dburrows/ blog/ archive

This page lists all the posts in my blog, even the old ones. Note that the RSS and Atom feeds on this page include all the posts on my blog, whereas the feeds on the main page only include posts written prior to the blog moving to ikiwiki. All new posts appear on both the main feed and the archive feed.

Package Management Sudoku 2
Posted Sat 23 Aug 2008 11:15:00 AM PDT

Package Management Sudoku
Posted Tue 19 Aug 2008 10:23:00 PM PDT

No hyphenation joy in GTK+.
Posted Mon 11 Aug 2008 09:16:58 PM PDT

aptitude 0.4.11.9 released
Posted Mon 11 Aug 2008 08:44:19 PM PDT

CWidget tutoral 1: 'Hello, world!'
Posted Fri 04 Jul 2008 01:03:00 PM PDT

Welcome to Obey Arthur Liu, GSOC coder
Posted Thu 19 Jun 2008 07:22:00 AM PDT

aptitude 0.4.11.4 released
Posted Sat 07 Jun 2008 06:38:00 PM PDT

Worst Debian day ever.
Posted Wed 14 May 2008 08:10:00 AM PDT

Breaking radio silence
Posted Fri 09 May 2008 10:30:00 PM PDT

The trifecta of loathing
Posted Mon 21 Apr 2008 08:30:00 PM PDT

aptitude 0.4.11.2 released
Posted Sat 12 Apr 2008 08:07:00 PM PDT

aptitude 0.4.11.1 released
Posted Sat 05 Apr 2008 08:00:00 AM PDT

'Suck less' mugs on Cafepress
Posted Sun 16 Mar 2008 02:39:51 PM PDT

Apologies for spamming the planet...
Posted Sun 16 Mar 2008 12:08:00 PM PDT

aptitude 0.4.11 released
Posted Sun 16 Mar 2008 11:54:00 AM PDT

The power of self-delusion
Posted Fri 07 Mar 2008 09:17:00 PM PST

Lightning-bug journalism
Posted Thu 31 Jan 2008 06:14:00 AM PST

Abusing metaphors is fun
Posted Sat 19 Jan 2008 10:06:00 PM PST

I hate it when I'm right this way
Posted Wed 09 Jan 2008 07:00:00 AM PST

Appropriate Technology
Posted Mon 24 Dec 2007 11:17:00 AM PST

aptitude 0.4.10 released
Posted Sun 16 Dec 2007 01:36:00 PM PST

cwidget 0.5.6.1 released
Posted Sat 15 Dec 2007 11:01:00 PM PST

HOWTO get and compile the apt source repository using bzr
Posted Sat 15 Dec 2007 04:05:00 PM PST

HOWTO convert your Blogger/BlogSpot blog to ikiwiki
Posted Fri 14 Dec 2007 11:00:00 PM PST

Why should Europeans get all the cool words?
Posted Wed 12 Dec 2007 08:56:00 PM PST

Abstracting over record fields in Haskell
Posted Fri 07 Dec 2007 07:00:00 PM PST

Why so few X maintainers?
Posted Mon 03 Dec 2007 07:34:00 AM PST

Suck less T-shirts on Cafepress
Posted Sun 02 Dec 2007 12:06:00 AM PST

Installing packages in safe-upgrade
Posted Sat 01 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PM PST

Full upgrade and conflicts
Posted Sat 01 Dec 2007 12:08:00 PM PST

The Dreaded I-Word
Posted Fri 30 Nov 2007 08:15:00 AM PST

Ikiwiki and git
Posted Wed 28 Nov 2007 08:22:00 PM PST

Moved to ikiwiki
Posted Wed 28 Nov 2007 08:52:14 AM PST

Facebook comments
Posted Wed 21 Nov 2007 06:31:00 PM PST

Good ideas in customer service: kill the hold period
Posted Wed 21 Nov 2007 06:09:00 PM PST

