Received my Linux Format magazine in the mail. The joke is on me. It's the same one that was given away free via bittorrent.

Happy Birthday wishes from the internets to my Mother-in-Law. She won't get the message, but history says it's here on the internet forever.

Barbies FTW. Going to hunt for Kirk and Spock Barbie dolls this weekend. Original packaging 20 years later, anyone?

Experiencing a case of "I'm never going to use this in real life" like people say in school. Thing is, I'm at work.

Rawking out to "Dragon Ash" and looking forward to a nondescript evening at home. I'd have to say, those are the best kinds of evenings.

Suffering a case of "brain-dead" today. An awesome side-effect: 2+1/2 hours have passed like a fart in the wind.

Shifting gears at work. In the spirit of "body building", I wonder how my brain would look in a speedo at a "brain-building" competition?

Trying not to have my view of Orson Scott Card's novels skewed after reading that the guy is kind of a dick. http://ping.fm/7y2Z9

Saw Wolverine tonight. Awesome movie. Bummed about the liberties taken with Deadpool, though.

Spent the last hour wrestling with Eclipse only to realize my problem was with libgcj. Ubuntu users, don't install Eclipse from Synaptic.

It's Friday and that means today is *AWESOME* to the max.

GoDaddy doesn't want to fix their servers to properly display SVGs. So do it yourself: http://ping.fm/UGGdK

Feeding MegaHAL the text of Alice in Wonderland via a Perl script and the AI::MegaHAL module. MegaHAL needs more...

Perusing a "Swine Map" to track outbreaks. http://ping.fm/iR49a P.S., are you infected? http://ping.fm/6cGt5

How To: Install XBMC (formerly known as XBox Media Center) in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. http://ping.fm/U09lP

Perusing the behind-the-scenes activity of Introverision Software (@ivsoftware) and Darwinia+. http://ping.fm/Tq0Hp

Kicking back, tapping out some Java. Listening to MC Frontalot. So excited he's confirmed his participation for PAX.

Hrm... better make that "Content" because for some reason the "copyright-c" wouldn't display. �

I'm half-way through Cory Doctorow's "�ontent", and getting a lot out of it. Next up, Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture".

How insane is it that Valve's marketing is so effective that I would consider buying a SECOND Orange Box because of the $9.99 price tag.

Just booked lodgings at the Green Tortoise hostel in Seattle for Penny Arcade Expo 2009. w00t!

Hooray for birthdays! Didn't pack a lunch today 'cause I knew I'd be eating cake. I love food. Hoping against obesity... and diabetes :D :D

Inspired by @doctorow and at least one of his essays, I think tonight after work I'm going to configure my Linux PC to play my BluRay movies

Installing Ubuntu 9.04 from the 11.1MB mini.iso

It's so tempting to download the latest Ubuntu on 0-day... The updates are terribly slow for the first week, though.

Eating my penne pasta like a game of Jenga, and there's no one around to tell me not to play with my food.

Yes! Robotic penguins. How cool is that? http://ping.fm/NCngM

Looking forward to Friday evening. I hope I didn't mis-understand that it's a dinner. Mmm. Dinner.

Just finished watching the first X-Men movie. The X-Men boxed trilogy is an impressive 9 discs large.

Just scored the last Blu-Ray X-Men Trilogy on the shelf at Future Shop. Best date-night ever.

Slowly convincing myself that XML is the way to go for storing and retrieving saved game information and individual levels/challenges. #java

Slowly rocking Slick with Java. It's been almost two years since I last sat down for some serious Java programming sessions. It feels good.

Putting some time into Generic2DPlatformer. Lots of grand ideas in my head. A few make it to paper. Will see what's do-able.

Busy day keeping the provincial exams in order... It's always busy when the exams are going on.

Running dungeons in Dungeon Runners. It's been so long since I logged in.

Broke my car key :-/ Crap.

Home with my wife's brand-new mountain bike. It's as much a gift for her as it is for me.

Working... but it's an awesome day to go for a walk around Rattlesnake Point. http://ping.fm/8lFBw

Learning vim. Look, Mom! I'm a real programmer now.

Enjoyed an evening of riding mountain bikes through a park with my wife. Squeezed in a pizza, beer and cake, too.

Starting to fear for my job. Wondering if this year will see a growing trend of "any reason to fire you" to cut costs. Hello, open source?

Listening to a couple co-workers tell a tale of their experience with a flash mob this lunchtime.

Daydreaming. Yeah... daydreaming. :-)

Backing up a tv-series boxed set... that's fair use, right? Thanks for believing in it, EFF.

Sale on TorrentBoy t-shirts until Wednesday. Save10.40% off your order. http://zazzle.com/torrentboy*

Forcing myself to get some work done tonight. Ignoring QuakeLive by booting into Ubuntu.

Playing with the Slick library. Loving that it's taking care of the menial setup.

Kicking back with Quake Live and looking forward to the Linux client.

Falling asleep to MC Frontalot fronting phat beats beside my bed. Touring Wonka's chocolate factory while sugar plums dance inside my head.

Crash, the lovable teddy-bear. He's my latest design: http://ping.fm/QpNxn*

How can a print-on-demand service (Zazzle) not support Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg)?

