Monthly Archives April 2004

Mmm, full. Candice and I made shrimp and mushroom okonomiyaki for
dinner tonight. It’s the first time I’ve tried it and I think I’m
hooked. I had no idea it was so filling though.

I couldn’t find okonomiyaki sauce anywhere here (and the staff at
both of the large Asian markets here couldn’t help) so I used
tonkatsu sauce [...]

mysql replication

Brad’s mysqlcon presentation has me thinking out some of the ways we (mis)use MySQL
replication at Mitel. Most of it comes down to working on elegance — in a lot of places I think I’m doing things that work as intended, but are pretty far away from the Right Way. So now I’m trying a whole [...]

Ok then!

Fine! Desktop meme!
Why that background? It’s easy on the eyes. Occasionally I’ll
use a background generated by

perl -e ‘$x=int(rand(5))+2;$y=int(rand(5))+2;print “P3\n$x $y\n255\n”;
print int(rand(128)),” ” for(1..$x*$y*3);print “\n”;’|
pnmrotate $[RANDOM] |xv -root -max -quit +noresetroot -smooth -

instead, which I got from Dagbrown.
Why is your toolbar where it is? Well, erm, it’s not one,
really. Menus appear when I click on [...]

LiveJournal image feed

For those that don’t follow Lj_dev:

Brad has implemented an XML feed which lists the latest
images linked to from LiveJournal posts, onsite or off:
http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest-img.bml
When I saw that, I thought, “Hrm, I should make Jwz’s
webcollage xscreensaver module load those images.”

True to form, five comments into the discussion on the post,
Jwz announces that he has made his online [...]

Yay presents!

I got a package in the mail from Stimps today with toys
for kitties and me!

Both Mouse and Rasha are crazy about their knitted catnip mouse. Rasha
was never a big catnip cat, but he was bouncing around on all four
feet together attacking it earlier. Mouse on the other hand is
definitely a catnip cat:

She was walking around [...]