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Ettore's Self-Centered Web Page Boston, Monday, April 14, 2003 Another stressful day at work. I so want this release cycle to be over. Evolution is speeding toward release In the meantime, it looks like the US government is already making up excuses to start another war. Things are getting rather tragicomic. Chomsky tells it how it is here . Boston, Saturday, April 12, 2003 Today we woke up really late, did our laundry, and then went for a nice seafood dinner with Anna's friend Cyrus at East Ocean City in Chinatown. They serve you these nice full fish cooked straight out of the tank, really tasty. Then we went to see the Dark Side of the Moon laser show at the Museum of Science , which was amazing; I really liked how the laserist interpreted the songs with the light. Totally trippy. Boston, Friday, April 11, 2003 I think I cursed us on Monday when I wrote here that a new release was close. :-) We had a lot of trouble with last minute buglets, but things finally look like they are under control. (Yeah, hopefully I am not cursing us again.) It's amazing how many mistakes one makes when writing in C, and especially how many mistakes are related to memory management. We had to kill at least two memory corrupting problems this week, and when you have a large code base like ours it really sucks when those bugs happen because all you get is garbled or impossible stack traces, and all you can do is use a tool like valgrind (which is totally awesome, but very slow on something like Evolution) hoping to find the usage pattern that triggers it, with no clue whatsoever about which part of the code is to blame. Very frustrating. I'm so looking forward to the day when Mono will actually be finished and we'll be able to spend our time implementing cool features instead of debugging memory management issues... * * * Anna and I have been experimenting with mixing Italian cooking with Spanish ingredients, with interesting results. Yesterday we cooked spaghetti with a chorizo and chipotle sauce, which tasted like some kind of angry version of amatriciana , really good. Today we dared even more and made a risotto with chorizo, which was amazing, better than I could have ever imagined it being. At some point hopefully I'll move my ass and write these down. Boston, Monday, April 7, 2003 Getting closer to a new Evolution release for GNOME 2; we were very close to making it today but there are still a few bugs left to be fixed. Hopefully tomorrow. Boston, Sunday, April 6, 2003 There have been at least two industry-related stories that disturbed me quite a bit lately. The first one is the one about the Intel programmer who was jailed without any charges or evidence at all, apparently because of suspected terrorism ties (although no-one really knows for sure, and his friends set up a web site to set him free). The other one is Al Jazeera 's continuous troubles with their web site, first with the various attacks and then with Akamai 's seemingly gratuitious boycott . (Also see here , which also mentions all the troubles they had to go through to even get people to advertise on their site, and the fact that their journalists were kicked out of the NYSE for no reason.) What is this country coming to? It's quite outrageous that this programmer's civil rights are being unabashedly trashed, and that Al Jazeera (the only Middle Eastern news source that people here can easily have access to) is having so much trouble trying to do its job of delivering information. It sickens me. Last night we were at a TEP, where not much was going on at all, except that some guy was apparently trying to kill some mammoth-sized rat in the bathroom with a rifle . Ouch. Also, we seem to have totally missed Spider playing here in Boston, grrr. Boston, Friday, April 4, 2003 Sign the statement, We Stand for Peace and Justice . In more personal news, we got to babysit Veanne 's little monkey ninja cat Zoe again, which brings more amusement in the household, and we learned how to make a delicious fondue that we ate very merrily. Also, I somewhat can't get over the fact that it's $^%#%& snowing in April. Grmpf. Boston, Thursday, April 3, 2003 System of a Down rocks my world. And their Boom! video (directed by Michael Moore , none the less) is awesome. (Unfortunately, you need the free-as-in-beer Real Player to see it.) Boston, Wednesday, April 2, 2003 Yesterday we watched Born the 4th of July which I had already seen a long time ago, but was nice to see again. I thought it was kind of ironic (and sad, at the same time) to hear people in the movie enthusiastically singing "The Times They Are A-Changin'" , since the America portrayed there (the period of the Vietnam war, under Nixon) was so disturbingly similar to that of today; the thousands of Americans sent to the slaughter with the excuse of freedom , the sleazy Republican president, the media singing along with the military, the popular outrage , the arrests of the protestors... Maybe the times didn't change after all. Boston, Tuesday, April 1, 2003 On Saturday, we joined another protest against the war on Iraq. I see the polls saying that support for the war is supposedly increasing , but that's not really what it looked like to me. This protest was pretty large and loud (actually, probably the largest and loudest I have been to in Boston). We marched along Boylston Street to the Commons, and there were a lot of people all over the place. Of course, as CNN points out, there were people for the war too. Back...
