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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[06:59] <kemayo> Today: looking at a *lot* of apartments. Also, baby-wrangling. #

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Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:45:05 GMT

[22:57] <kemayo> Another long day. Spent it all with the in-laws at a party. Delicious ribs. #
[23:41] <kemayo> In positive development for Kellie, watching me give her a backrub put the baby to sleep. #
[11:24] <kemayo> Day 3 in Missouri: massive thunderstorm. Not waking up Danielle, thankfully. #

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Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:45:05 GMT

[23:31] <delphina2k> @gamoid I'm not sure; it's a Southern chain. Whenever we're in a region with one, @shmitz won't let me talk about going there, even in jest. #
[06:47] <kemayo> Yesterday was *really* tiring. In St. Louis now, though. #
[06:49] <kemayo> @delphina2k @gamoid I always liked Waffle House. They have them in St. Louis, too. :D #
[08:12] <gamoid> @kemayo @delphina2k Do you guys have IHOP? Please tell me you at least have IHOP. #
[08:19] <delphina2k> @kemayo How's the baby on planes? #
[08:34] <kemayo> @gamoid IHOP is, indeed, present. #
[08:34] <kemayo> @delphina2k Not bad. A bit nervous, but she was willing to be reassured. #

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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[23:05] <kemayo> Daggerfall released for free: http://bit.ly/11r2FW
(this takes me back) #
[02:28] <kemayo> Up late packing for the trip to St. Louis. 6am flight == pain. #

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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[11:25] <kemayo> Ah, good, it looks like the CD version of Loom: http://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/ #

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Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[10:48] <gamoid> I wish I could hate DreamHost to death. #
[11:06] <kemayo> @gamoid I've never had a problem with them... #
[11:12] <gamoid> @kemayo I mean, mostly they're okay. But I'm managing something like 400 subdomains and they're sl-o-o-o-o-w. #
[17:01] <kemayo> Went ahead and bought http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1764/ -- insanely good deal. #
[17:02] <kemayo> @gamoid Just the waiting for the DNS records to update? #

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Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:45:05 GMT

[21:19] <kemayo> Good news everyone: http://bit.ly/LvSNp #
[23:01] <utenatai> @kemayo Pitney blogs there is some feeling that the Times has overstated the influence and importance of the statement #
[13:51] <micahgoulart> A person with a 1hr commute has to earn 40% more money to be as satisfied with life as someone who walks to the office. http://bit.ly/dUDu2 #
[15:13] <kemayo> Ooo, classic LucasArts games on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/news/2644/ (I have fond memories of the adventure games on that list.) #
[15:13] <kemayo> This is icky, but *does* look really useful: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003808.php #
[15:16] <kemayo> @utenatai I knew that the ARTQ has no direct power, but I think it's a good sign that a mainstream religious group is opposing the regime. #
[15:17] <kemayo> @micahgoulart I know *I* got a lot happier once I started working from home! #
[16:24] <kemayo> I uploaded a YouTube video -- Sitting up http://bit.ly/XmpQQ #
[16:30] <kemayo> Interesting that random promotions outperform merit-based promotions: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23800/ #
[16:31] <kemayo> Wow, youtube was slow about posting that notification. I uploaded that video two days ago! #

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A jQuery quirk that bit me

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:59:26 GMT

deviantART just upgraded to jQuery 1.3, and we found an undocumented jQuery change that broke some things.

The behavior of the :enabled selector changed. Before it selected all enabled form elements, now it selects all enabled and non-hidden form elements. This bit us, because we were using jQuery to assemble some form elements to submit over xmlhttprequest... and now some hidden fields weren't getting included.

This means that if you were using :enabled, you now need to use :not(:disabled) to get the old behavior.

A bit of googling turned up that this is a deliberate change, to match the behavior of querySelectorAll in browsers that have implemented it. I'd disagree with the phrasing John Resig used, "more standards compliant", since "enabled" has a specific meaning in the standards.

This should really have been in the release notes...

(This is a repost from my more bloggy blog.)

