http://whereswalden.com Explaining things that don't make sense (and often those that do) Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:58:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en June 20 (0; 114.5 total, 2059.5 to go; -15.0 from pace, -65.5 overall) Today is my first "zero" day: a day where I don't do any hiking down the trail. Excepting a very few crazies, everyone takes zero days every so often, to give the body time to regenerate and the ... http://whereswalden.com/2008/07/03/monson-to-stratton-in-which-the-waters-gradually-receded-from-the-earth/ June 7 Today's move-out day at MIT for graduating seniors, so I'm busy packing my stuff and deciding what should go with me on the trail. Everything else is getting shoved in the van the family brought up here, to be taken home and not touched quite possibly until I'm ... http://whereswalden.com/2008/06/27/katahdin-to-monson-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-water/ Whee! I've "just" been added to p.m.o now, so the peoples of the Mozilla worlds should now be getting my posts. Even better, for those of you who hate having to subscribe both to a planet and to a personal feed to read all their posts, fear not! ... http://whereswalden.com/2008/06/26/hello-planet/ Wow, it's been quite a while since I posted anything here. Since the last post I've been busy at work at MIT. I've taken classes in topics ranging from compilers to cryptography and security to the precisely-defined subject of software engineering. I've spent a couple summers doing ... http://whereswalden.com/2008/06/04/rumors-of-blog-death-greatly-exaggerated/ 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped http://whereswalden.com/2005/09/03/fortune-quote-of-the-day/ I have about 50 Gmail invites to give away. If you want an account, leave a comment with your unobscured email address in the email address box in the comment form. Your email address won't be displayed on the page, so don't worry about getting spam. Also, I'm still ... http://whereswalden.com/2005/03/14/gmail-invites/ Ben finally landed the Firefox Options window in mozilla.org CVS trunk today, after months of anticipation. For those with the know-how, the code was available in non-trunk CVS on the PREFERENCES_20050101_BRANCH branch. As I have sufficient know-how, this wasn't a big problem for me, so I created a ... http://whereswalden.com/2005/02/25/firefox-prefwindowv/ Sign up to get a free Mini Mac! It started with the iPod. Now, they're giving away free Mini Macs. Do I believe it really works? I don't know. I've heard from many people that the free iPods were legitimate. Logically I should believe this would ... http://whereswalden.com/2005/01/19/free-mini-macs/ An ordered priority list: Fix my laptop (or rather, have Dell fix it for me) so that Windows works and so that I can use it without losing power any time I try something CPU- or hard disk-intensive, like building Firefox or Thunderbird Bug 253334 -- Thunderbird needs a Help Viewer Bug 268776 ... http://whereswalden.com/2004/12/07/the-todo-list/ As part of a flurry of needed changes to my laptop, I had to back up all my data and reinstall everything from scratch about two weeks ago. I'm certain I do this far more often than the average power user does (once every several months) and certainly far ... http://whereswalden.com/2004/11/18/breaking-windows/