honest.knave

East Greenwich, RI at dawn
This is a composite created from three source images: one exposed for the sky, one exposed for detail in the shadows, and one in-between. The composite image retains color information from all areas of the image. Pretty cool, huh?
There is also a ridonkulously big version of the image. [...]

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I figured I’d document for posterity some of the issues I had with my Kubuntu 7.10 → 8.04 update. I approach all major updates with trepidation, and as usual, it was justified.
First of all, the updater application worked well. I had to expand the window to show the terminal when it updated OpenVPN, [...]

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One of my favorite books about software development, The Pragmatic Programmer, is full of down-to-earth advice for developing quality software. The authors describe several principles and tools that can improve your productivity by orders of magnitude. You’ll see me frequently refer to a core concept of the book called the DRY principle: don’t [...]

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In the spirit of this LifeHacker entry (and this follow-up), I present my cordless desktop (sort of):

As you can probably tell, I have too much hardware in my workspace (but, but I need it!). For some time, I’ve wanted to do a better job organizing it. I’m not a fan of seeing wires everywhere, [...]

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