Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
Today I figured out how to get LaTeX to generate PDFs that work for full screen display with nice big letters so I can easily make presentation slides. That first part took the use of FoilTeX which is a not-so-free package of LaTeX macros from…
Today I arose at 6:20am to take the GRE, for the second time. I think I could write pages and pages about the people who were in the waiting room in Prometric at 20 N Clark, but I don’t have the time. Needless to say…
Wired has a nice article up about Lawrence Lessig and how he will soon be arguing Eldred vs Ashcroft in the Supreme Court. It’s a good read first to get an idea about who he is, but it also provides some interesting backdrops to the…
Dictionaraoke.org is one of the funniest sites I’ve in a long time. It provides a little bit of amusement while I’m stuck scanning in 80+ pages for CS450 because the book is out of print. Check it out.
Instead of doing homework I decided that I would rather finally add the feature to my web pages where it shows my recent weblogs. You should be able to see it on the side of some of the pages. This was accomplished using a modified…
I’m really sad, I came into work today just to synchronize the CVS repository. I still feel like I’m having revenge of El Burrito Loco. I slept quite a bit after I got back yesterday, but it still wasn’t enough. I think that I’ve got…
I got another hedgehog today, his name is Simba and he is an absolutely enomrous albino. He really needs to loose some weight. Introduction to Brutus went about as well as could be expected. Brutus really seems indifferent to Simba’s existence. I’m not sure if…
I’ve been mucking with writing my own blogging software for the better part of the last few years, I’m realizing now that although there will never be a solution that I’m completely happy with, it’s less effort for me to find a tool and use…