my name is paul

i hike mountains, drown hackysacs, and write code

i'm married to a beautiful canadian girl

we packed up everything and moved to alberta

my new school has squirrels (this is a ubc squirrel though)

download pictures... ocean shores! ... sunshine coast! ... a walk to school

mail... blhue@antiflux.org

aviary!

how not to size your christmas light purchases -- reproduced without permission from EPCOR's newsletter, but I'm making fun so it's fair use ;)

two uninteresting notes:

• I was able to install the Source Navigator IDE on Mac OS X by installing from source and following this hint. The build script didn't set the variable at all, but everything worked when I added "TCL_LIBRARY=$etcdir" and "export TCL_LIBRARY" before the exec line in the startup script.
• This is the coolest thing I saw on the web today. "Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit" :)

From Berkely's Recovery Oriented Computing website: "...results from psychology research point out that human error is intrinsic and can never be completely eliminated."

This week I had a do a big source code merge. So, I looked for good free merge tools that I could get to work on Scientific Linux quickly. This was maddening, and I eventually did it by hand by letting CVS take care of the non-conflicting merges and used two tkdiff windows (ancestor to HEAD and ancestor to my checkpoint), reviewing everything. The biggest reason I didn't just use tkdiff was because when only one side _changed_, tkdiff doesn't tell me what side that was. Today I discovered two things: (a) the raw text output of diff3 is pretty good, and (b) I can add just a few lines in tkdiff to make it do what I want. Horray for next time! ... or maybe next time, I'll be employed and have good tools again. :)

A long time ago (before the first "blogs", in the era of "ezines"), some friends of mine and I created something very cool. It's here but not linked. If you remember the name, just type it at the end of the URL for this page, e.g. http://antiflux.org/~blhue/name_goes_here.