Rice has deleted my undergraduate email account,
diego.ongaro@rice.edu,
since I am no longer a student there. If you tried to send to that address
and received a bounce notification, please resend your email to the same
username at alumni.rice.edu instead.
I went up to Twin Peaks in San Francisco with Jay a few weeks ago. It was a nice view but kind of a worst-case scenario for a photo: my iPhone camera (VGA), poor lighting as the sun was setting, and stong winds.
That day I took a bunch of overlapping shots with my phone. Then I used the GIMP's automatic white balance correction on each of them. Next I stitched them together with Hugin, and finally I edited the stitched image with the GIMP. The following mediocre image is the result (click for the full 1534x652 image):
I needed an excuse to try Mike's Vala bindings for Xfce, so I created a new little plugin for the panel, the xfce4-stopwatch-plugin.
In the original release announcement on July 28th, I wrote:
This is the first release of the stopwatch panel plugin, which you can use to time yourself on different tasks. It's stable and usable, but quite minimal still.
The functionality is best summarized with this image from the web site:
I installed the web server lighttpd
on my laptop to test some configuration settings. As I didn't want to expose
the server on the network, I uncommented
server.bind = "localhost" from
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.
Then, restarting lighttpd failed with the following error:
getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known ' localhost '
Last semester at Rice, I took the class Cooking with Chef Roger. The man is passionate about his knives, and he gave us a list of brands he recommends. From one of the few scraps of notes that survived, here is Chef Roger Elkhouri's list of quality brands for chef's knives (French knives).