http://atbash.net/blog/ His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.]]> en-us cbrown@atbash.net Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:24:10 -0800 http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000135.html http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000134.html I decided that before really writing off the fa.haskell post at How would you replace a field in a CSV file? about replacing a field in a CSV file using Haskell, I'd do something roughly equivalent in Common Lisp which... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000133.html Like all good Mac people, I do my diagramming in OmniGraffle. I just upgraded to the most recent Pro version and started creating new diagrams for a project at work. I went to check them into our Subversion repository and....... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000132.html I've been playing with Unicode support in SBCL lately, so I keep an ear out on the mailing lists for gotchas. On comp.lang.lisp, SBCL+UFFI+MYSQL came up and here's the tidbit: Yay! That's it! When I ran this: (stream-external-format *standard-output*) I... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000131.html If you're the guy who says, "I'm the decider," you're not the decider. I appreciate Jon Carroll's take on the Bush administration and I realized yesterday it applies to software project leaders, along with a corollary: If you aren't the... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000130.html Bear with me for a moment, because this won't make much sense at first. This morning I was helping my son put his toy race track away. You know, the kind with the long plastic strips and differently shaped connectors... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000129.html Ok, I figured out what was causing SLIME to "hang" with the recent sbcl patches for non-ASCII filenames. The default coding system was "iso-latin1-unix". Either changing the value of slime-net-coding-system in Emacs at SLIME startup, or changing its initialization in... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000128.html http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000127.html http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000126.html http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000125.html I'm on a quest to get everyone to use encrypted mail. It's still a bit of a hassle, with the reality of key exchange and key management between you and all your friends. Still, most platforms and mail clients are... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000124.html Thanks to Phil I finally have a working installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Bridge! The culprit was a wayward font of some sort that I don't ever remember installing and even the name looked corrupted. I opened Apple' Font... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000123.html I ran across Mark Morford's column linked on reddit.com the other day. Remember I was whining about "progress versus intensity"? This column comes at it from another angle, talking of bucking what the establishment has brainwashed us with from childhood.... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000122.html A number of my friends have asked from time to time that I post my reading list. Sometimes it's all tech, sometimes literature, sometimes a weird mix. The only constant is that it's long. I'm always reading about a dozen... http://atbash.net/blog/archives/000121.html I bet we are all following the adventures of Paul Graham's Y Combinator lately. I found this blog entry on demoing for funding. Having done *tons* of demos during my time at Microsoft, speaking in front of small groups...