Another stressful day at work. I so want this release cycle to be over. Evolution is speeding toward release In the meantime, it looks like the US government is already making up excuses to start another war. Things are getting rather tragicomic. Chomsky tells it how it is here .
Evolution is speeding toward release
In the meantime, it looks like the US government is already making up excuses to start another war.
Things are getting rather tragicomic. Chomsky tells it how it is here .
Today we woke up really late, did our laundry, and then went for a nice seafood dinner with Anna's friend Cyrus at East Ocean City in Chinatown. They serve you these nice full fish cooked straight out of the tank, really tasty. Then we went to see the Dark Side of the Moon laser show at the Museum of Science , which was amazing; I really liked how the laserist interpreted the songs with the light. Totally trippy.
Then we went to see the Dark Side of the Moon laser show at the Museum of Science , which was amazing; I really liked how the laserist interpreted the songs with the light. Totally trippy.
I think I cursed us on Monday when I wrote here that a new release was close. :-) We had a lot of trouble with last minute buglets, but things finally look like they are under control. (Yeah, hopefully I am not cursing us again.) It's amazing how many mistakes one makes when writing in C, and especially how many mistakes are related to memory management. We had to kill at least two memory corrupting problems this week, and when you have a large code base like ours it really sucks when those bugs happen because all you get is garbled or impossible stack traces, and all you can do is use a tool like valgrind (which is totally awesome, but very slow on something like Evolution) hoping to find the usage pattern that triggers it, with no clue whatsoever about which part of the code is to blame. Very frustrating. I'm so looking forward to the day when Mono will actually be finished and we'll be able to spend our time implementing cool features instead of debugging memory management issues... * * * Anna and I have been experimenting with mixing Italian cooking with Spanish ingredients, with interesting results. Yesterday we cooked spaghetti with a chorizo and chipotle sauce, which tasted like some kind of angry version of amatriciana , really good. Today we dared even more and made a risotto with chorizo, which was amazing, better than I could have ever imagined it being. At some point hopefully I'll move my ass and write these down.
It's amazing how many mistakes one makes when writing in C, and especially how many mistakes are related to memory management. We had to kill at least two memory corrupting problems this week, and when you have a large code base like ours it really sucks when those bugs happen because all you get is garbled or impossible stack traces, and all you can do is use a tool like valgrind (which is totally awesome, but very slow on something like Evolution) hoping to find the usage pattern that triggers it, with no clue whatsoever about which part of the code is to blame. Very frustrating.
I'm so looking forward to the day when Mono will actually be finished and we'll be able to spend our time implementing cool features instead of debugging memory management issues...
Anna and I have been experimenting with mixing Italian cooking with Spanish ingredients, with interesting results. Yesterday we cooked spaghetti with a chorizo and chipotle sauce, which tasted like some kind of angry version of amatriciana , really good. Today we dared even more and made a risotto with chorizo, which was amazing, better than I could have ever imagined it being.
At some point hopefully I'll move my ass and write these down.
Getting closer to a new Evolution release for GNOME 2; we were very close to making it today but there are still a few bugs left to be fixed. Hopefully tomorrow.
