Maze Day 2008

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

Blog moving

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

Validate your accessibility

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

Spatial PulseAudio

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

RTM + Gmail = task management goodness

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...

MS User Interface Automation coming to Linux

Accessible Minesweeper

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

FC7 build

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

Dapper

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

Lazy, hazy days

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

Google Desktop Download

2007-06-17

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

Oh! The places you'll go!

For those who read this, I’m not longer working on GNOME accessibility projects for IBM....

Home page

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.

Fixing Firefox Flash Foolishness

Yes, this too shall pass

Yesterday, IBM decided to change strategies with respect to GNOME...

2007-05-30

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

2007-05-23

Performance, performance, performance. Optimizing the event dispatching in LSR today. Lots of room...

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

2007-05-18

Heard from Zack today that he’s porting dogtail to pyatspi. Good news. It means all the known...

Active Tactile Control (ATC)

2007-05-14

GNOME release day today. Lots of last minute Firefox tweaks in LSR. This snapshot isn’t as...

Microsoft takes on the free world

2007-05-11

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

Netvibes bug tabs

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

Hello World (Planet?)

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

2007-05-03

Friend visited last night and got in a car wreck after leaving today. Thankfully he’s alright,...

Power station harnesses Sun's rays

33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity

“Digg banned me for typing a number!”
— May 1, 2007 Digg HD-DVD...

2007-04-30

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

2007-04-27

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

2007-04-26

Woke up thinking it was Friday. Damn. Last day for contractors. Thankfully they’ve found...

Firefox 3 promo

2007-04-25

Up early (very early) to a choking dog. Thankfully, no mess. Know it’s going to be a bad...

Beware the tongue monster!

“What happened?! Why is there baseball on?”
— Jackie, as she sits on the TV...

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.