I’ve made a minor update to clockwork that now allows you to immediately see how much longer the current workday is supposed to last, from the output of clockwork howlong. This update came out of a particular need that I had at my new summer job at the Math …

As part of the course requirements for the mechanics class I took, a team of which I was a part designed a Rattleback. A rattleback is a top that appears to have a preferred direction of rotation, i.e. if you start spinning it the wrong way, it (unintuitively) will …

I have released a new version of the Boost Bindings that fixes a problem with UMFPACK now typically being packaged as part of UFsparse. While I don’t think that this kind of packaging is a smart idea, Debian has recently jumped on the bandwagon, and thus this fix is …

While I don’t typically propagate knitting or crochet content, this one was too good to pass up. :)

So, if you have a pretty pitiful-looking tree outside your window, why don’t you do it a favor, and…

…KNIT IT A SWEATER? :D

Oh, and Josie (whose friend Jay pointed …

I have generally been very happy with my new Samsung YP-MT6Z, until I hit a snag today. From my tests, it seems that the total lengh of all folder names on the device cannot exceed a certain number, on the order of a kilobyte or so. That boils down …

As I previously reported, my old laptop, aramis, got rained on and sustained water damage resulting in—lo and behold—not a dead computer. In fact, most of it was fine, it even booted into X, and all of its components were usable, it would just always crash after around …

Since the semester at Brown starts back tomorrow, I was a little concerned about my total lack of writing material. I still have my non-standard ruled paper from last year, but since a) it’s not a standard size, not even US-Letter, much less A4 and b) I don …

I spent today doing something very laudable: :yes: I went on an extended bike ride. Of course, riding your bike is not half as fun if you can’t waste some time letting your computer process the greatness of what was achieved. Fortunately, the Google Maps Pedometer comes to the …