I needed an excuse to try Mike's Vala bindings for Xfce, so I created a new little plugin for the panel, the xfce4-stopwatch-plugin.
In the original release announcement on July 28th, I wrote:
This is the first release of the stopwatch panel plugin, which you can use to time yourself on different tasks. It's stable and usable, but quite minimal still.
The functionality is best summarized with this image from the web site:
I installed the web server lighttpd
on my laptop to test some configuration settings. As I didn't want to expose
the server on the network, I uncommented
server.bind = "localhost" from
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.
Then, restarting lighttpd failed with the following error:
getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known ' localhost '
Last semester at Rice, I took the class Cooking with Chef Roger. The man is passionate about his knives, and he gave us a list of brands he recommends. From one of the few scraps of notes that survived, here is Chef Roger Elkhouri's list of quality brands for chef's knives (French knives).
Last week I hacked a couple new features into
cgit, a web interface for
Git, since it's the one I [previously used] on ongardie.net. I added
https:// URLs for the Atom feed and also syntax highlighting
when viewing files.
Version 7 of Vim introduced tabs to the editor, and these are a few of my tab-related tips.
So, I just realized that I re-implemented two built-in Python functions on a small project I'm working on for ETSZONE. I just didn't know that these existed, so I'm writing about them here in case you've overlooked them too.
To start off this blog, I'm writing about things you stick in your ear. I suspect I'll end up writing about techier subjects soon enough. Nevertheless, it's probably worthwhile to attempt to set a precedent of, at least occasionally, writing about something low-tech.