cwidget gets a Web page
Posted Tue 20 Nov 2007 09:28:00 PM PST

ANNOUNCE: cwidget
Posted Sun 11 Nov 2007 06:41:00 PM PST

Building rails
Posted Mon 05 Nov 2007 07:20:00 PM PST

Lessig at the University of Washington
Posted Sun 04 Nov 2007 11:58:00 AM PST

Mail
Posted Wed 31 Oct 2007 05:57:00 AM PDT

Here we go again...
Posted Tue 30 Oct 2007 09:02:00 PM PDT

Just rub it in, why don't you!
Posted Tue 30 Oct 2007 08:35:00 PM PDT

Mercurial repositories for the aptitude Debian tree now publically accessible
Posted Sat 13 Oct 2007 07:50:00 PM PDT

Monad.Reader
Posted Sat 13 Oct 2007 02:16:00 PM PDT

Science: who does it, why?
Posted Wed 10 Oct 2007 06:37:00 PM PDT

Feline Love
Posted Wed 03 Oct 2007 08:40:00 PM PDT

What were they thinking?
Posted Tue 04 Sep 2007 07:46:00 AM PDT

Seattle LUG meeting
Posted Thu 30 Aug 2007 08:31:00 PM PDT

Do not install aptitude 0.4.4-4b+1!
Posted Sun 01 Jul 2007 06:12:00 PM PDT

Jealousy
Posted Thu 21 Jun 2007 10:30:00 PM PDT

Fun with Functions
Posted Tue 19 Jun 2007 08:31:00 PM PDT

Freudian slips in commit messages
Posted Sun 17 Jun 2007 09:53:00 PM PDT

aptitude development moves to Mercurial, back to Alioth
Posted Sat 16 Jun 2007 09:51:00 PM PDT

Dear Lazyweb: Mercurial Python API
Posted Sun 10 Jun 2007 09:33:00 PM PDT

Closing bugs just because they're old is not cool
Posted Sun 10 Jun 2007 11:11:00 AM PDT

Blogger annoyingness
Posted Fri 08 Jun 2007 09:01:00 PM PDT

The virtues of limited terminal width
Posted Wed 23 May 2007 08:41:00 PM PDT

System 76
Posted Tue 15 May 2007 09:49:00 PM PDT

Wikified aptitude TODO list.
Posted Sat 21 Apr 2007 11:59:00 AM PDT

How *not* to impress your customers.
Posted Sun 15 Apr 2007 08:28:00 AM PDT

coq's -ness-nesses
Posted Thu 12 Apr 2007 08:33:00 PM PDT

Wikipedia is case-sensitive, who'da thunk?
Posted Wed 11 Apr 2007 09:28:00 PM PDT

Latest Shiny Geek Toy: coq
Posted Mon 09 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PM PDT

On emailing me.
Posted Wed 28 Mar 2007 08:27:00 PM PDT

Where have all the bytes gone?
Posted Mon 12 Mar 2007 08:50:00 PM PDT

Project get-in-shape
Posted Sun 04 Feb 2007 08:07:00 PM PST

I Sansa no more
Posted Tue 30 Jan 2007 10:20:00 PM PST

PR techniques
Posted Mon 29 Jan 2007 08:32:00 PM PST

The Internet generation's lament
Posted Mon 29 Jan 2007 08:28:00 PM PST

Sandisk doesn't want your money for a music player unless you run Windows
Posted Sat 27 Jan 2007 08:33:00 AM PST

Package management usability
Posted Tue 23 Jan 2007 09:46:00 PM PST

How to Breathe, Functionally (part 2)
Posted Sun 21 Jan 2007 09:20:00 AM PST

How to Breathe, Functionally (part 1)
Posted Sun 21 Jan 2007 08:44:00 AM PST

Via C7: it goes fast AND slow!
Posted Thu 18 Jan 2007 08:09:00 AM PST

Cuckoo!
Posted Wed 17 Jan 2007 08:35:00 PM PST

Mini-Review: mythtv for non-TV viewers
Posted Wed 17 Jan 2007 08:11:00 PM PST

The US isn't the only country with crazy politicians
Posted Wed 10 Jan 2007 06:07:00 AM PST

