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Archive for April, 2004

Red Hat Worldwide Meeting

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

People are enjoying the Red Hat Worldwide Meeting. Some people seem to be enjoying it more than others it seems.
On Saturday, we all went to Wilmington and participated in some fun events. Guess which of the four events I wound up doing? It happened to be one where we walked around the [...]

Free as in ice cream

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

Today is "free cone day" at most participating Ben & Jerry’s locations. Tomorrow evening is "free scoop night" at Baskin-Robbins.
Ben & Jerry’s is promoting voting whereas Baskin-Robbins is seeding reading (with new book donations to kids in need).
There’s only one Ben & Jerry’s in the area, but several Baskin-Robbins can be are [...]

Measuring mouse movement in menus using Mozilla’s XUL

Thursday, April 22nd, 2004

The Making of a Visualization: Notes on Mousing Behavior in Menus by Andy Edmonds is a fascinating read. In the thesis, Andy used XUL to measure data to produce some neat-looking graphical representations what a user is doing based on time, velocity, direction, and clicks. It would be great to see this [...]

Happy Easter!

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

Happy Easter everyone!

Third year

Thursday, April 1st, 2004

As of today, I’m into my third year at Red Hat. (I have worked two full years at the company as of yesterday.)

Another Bluecurve icons for OOo update

Thursday, April 1st, 2004

I’ve updated the Bluecuve set of OOo icons page with the latest set of completed icons (set 4). I’m currently working on the next set which, when done, should put me at the 1/3 completion mark.