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…