Marshall's Weblog

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A Garden of Celular Automata

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Classes started yesterday. I can already tell that this semester is going to be rough. Power of Words looks like it is going to be a really cool class. I have 2 courses which are using the new Desire 2 Learn web system which, unfortunately for me, uses the panthermail/alpha account which I havn’t used [...]

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A conversation during tonights Bucks game had me searching the internet for the name of a flop of a draft pick that I couldn’t remember. Shawn Respert! While I was searching this site I was suddenly reminded of the horrible history of Bucks draft picks.
Read about it here

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Gnome 2.4.1 rocks! 4 hours later is is done compiling. I havn’t tested much out but a very good sign is that nautilus opens in less then 5 seconds! I fired up Epiphany just for fun. It is a pretty good Mozilla-based browser written in GTK. The preferences are very lacking (I cannot turn off [...]

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I made some update to the site today. I added the Uber-Blockquotes code from developerkb.com (pretty cool site), modified some css, and re-did the archives section with a ‘hack’ that I found on the wp board. I still have a bunch left to do but I made some good progress today after not touching the [...]

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Just found this off of Planet Gnome.
Muine is a music player writtin in C and C#. It needs Mono, Gtk#, GStreamer 0.6.x, libid3tag and the Ogg Vorbis libraries to build.
I am going to try it out after Gnome 2.4.2 finishes compiling.

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Here is a very funny history of RealNetworks. There is even a great “review” of their RealOne player. Gotta love Something Awful!
Movies
I watched Scarface for the first time tonight. Great flick. This movie is probably the greatest influence that the guys at Rockstar had when designing Vice City.
Books
I finished The Restaurant at the End [...]

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