Digesting birthday cake. And how!

I can't wait for the day that either a)PEBKAC'ers stop using computers or b)PEBKAC'ers start using them and realize there's a "new internet"

Sharing the free(speech)software love with my Strata council via OpenOffice. Someone complained about not having cash for MS Office purchase

w00t w00t! The Linux Journal scramble for a year-subscription is providing the first issue. Yeah!

Gaining some ground with my project. It's been so long, like revisiting 4th year university.

Going from motivated to zero in one sentence, flat. It's a great day outside.

After playing with the test examples for LWJGL I realize that OpenGL availability depends on whether or not I have OpenGL installed... duh

Reading up on LWJGL but I can't figure out whether or not it includes everything needed for programming OpenGL or not. /noob

Undertaking the slow process of modularizing these classes into islands that make sense. Slow going while warp speeding with uber-coffee.

Watching the brand-new just-posted-today Charlie the Unicorn. http://ping.fm/ycyH5

Brewing up a flagon of motivation-juice. Hello Caffeine. Hello, evening. Goodbye sleep ^_^

Looking forward to the end of the work day. I've got some overdue projects (ie things from the weekend) to finish. You know what you are.

Success:More effective to recruit self-selected volunteers than to manage buildings full of people who'd rather be doing something else ~ESR

Hacking away with the Standard Widget Toolkit. Trying to make sense of it all. Why do I think it will work better than AWT? 0_o

Being the "fifth wheel" at the kitchen table as my wife and her girly friends are watching "Mamma Mia!" in the living room.

Binge-night. Tacitos, jalapeno poppers, chips and salsa... cream-filled doughnuts. Yeah!

Looking for the tool used to update OpenSUSE. Usually in Ubuntu, after a new install, you have to "aptitude safe-upgrade" and "dist-upgrade"

Installing Debian and OpenSUSE. I think I'll attempt a week with each. Ubuntard right here.

I'm getting better with Inkscape... I think. Heading to bed. Might change the zombie avatar after a couple modifications.

Rawking out to Punk Goes Crunk. It ain't nothing but a G-Thing, sez Kyle in all his white-boy nerdishness.

w00t w00t! The Watchmen opens up in the "cheap theatre" tonight. I may not be able to wait until it's on BluRay...

Getting PmWiki's CleanUrls working with a subdomain. Just messing around.

Creating a new label in GMail. Title: April Fools. I think last year I just deleted them all. Danged newsletters.

Dang packetrats. Just when you need a swarm of them to visit your part of the TorrentSphere, Leeches get their attention and drive them away

Claiming my consolation prize from TuxRadar/Linux Format. Thank you, TuxRadar and Linux Format!

Deciding that Inkscape should not be relied on for colouring. Perhaps I'm the last to know.

Sketching. Finding I should at least have a pencil. Sketching in ink works but it's permanent and gets messy.

Catch 22. You love technology... until it gets so damned awesome that it takes your job away. (Not me. Just saying).

Looking back and glad I didn't rush through University. Wishing I could be back, adding another degree.

Spewing philosophy re: TorrentBoy and open source submission. http://ping.fm/GZiZt

Doing my duty. Dutying it up. Hehe. Doody.

Heading out to "The Talkin' Donkey" http://ping.fm/rA9cz for a hot Java infusion. Mmm, caffeine. The programmer's life-blood.

Doing some much needed catch up with Full Circle Magazine.

Nice! My email just won the Japanese lottery. Now if only *I* could win the Japanese lottery, I'd be rolling in the Yen.

Drinking a glass of red wine, listening to The Darkness , tapping out Java code and trying my hardest to be awesome. I feel good :)

Bwahaha! Drawing familiarity to "The little old lady on the phone who tells her life story to a telemarketer." Getting back to work now ^_^

@1889ca You are very welcome. And anyone listening in the TorrentSphere, follow this link and be entertained. http://1889.ca/

Hoping that the Nintendo DS drops in price now that the DSi is out. I'd buy another DS for around $100.

Deleting spam from my gmail. Doesn't it seem that this week has seen a lot more spam than ever?

w00t w00t! We're presenting the North Okanagan Linux Users' Group publicly in April.

Huh. First time I've come across GoDaddy's advertised 1% downtime. How inconvenient.

Mocking up a site for "TorrentBoy". If it's not used officially, I'll at least be able to use it.

Dear Sun Microsystems. Thank you for starting a contest and then making the programming language available on all OS' except the one I use.

Trying to watch Jupiter Broadcasting's "Cross Development Programming" videos in my living room. Then three very talkative girls walk in.

Got lucky and recovered my Sticky Notes from another window that I had open. Celebrating by chair-dancing to "Natalie's Rap".

Noooooooooooooooo-oooooooooooooo-ooooooooooooooo. I just lost all my sticky notes in Google-apps Sticky Note! :( Sad Monkey.

Crossing my fingers that I'll be showing off at next year's GDC.

Does boredom encourage genius? I don't know. I'm not bored... my mind just wanders. I can't stop thinking.

Awesome new idea in children's literature! Get in on the ground floor: http://ping.fm/yyjEx