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:45:05 GMT

[09:52] <JohnBooty> @kemayo How is TortoiseGit? Thumbs up? Ready for daily use? #
[12:34] <kemayo> I am tempted: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1764/ #
[12:35] <kemayo> @JohnBooty It works pretty well, in my experience. It's a bit less stable than TortoiseSVN, but that could just be my using the Windows 7 RC #
[13:09] <JohnBooty> @kemayo Are there any issues with having both TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGIT running at once? I'd guess not, but am curious. #
[15:30] <kemayo> @JohnBooty I haven't noticed any problems with them both running at once. #

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Moving thoughts

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:59:25 GMT

Spurred on by certain responses to Kellie's recent post about moving, we've been thinking about the question "why do you want to move, anyway?"

We're not tied to Southern California. We have some friends here, but they're mostly so far away from us that moving across the country wouldn't particularly influence how often we see 'em. This'd be more of a factor if we were deeply social people who went out with friends all the time... but we're not.

In fact, we have certain complaints about SoCal. We're sick of the smog -- it's really gross to know it's there. Now we have a baby, the California school system worries us. The region is aggressively pedestrian-unfriendly.

Cost of living down here is high. We could move back to St. Louis and live in a fancy apartment for about what we're paying here, with the option of moving to somewhere about equivalent to our current place for significantly less if we didn't like downtown loft living.

We find that we miss green things. SoCal is pretty much a desert, after all.

Related to that, SoCal winters are nice and warm, but the summers are painful. Also, I miss proper cold weather.

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Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:45:05 GMT

[23:40] <kemayo> Kellie is looking at apartments in St. Louis. I keep hearing quasi-sexual moans of pleasure. >_> #
[23:48] <kemayo> Though, looking at this place, I can sympathize with her viewpoint. http://bit.ly/7tLF8 #
[00:37] <broccoman> @kemayo You two are moving back there? #
[00:57] <kemayo> @broccoman Don't know - it's more that we've been looking at places we might move, and noticed that St. Louis is still an attractive value. #
[15:49] <JohnBooty> I know the cool kids are using git, but TortoiseSVN isn't so bad. Yes, totally different league. #
[17:11] <kemayo> @JohnBooty There's TortoiseGIT now. :D #

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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[10:17] <shmitz> And I find myself followed by a surge of mapping people! This may motivate me to use this a little more often. =P #
[11:33] <kemayo> Cutest. Revolutionary. Ever. http://bit.ly/CbjbQ #
[11:34] <kemayo> @shmitz It's interesting how saying random words trigger bursts of watchers, isn't it? #

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Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:45:09 GMT

[17:43] <kemayo> This Futurama set is pretty tempting. And a good price. http://bit.ly/I2TYN #

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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:45:05 GMT

[21:29] <kemayo> I don't buy many games. I will buy this one. http://bit.ly/5As8G #
[21:29] <delphina2k> Do you suppose it's safe for me to upgrade to IE7 now? It's getting ridiculous to make websites work in IE6, methinks. #
[23:29] <kemayo> @delphina2k If you avoid triggering standards mode in IE7, it behaves *exactly* like IE6. That's what deviantART does... #
[23:47] <kemayo> I installed Dropbox, and it seems to be pretty awesome: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTEzNzI1MzI5 #
[23:48] <kemayo> Disclosure: That was totally a referral link. If you sign up with it, we both get 500MB bonus space. FYI. #
[06:48] <gamoid> @kemayo Just signed up. Enjoy your bonus space. :-p #
[11:35] <kemayo> @gamoid Turns out I was wrong. A mere 250MB. Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! #
[14:59] <bbelland> @kemayo That should give you another 250. #
[15:52] <kemayo> @bbelland Woo #

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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[21:48] <kemayo> Windows 7 installer: much less polished than that of Ubuntu. #
[16:51] <kemayo> #windows7 I'm missing virtual desktops from Ubuntu #

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Windows 7

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:34:16 GMT

I installed the Windows 7 RC last night. Haven't really had much time to use it yet.

My first impression was that the installer was horribly unpolished. Pretty much entirely because it paused for 2-3 minutes at a couple of early points with no progress indicators -- I couldn't tell if it had crashed or was just thinking really hard about the next step.

