I went to visit my family 20 years from now, apparently after not having seen them in a long time. Everyone seemed to be the same age they are now, but a lot of other things were different.
The furnace in my mother’s house had just been repaired; there had been something wrong with it [...]

I was working on some electronic project on my grandfather’s workbench, and using his HP 63xx DC power supply to power it. The top had been removed from the power supply, but I don’t know why.
Only after I was done using the power supply did I notice that the top had actually fallen inside [...]

I dreamt that I awakened from a dream, and wanted to hurry to write a blog entry about it before I forgot the dream.  I was staying with a friend of a friend, whose house was very large and opulent, and I had a hard time finding my way to the room where the computer [...]

My simple analog clock program glock will now use the Cairo graphics library, if available at compile time, to render a slightly nicer looking clock. Cairo is generally available on systems with GTK+ 2.8 or later, such as Fedora Core 5.

Three wild birds flew into my apartment.  Two were fairly nondescript, but one was about six inches tall, and looked like a cross between a parrot and a penguin.  I was able to get the smaller ones to leave, but the the parguin (pengot?) apparently wanted to stay.  At first I couldn’t catch it, so [...]

For quite some time now I’ve wanted a color printer, especially one that can handle B-size paper (11 x 17 inches), and one that can print onto printable CD-R and DVD-R media. Traditionally CD-R printers have been very expensive, even though most of them are just modified consumer inkjet printers. I haven’t found [...]

S3 has just released their Chrome S27 graphics chip, and cards are starting to become available. This brings them back into a competitive position with ATI and NVidia.
ATI and NVidia will not open-source their drivers for X.org, the open-source X server used on most Linux systems, nor will they publish documentation allowing third-party drivers to [...]

I’ve been using Skype for a while, and it mostly works OK, though I wish they’d hurry up and release a Linux client that uses ALSA for sound directly, instead of requiring OSS emulation.
The Skype conferencing feature works well as long as everyone has a reliable connection. But it’s irritating that if someone drops [...]

I stopped by a friends house.  We were going to go out to a movie.  He told me about the latest video game that he had written; it was becoming quite popular and making him a fair bit of money.  He went out on an errand and left me at his house.
One of his competitors [...]

I was visiting Richard, a friend who lives in another city.  His refrigerator was full, so there was no where to put my perishable items.  Richard suggested that I go buy a refrigerator.  I pointed out that I didn’t have a way to transport a refrigerator from the store to his house.  He said not [...]