The Contents of Will’s Head
March 16th, 2010 — tinkering
These are the commands I just entered:
git add .target/. I’ll undo that add…git reset --hard HEADThat second command isn’t, “undo the last add”, it’s “reset the sources to the previous version.” That means my work from the last day and a half is now gone. Grr… The command should have been just:
git reset
March 14th, 2010 — tinkering
I’ve been learning Smack and have been testing connections with different services. A couple that took a little figuring out:
February 25th, 2010 — tinkering
OpenID is a federated login service. That means I create one account and then I can log into any site that supports openid. This works fine unless your provider stops providing (like mine has).
Google to the rescue, your Google profile is also an openid provider.
February 21st, 2010 — tinkering
I’ve been playing with John Resig’s Learning Advanced Javascript and wanted to make a few notes…
January 22nd, 2010 — tinkering
I’ve been playing around with git for a while and today I hit a problem with the new release of jQuery. Version 1.3.2 could be loaded into svgs, but v.1.4 dies.
To check it out, I thought I’d give GitHub a try.
January 21st, 2010 — tinkering
I like to use SVGs in my posts. They’re easy to create in Inkscape, scriptable and anyone who wants to can download and edit them. The problem is that though the specification is seven years old, IE still lacks SVG support.
The SVGWeb plugin fixes IE by inserting a flash applet to render the image.
Continue reading →January 14th, 2010 — tinkering
For years, I have version controlled my websites, first using CVS and then subversion. As part of my masters thesis, I am moving to git for versioning.
This requires figuring out how to handle my basic use case of allowing me to pull parts of the site and edit them from various locations on the net and push changes to the web server for publication.
October 14th, 2009 — tinkering
If anyone should want to contact me, my phone # is 202-309-3482. (Text messages cost me money, so don’t send lots.) My e-mail is will@dhappy.org.
May 21st, 2009 — tinkering
About a year ago I was in Asheville for my little brother’s birthday. To celebrate the day, his wife gave him one of the cooler presents I’ve seen: she got him tattooed.
Apparently, years ago Matt came up with an idea for a tattoo — a series of marks at one inch intervals from wrist to bicep, and equidistant to each of pair of those marks, a smaller mark.
My brother is an avid fisherman and the marks are positioned relative to the tips of his fingers so whenever he makes a catch, he just lays it down his arm and knows exactly how long it is.
While waiting on Matt, I spent about an hour sitting in the lobby of the tattoo parlor chatting with the folks looking to get their bodies decorated. I’d always thought of tattooing in terms of tribal bands and tramps stamps — as a way to fit in and try to be cool. After talking to a half dozen people, I started to see tattooing for the personal art it most frequently is.
It was on that night I decided to get a tattoo, but it has taken me a couple years to figure out what I want.
April 2nd, 2009 — high, tinkering
My biggest problem with lucid dreaming is recognizing that I am dreaming. Lots of the time I wake up and I’ll remember my dream, but I didn’t realizing I was dreaming while it was going on.
One of the ways you’re supposed to check if you’re dreaming is to hold your breath. In a dream, theoretically, you just hang out without breathing.
So far I’ve not had much luck with it. In my dreams I feel like I have to breathe, so eventually I do and wake up pissed that my dreams tricked me.
The funny thing is now, every so often I’m doing something and I ask myself, “am I asleep?” After all, my dreams seem natural enough when they’re going on, so this doesn’t feel like a dream, but that’s not proof.
I figure worst case scenario is I hold my breath till I black out. To date my curiosity hasn’t lasted more than about fifteen seconds. ☺