Obvious difference from Ubuntu is that it comes with no useful software, and I have to go download the things I'll be using. This really is one of those areas where Linux wins.

Sound works out of the box, and I feel confident that it will keep on working. This is an area where Ubuntu has recently decided to start failing, which is why it's even worth mentioning.

UAC is annoying still, but I think it does happen a bit less than it did in Vista. I still might turn it off. Depends on how much trouble I have once I'm out of the setting-things-up phase.

The new taskbar with its pinned applications definitely seems like they decided to copy the OSX dock. It feels sort of awkward right now, but I'm going to give it some time to get used to it.

We shall see.

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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:45:48 GMT

[11:16] <moonbeam13> Why are people on twitter.. buying me? #
[12:02] <kemayo> How to not look sympathetic: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-rescind17-2009jun17,0,3508020,full.story #
[12:03] <kemayo> @moonbeam13 You're excellent value for money? #
[14:15] <utenatai> So TODAY suddenly my entire twitter page is green? Way to be late to the party, flist. #
[15:23] <kemayo> All I do on Twitter lately is post funny links: http://bit.ly/3DpYh #
[15:24] <kemayo> @utenatai A possible sign that you're among the more politically aware people you know. #
[16:00] <shmitz> The 405: where a car stalled in the middle of a freeway doesn't actually slow down late afternoon traffic #
[16:02] <kemayo> @shmitz I hope that didn't mean you had trouble getting to your interview... #
[16:03] <kemayo> Having looked into Windows 7, Libraries seem interesting. Also, finally a new-folder keyboard shortcut. #

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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[03:00] <kemayo> Oh wow, System Shock is 15 years old. ;_; And Ultima Underworld is 17 years old. ;_; I PLAYED THEM WHEN THEY WERE NEW. #
[16:48] <kemayo> Craigslist, by Weird Al: http://bit.ly/3K0exk #
[18:42] <kemayo> Domain of Heroes looks kinda fun: http://bit.ly/yHeRM #

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Windows

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:02 GMT

As got tweeted earlier, I found when I booted into Windows XP earlier tonight for the first time in over a year, that I kind of miss it.

Somehow, it feels... smoother than the Gnome desktop. I think, as much as anything, that's because my Windows usage was heavily centered around using the Run dialog to navigate everything. I never remember about alt-F2 popping up the Gnome equivalent, because it's massively less convenient than splat-r. (And the gnome keybindings editor doesn't let you bind things to the windows/splat key, which is pretty dumb.)

With that and the difficulty I've had trying to use Steam on Linux lately, it's tempting me towards trying out Windows 7.

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[02:24] <kemayo> As rioters go, I have to admit that these guys are doing pretty well. http://bit.ly/3DPXM4 #
[18:54] <kemayo> I just had to boot into windows XP to test a networking problem. I find that I kind of miss it. #

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Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[19:15] <kemayo> Entered my Half Life cd key into Steam. It interprets it as the Half Life Platinum Pack. Pretty cool. #

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Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[17:50] <kemayo> What he said: http://bit.ly/g6wgd #

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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[15:30] <kemayo> Reminds me of some of my own dealings with AdSense: http://bit.ly/xeca1 #
[15:32] <kemayo> @rdonoghue If you don't have a microwave, it's probably just because you cook real food. Which isn't much harder than nuking tv dinners! #
[15:35] <kemayo> @rdonoghue More to the point, my microwave is nowadays almost only used for heating soup. I'd miss it if it were gone... but not much. #

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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:45:04 GMT

[18:27] <shmitz> @kemayo That looks all manner of fake. #
[11:53] <kemayo> @shmitz I dunno. If it was a fake, I'd have expected it to be more legible. #
[13:48] <kemayo> This is worth complaining about? Really? http://bit.ly/kDhP5 #
[13:48] <kemayo> @rdonoghue Isn't it FUN? #

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Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:45:03 GMT

[04:47] <kemayo> Sad, David Eddings died: http://bit.ly/Z9OJT #
[11:52] <kemayo> Wow: http://imgur.com/uRTLo.jpg #

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