2008

May

Maze Day 2008

About once a year, K-12 kids with disabilities from all over North Carolina (and beyond) travel to...
May 1st

Apr

Blog moving

My defense is over (passed), it’s a Friday, and I now have time to do things like, say,...
Apr 25th

Jan

Validate your accessibility

Eitan committed a new plug-in for Accerciser that makes it dirt simple to find basic accessibility...
Jan 16th

Spatial PulseAudio

In his interview about Pulse Audio in Fedora 8, Lennart Pottering mentions support for spatial sound...
Jan 1st

2007

Dec

RTM + Gmail = task management goodness
Dec 20th

Android speech synth (where are you?)

I took a peek at the Google Android class hierarchy today. As far as UI goes, it looks like...
Dec 18th

Nov

MS User Interface Automation coming to Linux
Nov 8th

Aug

Accessible Minesweeper
Aug 10th

Jul

“Mitt Romney — who recently faced questions about his common...”
— Republicans Terrified of...
Jul 30th

FC7 build

Pleasantly surprised to see LSR installed, built as an RPM, and ran without a hitch on FC7. The new...
Jul 11th

Dapper

Problem: I want to track water conservation notices in my county, but ncwater.org does not offer...
Jul 7th

Lazy, hazy days

Three days off ahead. Time to cook some dogs and ‘burgs tomorrow, relax with Jackie and Zora....
Jul 4th

Jun

Google Desktop Download
Jun 28th

2007-06-17

Up early to mow the lawn and paint bookshelves for Jackie. Do shelves that hold bound paper count as...
Jun 17th

Oh! The places you'll go!

For those who read this, I’m not longer working on GNOME accessibility projects for IBM....
Jun 17th
Home page
Jun 12th

Blogopular

gb: cool. Now maybe my rank will go up. It's all about driving traffic to my blog ;-)
me: Yes. I know you're dying to become blogopular. You heard it here first: blogopular, regarded with favor by other blogger geeks.
Jun 8th
Fixing Firefox Flash Foolishness
Jun 8th

Yes, this too shall pass

Yesterday, IBM decided to change strategies with respect to GNOME...
Jun 1st

May

2007-05-30

Some prep work for the Monday release of LSR 0.5.3. Crunched some outstanding bugs with the event...
May 30th

2007-05-23

Performance, performance, performance. Optimizing the event dispatching in LSR today. Lots of room...
May 23rd
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
May 23rd

2007-05-18

Heard from Zack today that he’s porting dogtail to pyatspi. Good news. It means all the known...
May 18th
Active Tactile Control (ATC)
May 16th

2007-05-14

GNOME release day today. Lots of last minute Firefox tweaks in LSR. This snapshot isn’t as...
May 14th
Microsoft takes on the free world
May 14th

2007-05-11

Continued to clean up the draft LSR Web UI spec after receiving quality feedback from mag, Braille,...
May 11th

Netvibes bug tabs

I’ve started using Netvibes to track bugs, commit logs, and bugmail related to the LSR and...
May 10th

Hello World (Planet?)

Greeted with an email from Jeff this morning about being added to Planet GNOME. Feeling the pressure...
May 8th

2007-05-03

Friend visited last night and got in a car wreck after leaving today. Thankfully he’s alright,...
May 3rd
Power station harnesses Sun's rays
May 3rd
33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity
May 2nd
“Digg banned me for typing a number!”
— May 1, 2007 Digg HD-DVD...
May 1st
May 1st

Apr

2007-04-30

Back to work. Reviewed a bunch of outstanding LSR patches in the morning. Nice to see some long...
Apr 30th

2007-04-27

Up and to work early. Spent all morning fixing LSR gdm login regressions. Used the afternoon to...
Apr 27th

2007-04-26

Woke up thinking it was Friday. Damn. Last day for contractors. Thankfully they’ve found...
Apr 26th
Firefox 3 promo
Apr 26th

2007-04-25

Up early (very early) to a choking dog. Thankfully, no mess. Know it’s going to be a bad...
Apr 25th
Beware the tongue monster!
Apr 25th
“What happened?! Why is there baseball on?”
— Jackie, as she sits on the TV...
Apr 24th

The Beginning

Everyone: Hey. Why don't you have a blog?
Me: I don't have time to blog.
Everyone: You think we're not busy?
Me: I'd like one, but I haven't found a free, reliable, zero-conf, solution that makes it dirt simple to post.
Everyone: Tumblr.
Me: Fine. Done.
Apr 24th