Weblog Archives for December 2006

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December 22: White Christmas Without the Snow (Seemant); So Aimee and I will be celebrating a white christmas. Beach sand can be white. And we're hoping it is. We're headed off to the tropics: the island of Jamaica. we're going to one of those all-inclusive deals that's like a cruise, except for the bit with the ship. There ...; Read the full post

December 21: I Have Expensive Taste (Social Networking 2.0) (Seemant); So, a few times in my life I've had a conversation where someone will reveal that they "have expensive taste." Now, I try not to be judgmental, but you know it's hard sometimes, when you hear a line that contains utter pretentiousness like that. Now, these conversations have been in ...; Read the full post

December 19: Of Broken Piñatas and Developer Platforms (XMMS vs. Gentoo) (Seemant); Am I harsh? I don't think I am: I am just calling it how I see it. And, I certainly mean no offense by anything I say. I thought initially to just respond to the comments in my last blog, but as you can see, I had a lot more ...; Read the full post

December 18: StreamBase 3.5.4 (Seemant); For those of you keeping track at home, we just released a new minor version of StreamBase (3.5.4). There are a few fixes (as seen in the link above), and the Reuters adapter is now embedded. In prior releases, Reuters feeds were read in via an external adapter ...; Read the full post

December 17: XMMS Autopsy: Spoons vs. Self-Sufficiency (Seemant); Apparently, some people who read my original XMMS post took away from it a conclusion that I had not made. To boot, these people have hung those conclusions around Diego's neck. Even the fact that the forums thread on the subject has gone on for 14 pages ...; Read the full post

December 15: Updates on Django, CMS's and Church websites (Seemant); In still other news, I've been playing with django's newforms module for creating forms on the websites I've got in the pipeline. It looks like the StreamBase website will finally be content-managed, though not by django, but by something else. I'm hard at work on getting the website ...; Read the full post; Nice StreamBase write-up (Seemant); It's always nice to see people say some nice things about the company you work for. Mr. Halyer really wrote up something very nice about StreamBase and its capabilities, etc. Good stuff, indeed. Meanwhile, I'm hard at work on those articles I promised, though it'll likely be post ...; Read the full post

December 14: The Master Cleanse: PostScript (Seemant); Well, I definitely did not do the cleanse for long enough, this much I know. The statement is true for last time as well. The first indication of this: my tongue was still pasty white when I quit on the 11th day. I actually quit halfway through the day, for ...; Read the full post

December 12: StreamBase: Eclipsed (Seemant); Well, as promised, StreamBase is starting to get even more developer-friendly. I'm sure some of you have seen the new and improved DevZone (notice the sane URL :) ). Well, now in the add-ons downloads section, we have put up a Java Toolkit for Eclipse. Now, to ...; Read the full post

December 11: Future Proofing (Seemant); I'd like to talk about future-proofing for a bit. One of the things that's niggled at me for quite a few years has been the suffixes you find in websites. In the beginning you had either ".htm" or ".html", and even that was annoying. It's one thing to have everything ...; Read the full post; The Master Cleanse: Day 10 (Seemant); Well, the last day came and went. My tongue (writing this on the morning of Day 11) remained white throughout Day 10, signalling at least a Day 11 on the fast in my immediate future. I don't really feel hungry any more. I mean some stuff sounds good and I ...; Read the full post

December 10: Long Live the LA Box (Seemant); That's right folks. The box is dead. The motherboard fan won't work, the media disk is clicking (that was 120GB SATA with all my multimedia on it). And it won't boot. Even the livecd hangs when trying to mount the livecd filesystem. So, I guess it's time to try and ...; Read the full post; The Master Cleanse: Day 9 (Seemant); So here's the thing. I'm bothered and puzzled. I'm puzzled by the fact that even though I haven't had anything to eat, and I haven't been flushing consistently (see the two days I missed), I still have to go to the bathroom every morning. I don't what the reason is ...; Read the full post

