general claim self -proud-ness, but I am proud of myself, for sucking it up, and dragging my arse to work. I hope to get close to finishing off the rewrite/reorganization of saturn. I'm in the middle of major source tree restructuring, I feel that I don't want to be restructuring crap every nth version or so down the road. Hence the restructuring.

I've been really busy lately. Work seems to be picking up, finally! As well as work on saturn, I think I've finally defined all of the important pieces, and know how I would like for them to interact. I've been restructuring the source tree. I would be well on my way into coding but this damned letter of recommendation has been sucking up my time! To say the least, it's been good practice for later. It's always good to hone skills that you haven't used in some time. Of course I use my writing skills using this wonderful medium almost daily. But it's just not the same as "real" writing.

Once again! Google is on top! Last night I got to mess around with Google Maps Beta.

I think their interface is superior, all you have to do is search for anything you want on the map, and you'll pretty much get it. Looks like for now it only works with anything related to the United States. What I thought was the coolest part is that you can now search for a kind of store in your area like with the following string... "Pizza in Santa Clara, CA" This is similar to Google Local, but on heavily sedated drugs! Check out the search results below.Or search for just the location of a street in a city. By typing "Town and Country Lane Santa Clara, CA" you the result.....This is very very powerful, but very much oriented like all of Google's search based tools. It makes sense, and from my view point they've once again raised the bar!

Man I'm stuck trying to write this letter of recommendation for a friend of mine. I never knew how hard a letter of recommendation could be!

I personally think this is going to be a double edged sword with consumers. Cause the more and more I see a need for some kind of thread for something to stay on your machine and track your searching/web browsing habits. But aside from that the features that are going to be pushed on us consumers/users of these search engines are only going to help us get our information faster! So here's some screen shots of my short but amazingly nice experience with MSN Search. It seems Google has set the rules for the battle of the search engines. With Yahoo and MSN playing catch up.

This is what you first see when you visit http://search.msn.com. I personally don't think the UI is all that BUT...as you can see with the next picture.There is some cool features to this UI that is not so bad. I personally like their "Search Builder" feature. It seems more useful than figuring out Google's, "Advanced Search" feature. I think MSN wins that category. But that's about it.This is the settings page, that suppositely saves these settings somewhere, I'm guessing a cookie, in your browsers cache. I think it's cool how it remembers your location. That makes sense!!I did a search on "heatxsink" just to see what hits on their engine. The results are pretty much the same as what I would see on a Google results page.But when I scrolled through the results, I noticed that there's an RSS feed associated with the search I made!!! I've been waiting for this feature from google for quite sometime, I hope it comes soon, which I bet it will cause Google doesn't want to fall behind! You can see the results of the RSS feed on my "home" page, at the bottom.Something similar to "Google Local", but no where near as useful. I think Google wins this category. I'm sure there will be alot more to come.

I bet if the GOP were to do something like this, it would be all over the news. Here's the website. I found these so called patriotic posters in the gift shop. A site like this doesn't help our country.

On another conspiratorial note, I found an interesting article on the Sponge Bob Square Pants / Gay Agenda.

It's been another long time at a desk blasting music as loud as I think it's possible to blast in my room. Saturn is really forcing me to look at things in a design pattern way. I never thought half of those things I learned in the three of my design patterns books really mattered. Now I think i'm beginning to see. I dunno, but the more and more I look at this, the more and more it looks long and winded. Plus how I design something now might dictate really bad, or really good decisions later.

I'm definitely learning alot, but I feel like i'm not moving fast enough but at the same time if I move too fast I could make a hasty decision. It's such an internal tug-o-war that makes me just want to leave it all on the table and goto bed! On an entirely different note, I finally got my laptop to properly suspend and standby in NLD (read: Novell Linux Desktop), I also got the wireless card to work! I initially started with the linuxant wlan driver stuff, but when I updated to a newer development kernel that has the inotify patch in it, it didn't work!! So I just resorted to my Slackware ways downloaded the ipw2200 driver and compiled the drivers. I'm SO glad I've been using slackware.Time for a nap then work. :-)

Been looking at heart rate monitors lately. And of course as soon as I get well it's time to start training for the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. It's funny, this post comes at a time when I recieved an email asking if I would run the Los Angeles Marathon, I know for a fact my body isn't in the best of shape to be doing that, so I'm going to pass. But it's time to start the training for San Diego, and this time I'd like to be more dedicated about it, and hopefully some real data can be finally posted to this website! Wow another 26.2? Yes, but the goal this time is to really do it within the sub 5 hour mark, hell I'll be happy with sub 6 hours! Remember, running is a race against yourself! Never against anyone else! Enough talk.

Here's an awesome piece of javascript thanks to the Google people!!! So if you goto Google's Browser Buttons website. You will find that they have this cool think that you could drag to your browser link bar. See Picture below, hijacked from Google's website of course!!!

So all you have to do is say you are cruising along websurfing...and then you want to google something, no worries just highlight the text in question, and click this link/button on your link bar and baam!!! You get a google search result page!. So I did some investigating in trying to see how they did this wonderful little tool, and I found that it's all just javascript!!!! Now I know everyone has been talking about how Google has really made use of what once was written off as a hackish way of doing nice automated menus and blocking of right clicking on sites, but seriously Google really has made use of this scripting language, I mean look at Gmail, and Google Suggest! Wow!! Those are some really good features to bring to the browser world! Pretty cool if you ask me, well so here's the javascript code I found while investigating.
javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i