Dave Kellam

It took me awhile to figure out how to get gnome installed and running but I did. It wasn’t too hard looking back at it. There’s a lot of nice things to help you out, like Fink and the graphical FinkCommander. Here’s a guide to help get the the x11 system running with Fink. I guess the key for me is to read some documentation, i can’t just dive into things and expect to know what i’m doing. All in all, my system is doing some neat things: running OS X, with Virtual PC running WinXP and XDarwin running GNOME.

I ran into some file permission crap when I was doing all of this. I found a nice little calculator to help out with chmod values.

Here’s a good terminal guide for OS X, aimed at people with little knowledge of unix.

An interview with Richard Gabriel, he holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and an MFA in Poetry. There’s some good talk of how the way computer programming is taught should be changed to reflect the creativity necessary to develop software.

I’ve been playing around with some stuff this afternoon, including KungTunes. It allows me to get at the playlist data from iTunes using AppleScript, which basically means I can have this nice page that says what the last 25 songs I listened to were.

This guy has a little bit too much time on his hands.

This afternoon’s task after waking up was to convert the database from DB to mysql. I think all went well, but I could be wrong.

School kicked the shit out of me for a couple weeks. I didn’t see a whole lot of my house or computer. When I did, I seemed to be working on assignments. Exam season is here, which means slacking off for awhile before actually getting down to studying.

I’ve started getting ideas again for websites. It’s like a lot of my ideas were forcibly removed when I lost harddrives in the summer. I’m going to start updating things again and spend less timing staring vacantly at the monitor. I started off by upgrading to Moveable Type 2.51. Next in the pipes are some redesigns and work on various projects.

I seem to forget that I can jot down whatever stupid ideas come into my head. It seems that I’m always opening a text editor to write shit down in. Maybe I could script something between BBEdit and Moveable Type, so I could just do new entries like that. Hmm.