eric’s extremeboredom

Look what Allison made me! Best gift ever. Hope everyone else had as great of a day as I did.

I got QuickThumbs creating smaller versons of images! Tomorrow I am going to go through and clean up all the code (it’s quite a mess) then post it up for download. Until then, check it out: Daily boredom links Note: I was asked by someone to start giving people credit for giving me these URLs, [...]

I got really sick of trying to maintain a photo gallery. Having to manually upload photos, catagorize them, set names, etc. is a big pain. All I wanted was to drag my photos over to my server using nautilus and have them be accessible to the web, and obviously mod_autoindex wasn’t quite sufficiant. So rather [...]

CameraUndelete GUI Hacking I helped Wade out with the GUI for his image recovery program. It is a very good example of how to write a Gtk# application that runs some background task but still need to let the user know what’s going on and keeping the UI responsive. Download and more information here. gMeshwork [...]

Last night the Seattle Mono User’s Group got together for a dinner meetup. There were around 20 people there including special guest Miguel De Icaza of Gnome/Ximian fame. It was a great group of people and everyone had a great time. It was nice to see so many people with interest in Gnome/Linux/Mono, and I [...]

The fire alarm went off at work today. I was wearing headphones listening to music at a very high volume and didn’t hear the alarm at all. Here is an artist’s rendering of the event: Image Credit: AceDashfire, the awesome. There ended up not being any fire, but I could have DIED.

The Whitebox/RHEL RPMs that are linked to from the Subversion download page were built against a non-standard set of dependencies and are basically impossible to install without breaking your entire RPM tree (or using –nodeps which would most likely end up with the same result). These RPMs work much better: http://people.redhat.com/jorton/Taroon-svn/

I was about to cross the street downtown today when a woman driving a large SVU came screaming into the crosswalk stoping very suddenly more than half way into it. Apparently the guy driving behind her wasn’t paying much more attention than she was and smashed right into her. Had I crossed any faster (they [...]

Since I haven’t been posting here enough, here’s the week (well, more like the past two or three days since my memory sucks…) in review. People who hard-code SQL connection strings into every single asp source file, then copy the entire website, create a subdirectory, paste it in there, and tell half the company to [...]