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locate your files!

This is just a quick set of tips about the super-duper-handy locate command at, well, the command line.First off, it’s called locate. If you don’t have it installed, it may be contained in a package called findutils-locate (a “shout-out” to all my fellow SUSE distro users)Secondly, to manually update the...

Planet Hula theme

For anyone interested in the Planet Hula space theme I made a while back, you can grab a tarball of the version of Planet we used which also contains the theme.I have also made a quick example page too, in case you’d like to remember what it looks like. Notes:...

Funny, I shrunk the Jimmac

Here’s a photo of myself and Jakub Steiner, in Germany, where we (after finding the old towne shrink ray) are demonstrating the difference between 128×128 and 22×22 icons.(If I have too much more the beer and cheese while here, I might stretch like a SVG icon.)

Photo: Salt Lake morning mist

It’s been a while since I last posted anything, so here’s a picture from December 2004, taken from Antelope Island while I was on a photo trip in Utah with Ryan Collier.

Recent photography things

I went shooting a few pictures around the Boston area in the freezing cold. Then a few days later, in Chinatown for the Chinese New Year and met up with Guy… (View the whole Chinese New Year set)Shortly afterward, I bought a new hard drive (1/2-tb), so I have been...

Beagle logo, in SVG

Hey Kevin, the SVG of the Beagle logo is located at my Primates account. There are different variations of the Beagle graphic (optimized for different sizes), and also the custom Beagle text I designed too.I should probably toss more SVGs of logos I’ve done for work in that directory, sometime....

Not quite Neverland: Peter Pan peanut butter’s special ingredient

Recent news reveals that Peter Pan peanut butter somehow has salmonella.How did this happen?Wikipedia’s article on salmonellosis lists the ways that salmonella is typically spread. The type of salmonella usually associated with infections in humans is called Non-Typhoidal Salmonella. It is usually contracted by ingesting raw or undercooked eggs, or...

Tango on the N800 (a first glimpse)

Since I recently got an N800, I decided it would be a good idea to port Tango icons to it. It looks quite amazing on the device’s tiny high-resolution screen. Even though I made pretty decent progress tonight, there’s still a bit left to go. I want to polish it...