Where Are The Wise Men?

I think Ted Leung has said it all about why Google Talk is important in his post Modern Attraction and Instant Messaging

To summarize: the fact that Google Talk’s client sucks/doesn’t work on Mac/doesn’t work on Linux, it’s the fact that it’s open. That I can use Gaim to talk to someone using iChat [...]

King’s Dragon is Volume 1 of the Crown of Stars series by Kate Elliott. Book 7 is due out on Feburary, so now it looks like a good time to get started with this series!

Elliott paints a world that is in parallel with one in our past — most of the world is directly [...]

I usually don’t like these, but I’ve always liked Myers-Briggs and it fasinates me that I’m still the same personality type even though I’ve changed a lot sense I first took Myers-Briggs when I was a college freshman.

Harry Potter Personality Quiz by Pirate Monkeys Inc.

Cygwin’s bash usually just works — it gets the environment settings from the system (much like cmd does) and then you have it when the prompt starts up.

But sometimes don’t get that — the system you want to use comes with a batch file that sets up the environment and, in order for you to [...]

Matt informed me that comments weren’t working — specifically that you are required to register and registration is off. Now registration is on. The first time you comment you will have to register and the comment will be moderated. But after the first time you comment, it will go straight to the [...]

Maybe you saw this on my handy de.lirio.us feed over on the sidebar, but it seems that rxvt on Cygwin works without X — so I don’t have to suffer through X on my machine!

Yes, rxvt is better than Cygwin’s standard bash prompt — but “better” if you like Xwindows cut-and-paste and other things you [...]

I have been thinking for many months that my blogging was taking a new direction. Not on purpose, but organically. And there were many other things that I wanted to blog about. There were also features that Blosxom was missing (Trackbacks anyone?). And there were other hiccups in my Blosxom [...]

I have some byte arrays given to me from a Java API and I want to write it to a file via Jython. I thought it would as easy as:

jpg = open(”pic.jpg”,”wb”) for b in bytes: jpg.write(b) jpg.close()

But, of course, it’s not that easy:

Traceback (innermost last): File “getbinarydata.py”, line 28, in ? TypeError: write(): [...]

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