Why comments are closed on my blog.
Posted Thu 28 Dec 2006 10:06:00 AM PST

I'm a top contributor too!
Posted Thu 28 Dec 2006 10:01:00 AM PST

Microsoft: Copyright law is for other people?
Posted Thu 28 Dec 2006 08:33:00 AM PST

urlscan 0.5
Posted Sat 16 Dec 2006 11:33:00 AM PST

"DRM:
Posted Sat 09 Dec 2006 02:02:00 PM PST

Apologies to Samsung
Posted Sat 09 Dec 2006 01:50:00 PM PST

Hungarian notation is a human-checked type system, redux
Posted Sat 09 Dec 2006 11:21:00 AM PST

Hardware manufacturers to avoid: Samsung
Posted Fri 08 Dec 2006 08:43:00 PM PST

Things I miss about being an Undergrad.
Posted Tue 05 Dec 2006 08:41:00 PM PST

Digging for Conspiracies?
Posted Tue 28 Nov 2006 06:46:00 AM PST

Close Encounters of the Automotive Kind
Posted Sun 12 Nov 2006 10:21:00 AM PST

Things that Don't Suck and Things that Do
Posted Fri 27 Oct 2006 06:52:00 PM PDT

ACLU & tagged-URL emails
Posted Tue 17 Oct 2006 06:16:00 PM PDT

When good spamfilters go bad.
Posted Sat 30 Sep 2006 09:02:00 PM PDT

Kitties
Posted Sat 02 Sep 2006 11:12:00 AM PDT

Dynamic typing strikes again.
Posted Sat 12 Aug 2006 03:12:00 PM PDT

Giving away secrets
Posted Sat 12 Aug 2006 02:47:00 PM PDT

Explaining Network Neutrality
Posted Sat 12 Aug 2006 11:07:00 AM PDT

We aren't ATI's market.
Posted Sat 12 Aug 2006 09:14:00 AM PDT

Amazing the things you learn when you fiddle
Posted Tue 01 Aug 2006 11:43:00 PM PDT

People suck, news at 11
Posted Sun 30 Jul 2006 01:12:00 PM PDT

Wallet arghness
Posted Wed 26 Jul 2006 08:53:00 PM PDT

Meeting the Wisconsin state bird in Washington
Posted Sun 16 Jul 2006 09:26:00 AM PDT

Paintings make the room pretty.
Posted Tue 04 Jul 2006 04:30:00 PM PDT

Not Bavaria, but still fun.
Posted Tue 04 Jul 2006 03:15:00 PM PDT

Seth Crosson, are you out there? Your mother would like to speak with you.
Posted Sat 24 Jun 2006 04:48:00 PM PDT

Unsubscribing from most Debian lists.
Posted Sun 18 Jun 2006 09:06:00 AM PDT

Still Not Dead Yet
Posted Wed 17 May 2006 08:30:00 PM PDT

No More Retail Electronics Stores
Posted Sat 25 Mar 2006 01:45:00 PM PST

Memcheck good; Fry's not so good
Posted Sat 18 Mar 2006 09:15:00 PM PST

Windows stupidities
Posted Sat 18 Mar 2006 10:05:00 AM PST

So close, yet so far away...
Posted Fri 17 Mar 2006 10:58:00 PM PST

I Hate Hardware Redux
Posted Thu 16 Mar 2006 09:54:00 PM PST

Windows in 1998
Posted Sat 18 Feb 2006 09:08:00 AM PST

Arguments that are difficult to refute.
Posted Sat 18 Feb 2006 09:04:00 AM PST

How much speed are you willing to give up for pretty code?
Posted Sun 29 Jan 2006 12:24:00 PM PST

