Keith’s Blog

For whatever reason (actually I have a very good idea what the reason is, and it’s that in vim I can easily adapt a regex by watching highlighting), I write regexes in vim much more easily than in Ruby or Perl. vim’s regexes are powerful, but annoying because of how many characters you have to [...]

This is pretty hot: a holiday owl.

Ben said:
I am in colorado and I’m bored [....] please send me lengthy updates on your lives, situations, problems, joys, sorrows, aspirations, favorite kinds of cheese (melted and non-melted), etc.
Then, after I didn’t respond, he said:
btw you’re not off the hook for emailing me a rundown of your life and favorite types of cheese, ESPECIALLY [...]

We moved offices today, away from our two month stint in Inman Square to a place by my office, here. The new place is probably a mixed bag for us… We really liked the location, windows, and size of the old place, but didn’t really enjoy the noise of the traffic. The new place won’t [...]

So, I did finally manage to get FreeBSD installed last weekend. There were a few factors stabbing me in the back (and making me slag FreeBSD more than it deserved). Specifically, I’ve decided, after about 15 tries, that:

I think the machine got thrown out because one or both of the IDE ports got funked up
I [...]

O’Reilly has a book called Building the Perfect PC. I have built many PCs in the last 6 or 7 years, starting with the machine that I built for myself to take to college. Yet, I have never built the perfect PC. In fact, almost every PC I’ve built then has used a significant number [...]

I just started reading Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore and am enjoying it quite a bit. The book was given to me by a colleague who thought it was a must read because of the startup. The basic premise is this: there’s a huge chasm that separates early adopters of technologies, who [...]

Installing Kubuntu on my Apple (Lombard) Powerbook was so easy

A few hours trying to get Google’s SOAP API working in Ruby or Perl.

The weather forecasters around here love to make dire predictions about the winter weather. They may be true for other parts of the state, but they’re almost always laughably wrong for where we live in Somerville.
Yesterday, however, proved them right. The forecast was for 4-7″ of snow during the day, but they reduced that [...]