not waving but drowning

new painting

Originally uploaded by Elliot Murphy

jania dropped off the new painting today, two days early! that was a nice surprise. it’s supposed to represent unnavoidable catastrophe and our reaction to circumstances beyond our control. i’m hoping that having it in the new office will help [...]

this was supposed to be a very focused hour, just hammer out a simple form, and deploy it.
somehow I ended up doing some user support, decided to reboot my main system to apply the latest gutsy updates and lost video, and various other random not doing what I sat down to do things. No more [...]

This is a neat little tool. Especially interesting is the idea of using imified via gnome-do

I have some mpeg-2 (vob) video files copied from an unencrypted DVD that I need to slice up. I don’t know why the learning process around video has been so slow for me, but I finally have some tools that I’m happy with.

On Windows, the other guys are using Mpg2Cut2. It works, but my only [...]

hurrah for vesa mount

Originally uploaded by Elliot Murphy

in other news, recursive redirects are freaky.
also, the new django book rocks.

dvorak. cold turkey. ouch. hope i get faster.

last night got the awesome window manager working on my laptop, I really like what they have done with tags instead of virtual desktops. still need to hook up WiFi and battery status into the info bar at the top. I wonder if I can run gnome-do along with awesome? BTW, awesome is the most [...]

the floor was completed on the weekend and today was my first day in the new office. a picture is on flickr, now just need to get the monitor wall mounts.

https://launchpad.net/gc

This rocks, install it now! So much better than gnome-deskbar, and has some very good design ideas internally.