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I recently gave a friend a resume to pass along for a linux sys admin position. It was a strange experience, thinking of myself as a systems administrator. But as I went through to tweak my resumee for the position, I realized that I've done quite a bit of it over the years (as any web developer must).

I've added a list of essays I've written on this site on thee right-hand side below the channel list, under "My Writings". Maybe someone will find it interesting.

If you're an OS X developer, go get Hydra NOW.

I think someone was in way too much of a rush to get this story online. The entire text of the story (it's not long) is included twice!

I love looking at this blog, written in right-to-left persian script. I love that OS X renders it perfectly.

Big surprise, I hacked on mygannt.py some more this weekend, and it's now called sgannt.py. Ostensibly for Simple Gannt (though it's not so simple anymore) but more because it sounds cool to pronounce it "scant". -)

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Spec Web Site Design: Design for a local lawn care company. The company has no site currently. In my design I tried to develop a look that was professional yet friendly.

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Finally! It's working, and I get to have a weekend! (I don't know if I could have stopped if I hadn't fixed this thing...) But seriously, I am so glad to have this script working. I really hate that admin-type stuff you have to do to get work - writing proposals, doing project plans, timelines, etc... This is going to save me a not-insubstantial amount of time, I'm hoping.

Jodi has been posting more and more lately to her site. She's becoming quite the blogger. I knew it was inevitable when I heard her say the other day, with 5 minutes before walking out the door to work: "I need to go post to my website..."

Whew. You know how you sit there, looking at your working code, thinking "I'm so glad it works. It works really well! But... it could be better... I wonder if instead of a bitmap I could get *resolution independent* ouput?"

Of course, no journey would be complete without a few choice temptations along the way.

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Well, mygannt is coming along nicely. I'm trying not to obsess about it, but... well, if you're a geek you understand. (Must... add... feature...)

If anyone out there has gotten the 1.1.4 version of the python imaging library working with freetype2 on Mac OS X, I'd really love to know how!! (PIL fonts - bitmaps converted from X Windows BDF descriptions - suck. FreeType2 allows use of anti-aliased TrueType fonts.)

Being a freelance web designer and developer, I need to be able to show clients, in a simple yet informative fashion, how their project is going to play out, and what is going to be happening during any phase of the project.

Tomorrow I'll explain why this is so cool:

My nephew, Andrew Scott Ivy (good scottish name!), was born last night , 3 hours after Sean and Amy went to the hostpital. 7 lbs, 8.9 oz, 20".

Clever, and interesting. Mike Sanders has posted a webloggers' version of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It's split into several different posts, so start from the list on Ton's Interdependent Thoughts.

I've been following my web server logs more closely lately, and NetNewsWire now has 4 of the 5 top spots in my Browser report, losing out only to Google. My top five user agents in descending order:

1. Googlebot/2.1
2. NetNewsWire/1.0.1fc1
3. NetNewsWire/1.0.3b1
4. NetNewsWire/1.0fc1
5. NetNewsWire Lite/1.0.2

Snatch.

Tim Bray on the beauties of binary search. Having never taken any CS courses, this was fascinating new information for me. Includes sample code. Niiiiice!