I am not really a huge fan of browser extensions. Most seem kind of excessive or silly and can easily make the browser seem slower than it really is.…

In lieu of writing about something useful, I'll spend some words on this silly blog. I seem to spend more time maintaining it than adding content, so…

I am an XMonad user. There, I said it. I don't use any components of the typical desktop environments except for one: notification-daemon. Notificat…

This came up for the second time in five months yesterday, so I thought I would record it so that I can remember what the deal is next time it happens…

I recently had to do some simple parsing in Python. Aside: the Python requirement isn't particularly principled (I am actually not a huge fan), but I…

Background I bounce around between media players fairly often -- maybe two or three times a year. Lately I have been using Banshee, which works reaso…

A few days ago I was looking for a more robust type-aware cross-reference helper macro for LaTeX. This type of macro lets you specify something like:…

Why a blog? Due to popular demand, I am trying to move some of my ranting and raving to more static and less visible media. At least here they are pe…