You may have noticed that the site was offline for three days. This was “upgrade weekend”, and it was a major change – I reinstalled my server from MacOS X Server to Gentoo Linux PPC. After a bumpy start, things are starting to get back into shape. There are still some things that may not [...]
Entries from August 2005
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Back from the dead
August 23rd, 2005 · No Comments
Tags: Site news
ACPI hibernate on a T43p
August 17th, 2005 · No Comments
I recently got a new work laptop: a very nice Thinkpad T43p to replace my older T30. My first act, as usual, was to wipe the preinstalled Windows and put Gentoo Linux on it. For the most part, things went smoothly, but I had to fight to get it to sleep properly.
There is a lot [...]
Tags: Computing · Linux · Tips & tricks
Wordpress 1.5.2
August 16th, 2005 · No Comments
Wordpress 1.5.2 is out, and I have upgraded this site. I always find it amazing how easy the process it. Wordpress is a real example of a well-written and easy-to-use web application. This release supposedly fixes issues with category settings from Ecto – this post will be the test.
Update: categories work!
del.icio.us tagging using browser keywords
August 7th, 2005 · 12 Comments
(see Update below!)
For a while, I have assigned a keyword to the del.icio.us bookmarklet. I use Sogudi in Safari for this, but the same feature exists in pretty much any other browser. With the default bookmarklet, I had assigned the keyword “dl” to it, so when viewing a web page, I can just press Command-L, [...]
Tags: Tips & tricks
iPod My Baby: It’s amazing, once you start looking for “baby stuff”, how many things you find, and how much money you can spend. This is an exceedingly cute example of the things you can get :-) (0)
Rain, rain, rain
August 2nd, 2005 · 3 Comments
It hasn’t stopped raining since yesterday, and now it’s going stronger than ever. And just a few days ago the heat was almost unbearable!
On the baby front, congratulations, mostly from family and friends, continue to arrive. Last Saturday we spent the whole afternoon calling the family to tell them the news. It was very satisfying [...]
Tags: Personal
Baby on the way…
August 1st, 2005 · No Comments
This is big. We are expecting our first baby! My wife is already 13 weeks pregnant, so we just passed the 3 month “critical period” after which we could start telling the news to everyone. The other day we saw the baby for the first time in ultrasound. It was really an amazing experience, to [...]
Tags: Personal
August 1st
August 1st, 2005 · No Comments
Today is Switzerland’s national day, so we all got the day free, and there’s been sound of fireworks all day long. In a little bit we’ll be heading down to the lake to watch the official fireworks display!
I was surprised to learn (at the page linked above) that only since 1993 is this day a [...]
Tags: Personal