Gainful employment rules
Posted Thu 05 Jan 2006 08:11:00 PM PST

Legibility, A Brief Thought Regarding
Posted Fri 09 Dec 2005 10:28:00 PM PST

Linguistic Contortions
Posted Thu 01 Dec 2005 12:43:00 PM PST

Music for everyone
Posted Thu 24 Nov 2005 07:21:00 PM PST

Lentil-based protesters
Posted Thu 24 Nov 2005 06:15:00 PM PST

Thread pattern recognition
Posted Wed 23 Nov 2005 11:19:00 PM PST

A type-system hack
Posted Mon 21 Nov 2005 09:15:00 AM PST

On the usefulness of advice.
Posted Thu 13 Oct 2005 12:19:00 PM PDT

Announce: leafsmtp
Posted Tue 11 Oct 2005 10:26:00 PM PDT

More lines-of-code nonsense
Posted Fri 07 Oct 2005 04:18:00 PM PDT

P-E-B-C-A-K
Posted Thu 06 Oct 2005 05:43:00 PM PDT

A cry from the bitbucket
Posted Thu 06 Oct 2005 10:43:00 AM PDT

aptitude goes distributed
Posted Wed 05 Oct 2005 12:17:00 AM PDT

The Operation Was A Success (and the patient lived!)
Posted Wed 05 Oct 2005 12:07:00 AM PDT

Did I just do that?
Posted Tue 04 Oct 2005 04:22:00 PM PDT

Give me a lever of 6
Posted Mon 03 Oct 2005 11:43:00 PM PDT

I Hate Hardware
Posted Sun 02 Oct 2005 09:09:00 PM PDT

aptitude 0.3.4 uploaded to experimental
Posted Sat 01 Oct 2005 05:36:00 PM PDT

Usertags fun
Posted Sun 25 Sep 2005 05:16:00 PM PDT

Desktop? What desktop?
Posted Thu 25 Aug 2005 04:53:00 PM PDT

Too bad I can't put this on my resume...
Posted Thu 25 Aug 2005 04:50:00 PM PDT

Note To Self
Posted Mon 22 Aug 2005 07:42:00 PM PDT

Exponential blowup is annoying
Posted Fri 12 Aug 2005 02:58:00 PM PDT

Unstable dilemma
Posted Sun 10 Jul 2005 07:41:00 AM PDT

Taming the Inner Pack Rat
Posted Thu 07 Jul 2005 03:10:00 PM PDT

UTF-8 success. Sort of.
Posted Sat 02 Jul 2005 12:28:00 PM PDT

I have to get out of this state
Posted Thu 30 Jun 2005 12:49:00 PM PDT

Curses! ... WIDE curses.
Posted Wed 22 Jun 2005 07:47:00 PM PDT

Credit Cards, Security, and Common Wisdom
Posted Mon 20 Jun 2005 04:27:00 PM PDT

New Web Pages
Posted Thu 16 Jun 2005 02:04:00 PM PDT

Job Fairs
Posted Thu 09 Jun 2005 03:28:00 PM PDT

I may be syndicated again (we can only hope)
Posted Wed 08 Jun 2005 10:25:00 AM PDT

Vacations and Camera Frustration
Posted Tue 31 May 2005 05:10:00 PM PDT

Employment Catch-22
Posted Fri 27 May 2005 02:10:00 PM PDT

I did it!
Posted Thu 19 May 2005 03:30:00 PM PDT

License Insanity
Posted Thu 12 May 2005 09:07:00 PM PDT

Eat Cold Logic, Feeble Dependency Problems!
Posted Mon 09 May 2005 09:30:00 PM PDT

All Hail Lentils, That Shall Be Soup Here, After
Posted Sat 07 May 2005 07:07:00 PM PDT

This Dang Blog Thingamajig
Posted Sat 07 May 2005 05:07:00 PM PDT