Monthly Archives: March 2006

Well, I made one step forward and about three backwards. I was successful in using a Python program to read output files from my variant of Paul’s best prediction code and plot lactation curves using matplotlib, but the graphs showed … Continue reading →

After listening to me mutter for weeks that the legendary Moleskine notebook is the solution to all of my problems, my awesome wife surprise-gifted me with one. Of course, this now means that I have to quit muttering under my … Continue reading →

The Onion AV Club has a feature in which they ask musicians, etc. to put their iPods on random and discuss the first few tracks that come up, even if they’re embarrassed to admit they’ve got Debbie Gibson on there. … Continue reading →

Well, it’s taken me a few days but I’m starting to get the hang of Fortran again. Oh, sure, it probably shouldn’t have taken me four hours to figure out that the problem I had using a namelist to read … Continue reading →

Boy, I am about Fortran-ed out. I’ve spent the last several days embracing-and-extending some of our legacy code. But, hey, I guess I needed a good excuse to relearn Fortran, right? I can;’t make too strong a claim about what … Continue reading →

Fedora Core 5, ‘Bourdeaux’, has been released. It’s time to get your BitTorrent on — the trackers are up.

Surely no-one is surprised to hear the Bush administration argue that they have the authority to conduct warrantless searches of homes and businesses of suspected terrorists. It’s not as though there’s a 4th Amendment or anything, eh, Attorney General Gonzales? … Continue reading →

Happy little events crop up at the oddest times. While I was waiting for Misty and Ellery to safely navigate around the brushfires in Southern Marland I decided to iPod-ize “Beef, It’s What’s for Dinner” off of one of my … Continue reading →

More Linux geekery within. Some problems with templates in some C++ I’m trying to compile led me to think that I need a newer version of gcc than 3.4.4. No worries. Until I try and get gfortran to build. I … Continue reading →

My non-Linux-using peeps’ll probably want to skip this bit. It’s a lot of boring computer geekery. If any of you are using Fedora Core 4 and would like to sync your Palm Pilot-type device — in my case a trusty … Continue reading →