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This is a story all about how my life didn't get twist-turned upside down. And I'd like to take some minutes to sit right here, tell you how I became the king of this Apple macbook air.
Kidding! I just didn't want to use "here" to rhyme with "here". That's so unoriginal (if technically correct). So what am I ranting about today while eating my Ichiban? Read on.

Because of trash like this on TV ... http://my.barackobama.com/page/speakout/offtheairOH

P.S. I haven't seen or heard the ad. I'm taking the campaign's word on faith about this one. If you feel more comfortable, search the internets for more info before acting, I'm sure it's out there.


Ability Scores:
Strength- 14
Dexterity- 13
Constitution- 12
Intelligence- 14
Wisdom- 12
Charisma- 13

Detailed Results:

Alignment:
Lawful Good ----- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (21)
Neutral Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (23)
Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (17)
Lawful Neutral -- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (22)
True Neutral ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (24)
Chaotic Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (18)
Lawful Evil ----- XXXXXXXX (8)
Neutral Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Chaotic Evil ---- XXXX (4)

Law & Chaos:
Law ----- XXXXXXXX (8)
Neutral - XXXXXXXXXX (10)

NetBible version

1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against the workers of iniquity.

2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and truly you shall be fed.

4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires of your heart.

5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

I've shifted gears from pretending to being a programmer to now pretending to being a packager. Today's adventure is to get macports to build qt4 as a universal app with gcc4.2. To do this I had to manually symlink g++ to g++-4.2 instead of the default g++-4.0.
This error kind of helped me along.

Working. Packages be coming.

I remember when I was in college, around either amaroK 1.2 or 1.3 release time, when I first found out about (and was invited to) the amarok dev channel. I don't remember exactlty why, but muesli let me in on the secret. Maybe it was because I was helping out with the docs, or maybe he just wanted to talk about music without the constant distraction of user questions interrupting us :-) Ah yes, good times back then. He turned me on to the awesomeness of Daft Punk and Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Baby I Got Your Money" if I recall correctly.

So sorry china. Try again spammers.

Can gmail be far behind...

There are two ways to include files in your project that guarantees compilation. Only one of these ways should be used at a time.
The first method is the one I learned many moons ago: manually. This uses an #inlcude directive and the path to the file enclosed in quotation marks, i.e. #include "someplace/somefile". The second, Xcode specific method, is checking the "Target" checkbox. This checkbox is in the "Target" column, identifiable by the tiny "target" icon in the column header.
Just in case I lost you.

I'm back. Have internet in my apartment since yesterday and have been (ab)using it ever since. It was a bit touch and go at first as me and the cable modem were feeling each other out. It eventually stopped dropping the connection when downloading @ > 500 Kb/s though, so we're all sorted now. After that I went out with my new friend to grab dinner, then went to see Hancock, which rocked. All in all a good weekend. Praise be to God.
In totally unrelated news I wonder if there are any good ways to stop downloading the porn. It's, er, for a friend of mine... yeah... a friend.

This post will be made into a lifetime movie someday. I guarantee it.
The title of this post is "How slicker made me a better person." I decided on this as the title instead of the alternative "Slicker: A Plasma Story" because this will largely be a personal post. In the original writing this was suppose to illustrate the journey the SlicKer Project took from being one man's dream of a desktop redefined to the actual birth of a new desktop paradigm; i.e. Plasma.

Introduction - skip at your leisure

I like my fonts antialiased, and one thing that has continually bothered me is Xcode's lack of antialiasing in its code editor. To gain this "feature" I had to go to the Xcode Preferences window, then to the Fonts and Colors section. Click on the font and either change it to another fixed width font, or increase the size of Monaco to be greater than 10. For some reason, even if it's set in System Preferences, Monaco at 10 point or lower is not antialiased (except for in the Terminal, which has its own antialiasing setting).

I aluded to the speed with which my new macbook can compile softwarez. With the old (1st gen) Macbook Pro I have it takes ~3 hours to compile qt-copy. With this one, ~1 hour. Awesomeness. Here're some hard times for kde module build.

Machine: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook

Time taken to compile:
	kdelibs - real    14m28.700s
	kdepimlibs - real  3m
	kdebase - real    9m18.283s

Apple has an interesting little utility which they provide with Xcode called FileMerge. I don't actually know if it merges files as the name implies, but I would assume so. I've been using it to see file diffs here on os x. It seems to be a quick and dirty app, but it's easy to use and works well (albeit without the visual pulchritude of your typical os x programs).

It's Sunday, and I'm all alone... which is quite boring. Didn't go to church today but I managed to do some spiritual and religious soul seeking nonetheless. I had a nice chat with God which ended with me reaffirming my faith in the big guy. I believe the colloquial term for such conversations is "prayer". So yeah, I prayed.