October, 2004

  1. The Tree outside my window ???-October 22, 2004

    October 22, 2004 by Eddie Gonzalez

    They just cut down the tree that stood next to my apartment today. Now the outside is much less pretty. In fact it’s just plain ugly. Not to mention that now everyone can see into my room… Maybe I should get a curtain now. :(

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  2. Third Post!

    October 22, 2004 by Eddie Gonzalez

    Well, I’ve made little progress in pyfolder this week. But a lot of progress on my non-cs classes. I managed to get a B in my Japanese oral mid-term, I’m really happy about what Takabatake said: “Although Inaccurate, you could communicate very well.” I also got a 3.5 on fluency and a 4 on “culture (non-verbal elements)” So really all I have to do is fill the gaping holes in my vocabulary. I finally oficially dropped Japanese Literature class, and took my Japanese Society and Japanese History mid-term I think I did well in both. I tried to finish all my Kanji homework today, but I only finished the first one by 12am… I probably wont get a second one done this weekend. Trying to get multimedia key support into Quod Libet will take up a lot of Friday and Saturday. Hopefully ADD medication will help me get work done.

    I’m hanging out on #mono lately, it’s really cool seeing Nat and Miguel actually chatting. I don’t know why but I kind of look up to Miguel. But in a different way than I look up to Joe. I didn’t really look up to Miguel until I saw a video of him doing a presentation on Mono in Mexico, and it was in that presentation that I learned what iFolder actually does. And now I’m working on pyfolder :)

    I’m trying to sync this blog with my live journal, and I’m going to start posting things I posted on my old blogs this weekend.

    I met a cool guy known as Darkmyst today. He’s working on a program that allows two or more people to edit a text file simultaniously. His method of using Jabber chat rooms to syncronize the file among the users gave me a few new ideas on how to implement multiple user pyfolder.

    I started lurking in a Japanese chatroom a couple of days ago to see if I can improve my Kanji. I love how many faces the Japanese can make with ISO-2022-JP. There are some really funny ones I saw yesterday. Maybe I’ll find a way to post them on here correctly. But that’s where the fun ends, I can’t understand a single thing they say in there without a dictionary. I’m so far away from reading and writing Japanese… It really sucks. I hate Kanji.

    Speaking of Kanji, the author of Tomboy, Alex Graveley said that Japanese is pretty. I was showing him a little problem with GTKSpell and using Japanese. After he said this, I really started to notice how pretty Japanese really is. Especially hiragana, but the kanji does help a little.

    I’m seriously enjoying the open-source world right now. It’s such a great time to be a programmer right now. People are making great new programs using mono, and python too. I wish Linux can stay this way forever. (As in no SCO cases, patent lawsuits, and other clashes with the proprietary world.)

    I really hate people who can’t understand free software, they are missing out. Seriously.

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  3. Yay for PyFolder

    October 11, 2004 by Eddie Gonzalez

    I just got back from a 2 and a half hour presentation explaning what PyFolder will be, and how it will be implemented. I had to explain a few things like Linux, Mono/C#, iFolder, Python, User Mode Linux, Firewalls, XML, Wiki, and Blogs. Plus I had to explain the differences between Python and Java, and the differences between public domain, Free software, and open-source. It was seriously an awesome experience. I am way over my head with this hole PyFolder thing, but if I can do it, I will get credit in the class :-D Totally awesome! The only bad thing is that I completely missed my Intro to Japanese Society class. oh well, this is more important anyway.

    Presentations are hard to do especially long ones. I felt like I was always out of breath, sometimes suffocating because I was inhailing more air then exhailing. I’ll have to get used to it I guess.

    In other news I asked for 20 Ubuntu CDs after their first release. 10 X86, 5 AMD64 and 5 PPC. I can’t wait to switch my desktop, but at the same time dreading it, because there’s definately friction when you switch distros. Especially when your computer works just fine. In linux it’s not a matter of loosing your preferences, but a matter of re-installing all the software you had before. But I’ll be freed from the complete uselessness that is Gentoo.

    I’m amazed at the quality of WordPress, it’s awesome beyond my wildest dreams… so in general I’m really happy right now. So back to reality, I have Three! Kanji assignments due tomorrow for Japanese. :-( I can’t belive I let myself get so behind.

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  4. Woo! First post!

    October 10, 2004 by Eddie Gonzalez

    Hey I got wordpress working!

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