A tale of two Maverick wallpapers

October 9th 2010

After seeing a call for artwork for Ubuntu 10.10 wallpapers on OMG! Ubuntu, I submitted a handful of photos to the Ubuntu Artwork pool on Flickr, just for kicks. Not long after, I discovered that two of my photos-- the feather and the happy cinnamon-- made the final 17 chosen for inclusion in the Maverick release... read more

Chrono Trigger on SNesoid: the Arris Dome password trick

September 22nd 2010

I was delighted to discover SNesoid for Android, which has let me relive my favorite childhood games, particularly Chrono Trigger. But in 2300 AD, after spending a half-hour chasing a rat across the screen to extract the password from it... read more

Uploading to Flickr on Ubuntu: the options aren’t amazing

September 1st 2010

2/24/11 UPDATE: The recent release of Frogr 0.4 makes this post obsolete. It's the Flickr uploader for Ubuntu I've been waiting for. It does everything I was looking for, and more-- I highly encourage anyone looking for a Flickr solution on Ubuntu to go download it... read more

From rooted Evo 4G to Unrevoked Forever + Froyo

August 16th 2010

Thanks to a clever Sprint employee who secretly stockpiled the coveted phone for new customers, I've had an Evo 4G since the day after it was released. Despite foolishly accepting the first OTA upgrade... read more

State of the projects (early July 2010)

July 10th 2010

Birchbark letter XML I have at least a first pass at the names-in-context data for documents 1-23, to supplement the proof-of-concept data I put together previously. Medieval Slavic wiki I've put together a work plan (subject to change) with the articles I'd like to try to incorporate into the wiki by October... read more

Why I've walked away from Apple

July 1st 2010

Yesterday, a friend made the mistake of asking me why I switched from iPhone to Android, on an afternoon when I had some time to kill at the airport. His response to my long e-mail was that I should publish it on a blog somewhere... read more

New birchbark XML: names in context (NIC)

June 27th 2010

To enable a more interesting proof-of-concept for the birchbark letter XML project, I've spent the last week making a new, limited data set (all documents from 1100-1120, plus some documents with the same names from the 12th century... read more

Early results from a birchbark letter proof-of-concept

June 27th 2010

The frustrating thing about attempting a proof-of-concept for the birchbark letters is that many of the calculations I find most interesting need to be run over the entire corpus-- which means a lot more data preparation than I currently have finished... read more

The state of the birchbark letters XML project

June 19th 2010

I was hoping to delay this until I had the Subversion repository ready to distribute the first versions of the XML, but setting it up is taking a bit longer than I anticipated. I'm working on a proof-of-concept for the kinds of analysis that can be done using the name and date indices together... read more

Modernizing Research through Collaborative Reference Tools: The Medieval Slavic Linguistics Wiki

June 18th 2010

As a way of setting an actual deadline for myself to make some progress on the Medieval Slavic wiki, I submitted an abstract to the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, which follows... read more