http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog After all, it could only cost you your life, and you got that for free. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:19:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My nefarious ploy of publishing the status of my code repositories has succeeded, as I've forced myself to finally sink some time into Old Lady lest anyone see how dusty the code base had gotten. (Playing video games for several hours is only part of the excuse for that.) I've ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/07/03/sans-donald/ First: did you know that Joss Whedon, of Firefly fame, is working on a musical, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, to be released on the Internet mid-July, for free (initially)? Here is the trailer: Yes, it's starring Doogie Howser Neil Patrick Harris. As a pathetic villain. If he's only ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/07/01/a-tale-of-two-doctors/ I've finally set up a browsable web interface to my bzr repositories. Now you can more easily track what's going on in my various software projects without having to actually check out a copy of the repository. In particular, there's also feeds that track the latest updates. ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/06/26/browsable-bzr-repository/ Source: Study by the Pew Foundation on Religion and Public Life, as pointed out by Improbable Research http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/06/23/ur-doin-it-wrong/ Last weekend I bought Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1, and spent entirely too much time this past week playing through it. I was curious about the game for two reasons. First, I like Penny Arcade, which happens to be the very first webcomic I ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/06/21/on-on-the-rain-slick-precipice-of-darkness/ Music Applet 2.4.0 has just been released. The main change is that it now supports the recently-released Banshee 1.0, in addition to older versions of Banshee. There's also improved support for debugging crashes, as well as an updated Czech (cs) translation. Unfortunately, the new version of Banshee doesn't provide ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/06/10/music-applet-240-released/ Somehow, I think some of you might be interested to know that today, June 5, is Dead Duck Day. No, not to worry, the little guy is fine, perched on my printer with that stupid little grin of his and constant shilling of insurance. In case you aren't familiar with ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/06/05/dead-duck-day/ Wow, it's been far too long since I've posted something here. Old Lady, my fledgling open-source bridge game, has finally been seeing some updates lately. The main blocker had been me hitting the limits of my knowledge of bridge strategy augmented with the information readily available on the Internet. ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/06/01/old-but-not-dead/ [Editor's note: You knew this was coming eventually. Deal with it.] Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone, the first movie in a four-part "Rebuild" remake of Neon Genesis Evangelion, was recently released on DVD in Japan. And while no distributors have apparently bought the rights to print money release ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/05/12/you-are-not-george-lucas/ I finally got around to cleaning off all the bird droppings on my deck. I learned a few things in doing so: Over time, the piles of bird droppings form a histogram of where the birds like to perch. Birds prefer hanging out on the rafter above the north end of ... http://www.kuliniewicz.org/blog/archives/2008/05/10/ewwwww/