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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Rain in the park

Looking at the misty trees in Central Park (NY).

Distant Bridge

A deserted bridge in St Louis.

Arc

Sun under the St Louis arc

Glass staircase

This is a staircase in the Cellular and Biomolecular research building, from which I posted the previous photograph. Note how even the ugly cement staircase has a glass rail in this building, which is allmost all glass.

Jars in Eclipse Plugins

In the past 2 days I’ve been trying to update the Bugzilla plugin before Fedora Core 5 test 3. I’ve been trying to make it play nice with the Red Hat bugzilla through the XMLRPC interface instead of html-scraping. The functionality was already there but I discovered that Eclipse couldn’t find the jar file that [...]

Photo - inner wall of biomolecular research building

A photo taken in the funky building I mentioned in a previous post.

Blogs, PHP, and Apache

So this weekend I finally decided to get my hands dirty and try to learn how to administer Apache, understand PHP, and (hopefully by virtue of the previous things), figure out how WordPress actually works. Phew, it was a long weekend.
I started out by redoing the Fedora Eclipse website, because it badly needed an overhaul. [...]

Google PhDs and strange encounters

Yesterday after work Greg and I went to a lecture by Wilson Hsieh, who is an Engineer at Google. He also happens to be a PhD and so, surprise surprise, the talk was geared mostly to other PhD students. We were obviously worried that it would be way over our heads, but it turned out [...]

Here we are

So here we are, I decided to make a blog to rant about things. I’m not sure how much I’ll keep it up, since I’m kinda lazy by nature :P. But we’ll see how it goes …