Archive for February 2010

I got some amusing spam

Posted on February 23, 2010, 4:42 pm, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Philosophy, Politics.

It read: If anyone here truly feels fiat currency is worthless then feel free to give me all your money. I’m fine with that. If anyone here truly feels that fiat currency is worthless, then feel free to give me all your money.

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I want to code, not fiddle with tools

Posted on February 22, 2010, 3:02 pm, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Computing.

I’ve spent a good deal of the morning dealing with issues between Eclipse (my IDE), Subversive (the subversion integration for Eclipse), and M2Eclipse (the Maven integration for Eclipse). (Subversion is a version control system.) Gaah….

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Worst song in the world

Posted on February 22, 2010, 12:37 pm, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Other, Philosophy.

I have a friend who believes that “Crystal Blue Persuasion” is the worst song in the world. I don’t agree. It’s just boring, sort of like anything by Air Supply or Bread. (If I never hear “Diary” again it’ll be too soon.) Denise thinks that maybe “Escape” (the Piña Colada Song) is the worst song [...]

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I made the cauliflower and caramelized onion tart from smitten kitchen

Posted on February 21, 2010, 1:31 pm, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Food.

There was this recipe recently on Smitten Kitchen for a cauliflower and caramelized onion tart, which I made last night. It was wonderful! It’s actually a cross between a tart and a quiche, because it has a custard filling. Very yummy. It made leftovers.

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Multicultural stir-fry

Posted on February 19, 2010, 1:22 pm, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Food.

So I’m at home with some sort of sore throat and runny nose, and I wanted some good food to both fill me up and to ease my sinuses. I made Kathryn’s multicultural stir-fry. This time it was British-American-Asian. I started out British by chopping a turnip into 1cm cubes and sweating them in a [...]

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Okay, who ordered more snow?

Posted on February 19, 2010, 11:54 am, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Other.

The snow from a week ago had just about cleared off. Now we’re getting very large clusters of flakes coming down heavy and falling quickly. The streets and grounds are getting that white sheen again. I thought we were through with this…

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Sea Glass now on Maven Central repository

Posted on February 16, 2010, 10:08 am, by Kathryn Huxtable, under Computing, Sea Glass Look and Feel.

We released version 0.1.6.1 a few days ago. This has very few changes from the 0.1.6 release, the main one being that we are signing the jars and putting them on the Maven Central repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/, in particular: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/seaglasslookandfeel/seaglasslookandfeel/ Future releases will be released to Central, and snapshots will be released to http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/seaglasslookandfeel/ seaglasslookandfeel/ [...]

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