Paralipsis

This just in, Fisting considered affectionate.

P.S. Wikipedia has become the de-facto source of information for the 21st century.

Wow, I didn’t know that you could enable multi-touch support using the synaptics driver in linux. I really need to try this out on my laptop. Out of the box running ubuntu 8.04 it does the edge scrolling but sometimes that kicks in when I don’t want it to, so being able to [...]

Found on the internet as a Best of Craigslist post.
A couple of weeks ago we decided to cruise out to Ryan’s Steakhouse for dinner. It was a Wednesday night which means that macaroni and beef was on the hot bar, indeed the only night of the week that it is served. Wednesday night is [...]

Whether you are in product development or customer service, more or less every single measure of success comes down to how well you have managed expectations. After all, what is a failure other than a customer or consumer considering you to have missed their expectations?
This can cut both ways, however. I recently ordered [...]

I was thrilled to see that in the 200 best/worst jobs list, I have BOTH the 5th best and 5th worst jobs. I am both a software engineer (rank 5) and an EMT (rank 196).

After searching the forums and the Internet I’ve ascertained that there is no current support for vpnc on the G1. I don’t know if the ARM processor will have trouble keeping up with IPsec, but now that I’ve done a few test programs my next task will be to investigate building vpnc.

Pro-tip: Always have a terminal running and showing the output of adb logcat. That’s where all your System.out.println()s will show up as well as stack dumps of your fatal exceptions.
Not that I ever get fatal exceptions, that is.
Second protip: The ID being assigned in the layout MUST be the android namespace id [...]

I may be really dumb, but it took me forever to figure out how to simply get an app installed on a physical phone. When I finally found out the tools to use, I was getting errors like the one below when I tried to actually copy the app over.

$ adb install ~/sandbox/HelloAndroid/bin/HelloAndroid-debug.apk
123 KB/s [...]

Turns out, it takes some getting used to.

Well, I wonder if being able to blog from a mobile device is a good thing or not…