Valefor

I got a job. I’ll be doing backend database programming on Berklee College of Music’s online course programs. How awesome is that! I had the third interview (with management, first was on the phone, second was meeting the tech team) last Friday and they called TODAY and offered me the job. I’m THRILLED.
They’re located right [...]

The Debian/Firefox issue is pissing me off. The stance of both companies is normal but the comments made by users. NO ONE understands the issue. They just yell at each other for one side or the other with mis-information, thereby spreading it. One person even mentioned (as a comment to a mozilla blog) Debian’s iceweasel [...]

Vista is pissing me off. I keep reading articles about their “NEW” features. I don’t see any features I would classify as “NEW”. The big three I keep reading about:

3D Desktop: First of all you don’t even get this with the lowest level of Vista. You have to upgrade at least once to even experience [...]

Finally we have a GOOD mpd music client! Check this out! This is a mpd
frontend allowing me to use MPD, which I love.
I use quod libet for tagging my files now. The tagging library is
really nice and cool to use. It can do tagging from file names and
file names from tags etc. Great stuff. [...]

I think I want this.
Anyone own one and can speak for it? I don’t care about photos and movies at ALL, but I can’t seem to find any decent players that don’t include them. The look of this thing is excellent! Most non-ipod players look horrible but this one looks plain awesome. I want to [...]

So I’ve started sending in applications. The big three were done this past week and included Google, IBM and Sun. All three have locations in Boston so I applied appropriately. I can’t wait to hear and maybe go to an interview though I’m going to be extremely nervous. I also have applied to about 10-15 [...]

I solved Blather!!!! All by myself pretty much! IM me for an explanation, plus the solutions from the MIT Mystery Hunt HW team should be published soon anyway. I was very proud of myself. Like Tony mention, I really wanted a really geeky problem that I could solve to help the team, and I guess [...]

So Emacs pulls through and it looks like I can easily create code snippets in Wordpress by using the blockquote HTML tag and then just copying in the emacs-generate html code that you can generate using the htmlize emacs package. Seems to work great!

(defun gnome-open ()
“Opens the current buffer’s file with gnome-open”
[...]

So I’m newly dedicated to learning two new things: Ruby and Emacs. With Ruby also comes Rails of course
I just purchased kelsin.net so I want to get that site up soon. You can tell if you go there now that it only has a newly installed Rails default page loaded. I’m currently compiling [...]

This is just a shoutout to any people living in Boston currently. Anyone know of a really good ISP for broadband service? I’m not talking about earthlink, comcast and the like. I would love to get my cable or dsl from some local business type service. I want really fast speeds and maybe a static [...]