December 9: LA Boxes Update (Seemant); So, the Genesi PPC box arrived in almost perfect condition. It was sitting packed in a box this whole time, so there was barely even any dirt in it or around it. It booted right up, and I got the data off it. It's a very quiet box. Since it ...; Read the full post; The Master Cleanse: Day 8 (Seemant); Well, I had to flush in the evening on Day 8 again, instead of the morning, because of an early morning appointment. So, something strange. I was going to blog today that my tongue remained pink throughout the fast. Alas, that is not the case. On Day 8, my tongue ...; Read the full post

December 8: The Stealth Website CMS (Seemant); So, I've been writing a CMS thingy to manage the website for my wife. That has taken a bit of a turn on the backburner, but it's returning to the front next week. In the meantime, I wrote up django apps for part of the websites where I work. It ...; Read the full post; The Master Cleanse: Day 7 (Seemant); Day 7 went off fairly well without a hitch. I did the flush thing in the evening, and it worked for the most part. However, I only wound up drinking 5 glasses of lemonade instead of 6. And I've discovered something -- the fast isn't what makes me cold. The ...; Read the full post

December 7: The Master Cleanse: Day 6 (Seemant); These updates keep getting later and later. Here I am on day 7 writing about Day 6. Before I jump into it, I wanna share some absolutely useless and tangential information. I'm driving into work this morning, listening to the local KISS affiliate (I usually listen to NPR, but I ...; Read the full post

December 6: The Master Cleanse: Day 5 (Seemant); Well, day 5 is almost at en end. As you can see, I decided forge ahead. There were a tempting few moments yesterday, filled with thoughts of veggie soup, sushi and chocolate (in that order), when I thought I'd quit. But since Aimee is pretty much on a soup diet ...; Read the full post; The infamous LA box (Seemant); ...is finally here. You heard right, ladies and gentlemen. The computer that's been in LA since I moved to Boston almost two years ago arrived tonight. I haven't switched it on or anything like that. I'll save that part for the weekend. I plan to open the sucker up and ...; Read the full post

December 5: The Master Cleanse: Day 4 (Seemant); So, things did change today. Aimee's cold stepped up in intensity. She's been achy and throat hurty all day. We decided it was best she go off the fast, and onto some soup. She had some veggie soup tonight for dinner (carrots, celery, red potatoes, white potatoes, mushrooms, squash, onions, ...; Read the full post

December 4: New and Improved StreamBase DevZone (Seemant); Pretty much from the second week of my employment, I had made it my mission to make the DevZone area of the website a lot friendlier. For those of you that had checked out that site when I first mentioned it, you would have noticed that the http://dev.streambase.com link ...; Read the full post; The Master Cleanse: Day 3 (Seemant); And then there were three... My sister's fiance backed out of his master cleanse programme. They went to the mall, and he went through the food court, with all its smells of pizza and who knows what else, and that did him in. They got home and he made pasta ...; Read the full post

December 3: The Master Cleanse: Day 2 (Seemant); Today was a pretty good today. I have had no cravings at all. I've been hungry -- or rather, I've had the inclination to eat -- several times today, but nothing overwhelming at all. In fact, I've not even had overwhelming urges to drink the lemonade. Since this is Aimee's ...; Read the full post

December 2: No More Gentoo-flavoured s.herbert (Seemant); A few people have talked about Stuart's departure already. And I didn't read any of the planet yesterday, when I posted. So that means it's been 2 days since his official announcement, and I've been suspiciously quiet about it :( Well, ...; Read the full post; The Master Cleanse: Day 1 (Seemant); Day 1 went off fairly well without a hitch. We started the day bright and early with a yucky salt water flush. I'd forgotten exactly how yucky it really is on the tongue. I remember it being fairly salty last time, but this time it almost felt like salt-poisoning or ...; Read the full post

December 1: The Master Cleanse: Day 0 (Seemant); So the thing about blogging is that when you stop for a bit, you stop for a bit longer. And then a bit longer and on. Well, that's what happens to me anyway. Take Rach, for example. I owed her a letter probably 6 months ago. And then I'm thinking ...; Read the full post

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