mahalo.

My first championship at Rollin Ice:

This one took a bit longer than at Dry Ice and Fremont Iceoplex, but in both those cases, we had a considerably more stacked team. This one I was actually nervous about, and my first win as the captain of a team, which made winning all the more satisfying.

The game ended 3-2, but 3 of the goals were scored within the last minute or so. One of them an empty netter, which turned out to be the game winner. They really turned it on that last minute or so of the game, but we managed to hold them off, with Archie kneeling on the puck after the final faceoff to run off the last 5 seconds of the game.

this is to address carl’s emacs issues (although, it seems like the experiment is already over).

To repeat a (series of) command
C - x ( [begin recording macro]
… Do a series of commands
C - x ) [end recording macro]
C -x e [execute macro]

If you want to execute a command multiple times,
M - [[:digit:]]+
(i.e. M - 9 M - 0 M - 0 C -x e executes your macro 900 times. And remember you don’t have to let go of M, it’s just clearer to express it that way lest you hold M-9 and then let go and start hitting 0. You’ll wonder what the heck is going on and just hate emacs some more)

The thing that gets me about vi is the apparently inability to page up/down, sure, you can do “24 down” or something, but then how do you repeat that? “.” is only for text-modifying commands. The thing I like about vi is yeah it’s quick, and also in its regexp replace you can use perl-style regexs, whereas in emacs you’re forced to use (afaik) posix-style regexs, which are a pain in the butt. The visual feedback is nice too, but i’m guessing vi can be configured to handle that

This movie is what the Spirits Within should have been centered around - the Final Fantasy world that we already know from the video game.

It could be a bit longer (it runs at about 100 minutes). But it is definitely a beautiful movie.

The DVD is available from Amazon on January 10, 2006.

I went to the U2 concert in oakland tonight.

it was amazing.


(even though the pictures are not. but give me some credit. we were sitting in the highest row in the building!)

dpreview full review of S80

it turned out to be a good decision to hold off on the s70 for the exact reason that i had mentioned before. it looks like the s80 both incorporates the digic ii processor, for fast focus, and it also managed to (although, i honestly had not expected it) cure the purple-fringing in wide-angle shots. apparently the macro zoom is not that great, but really, c’mon now, at 8 megapixels, you can just crop it all!

the best thing about this comp isn’t that it’s fast (which is hard to tell anyways, since it’s still just fedora running on here), but that it’s really quiet. that’s pretty sweet.

downside is that i’m running 64-bit linux, and it gets more complicated to configure and install apps. For the most part, bugs are easy to fix, but every once in a while, it requires a bit of tweaking. As before, I’ll be detailling my experiences on the Fedora page