I think the font here on my blog is too big, on my iMac. But it looks really nicely sized on an iPad. D’oh. Throughout primary & secondary school I stubbornly stuck with Geneva 9 pt. Printed, of course… kids today might not know what that means, but when I was growing up the older… Read more
I’ve wanted to try out a few little projects based around llvm/clang for a while now. I grabbed the sources from svn last week, and have been perusing them, and their documentation, randomly. Today I caught wind of the supposed support for Xcode (in the form of Xcode project files) via CMake. “Awesome!”, I thought,… Read more
I bought the book Bartending last night, to read before bed. I figured it’d be full of amusing and/or interesting anecdotes, and it would restore my will to live after watching The Hunger Games. The problem is not so much what’s there – it is well enough written, and the stories are interesting, even tending… Read more
There’s a difference between releasing three films in a series and releasing a film in three parts. Unfortunately, it appears “The Hunger Games” is in the latter category. A surprisingly depressing movie. It was well produced; it could have had a great ending. Instead it had… basically nothing. It’s worse than a “bad” ending because… Read more
It should be a trivial task. It’s certainly an obvious goal, and I was quite perturbed to find no clear instructions, very little discussion of it at all, and a few awkward speed-bumps on the way. But I did figure it out. So here it is, for those lucky enough to find this before they… Read more
Easter was spent with Marisa’s parents, and her brother whom flew in from Hawaii for the weekend. Though he wasn’t around much, being very busy catching up with friends and running errands and whooshing off to South Lake Tahoe to go snowboarding. It’s a hard life. :P I realised this Easter – why only after… Read more
