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iris, and darwin tweaks
i think iris might be starting to talk. the words are few, and the pronunciation odd enough that i'm never really sure, but i think i've been hearing "fish", "kitty", "guido" (one of the cats), and "no" used in more-or-less appropriate situations. rebbyribs is a bit more skeptical, but i'm sure iris will talk clearly and distinctly soon enough.
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best typo i've seen recently
this is the best typo i've seen recently: "platronic ideal", in "Don't Proliferate; Transliterate!", on digital encoding of greek for scholarly purposes -
firefox extensions i'm using
i often feel chained to the firefox web browser due to reliance on some of the great add-on software available for it. this falls into three broad categories: ( enhanced browsing add-ons, development tools and security- and privacy-related add-ons. ) -
myman 0.6
there's a new version of myman. it can now store html "screenshots" when you press the t key:
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γ and ν
thanks to fontforge and potrace, two fonts i drew many years ago are now available in vector form. the fonts are licensed under the gpl and i retain the copyright. Update: They are now dual-licensed under ofl and gpl (with an embedding exclusion: embedding these fonts in a document does not force that document to be gpl'ed)
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potrace and snowflakes
potrace is a neat program that converts bitmap images to vector images. recently i used it to convert pictures of some paper snowflakes i made:
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Iris
Iris was born yesterday around 7:30pm. She's a healthy baby girl - a medium sized (8lb7oz and 21in or so at birth) brunette - and loves to eat and sleep. rebbyribs and Iris are both doing well, and resting a lot. We hope to go home in a day or so! rebbyribs went into labor yesterday morning on her own and labored all the way to delivery (about 17 hours) without ( Read more... ) -
fun with python's ctypes and unicodedata
ucnhash is a python wrapper i wrote for the unicode names database in the python distribution. why write such a thing? well, unicodedata.name(x) only works for x <= u'\uffff' on narrow python builds (mac os x and win32 are built this way by default.) ucnhash.getname(x) works for all named characters in the database, and the corresponding ucnhash. ( Read more... )