There have been at least two industry-related stories that disturbed me quite a bit lately. The first one is the one about the Intel programmer who was jailed without any charges or evidence at all, apparently because of suspected terrorism ties (although no-one really knows for sure, and his friends set up a web site to set him free). The other one is Al Jazeera 's continuous troubles with their web site, first with the various attacks and then with Akamai 's seemingly gratuitious boycott . (Also see here , which also mentions all the troubles they had to go through to even get people to advertise on their site, and the fact that their journalists were kicked out of the NYSE for no reason.) What is this country coming to? It's quite outrageous that this programmer's civil rights are being unabashedly trashed, and that Al Jazeera (the only Middle Eastern news source that people here can easily have access to) is having so much trouble trying to do its job of delivering information. It sickens me. Last night we were at a TEP, where not much was going on at all, except that some guy was apparently trying to kill some mammoth-sized rat in the bathroom with a rifle . Ouch. Also, we seem to have totally missed Spider playing here in Boston, grrr.
The other one is Al Jazeera 's continuous troubles with their web site, first with the various attacks and then with Akamai 's seemingly gratuitious boycott . (Also see here , which also mentions all the troubles they had to go through to even get people to advertise on their site, and the fact that their journalists were kicked out of the NYSE for no reason.)
What is this country coming to? It's quite outrageous that this programmer's civil rights are being unabashedly trashed, and that Al Jazeera (the only Middle Eastern news source that people here can easily have access to) is having so much trouble trying to do its job of delivering information. It sickens me.
Last night we were at a TEP, where not much was going on at all, except that some guy was apparently trying to kill some mammoth-sized rat in the bathroom with a rifle . Ouch.
Also, we seem to have totally missed Spider playing here in Boston, grrr.
Sign the statement, We Stand for Peace and Justice . In more personal news, we got to babysit Veanne 's little monkey ninja cat Zoe again, which brings more amusement in the household, and we learned how to make a delicious fondue that we ate very merrily. Also, I somewhat can't get over the fact that it's $^%#%& snowing in April. Grmpf.
In more personal news, we got to babysit Veanne 's little monkey ninja cat Zoe again, which brings more amusement in the household, and we learned how to make a delicious fondue that we ate very merrily.
Also, I somewhat can't get over the fact that it's $^%#%& snowing in April. Grmpf.
System of a Down rocks my world. And their Boom! video (directed by Michael Moore , none the less) is awesome. (Unfortunately, you need the free-as-in-beer Real Player to see it.)
Yesterday we watched Born the 4th of July which I had already seen a long time ago, but was nice to see again. I thought it was kind of ironic (and sad, at the same time) to hear people in the movie enthusiastically singing "The Times They Are A-Changin'" , since the America portrayed there (the period of the Vietnam war, under Nixon) was so disturbingly similar to that of today; the thousands of Americans sent to the slaughter with the excuse of freedom , the sleazy Republican president, the media singing along with the military, the popular outrage , the arrests of the protestors... Maybe the times didn't change after all.
I thought it was kind of ironic (and sad, at the same time) to hear people in the movie enthusiastically singing "The Times They Are A-Changin'" , since the America portrayed there (the period of the Vietnam war, under Nixon) was so disturbingly similar to that of today; the thousands of Americans sent to the slaughter with the excuse of freedom , the sleazy Republican president, the media singing along with the military, the popular outrage , the arrests of the protestors...
Maybe the times didn't change after all.
On Saturday, we joined another protest against the war on Iraq. I see the polls saying that support for the war is supposedly increasing , but that's not really what it looked like to me. This protest was pretty large and loud (actually, probably the largest and loudest I have been to in Boston). We marched along Boylston Street to the Commons, and there were a lot of people all over the place. Of course, as CNN points out, there were people for the war too.
On Saturday, we joined another protest against the war on Iraq. I see the polls saying that support for the war is supposedly increasing , but that's not really what it looked like to me.
This protest was pretty large and loud (actually, probably the largest and loudest I have been to in Boston). We marched along Boylston Street to the Commons, and there were a lot of people all over the place.
Of course, as CNN points out, there were people for the war too.