May 2006

May 24, 2006 - Tux Paint is mentioned in a blog for parents, Kiddley.com.

May 23, 2006 - Tux Paint is mentioned in an article on Free Software in education at NewsForge.

May 22, 2006 - LimeLife, the company I work for now, has been mentioned in this week's issue of Newsweek!

May 18, 2006 - <rant> So I'm using Eclipse to do C/C++ at work. Apps. that I create cannot run, because CygWin's DLL cannot be found. Googling the problem, I discovered I should add CygWin's location to my $PATH environment. Suddenly, Gaim doesn't work right. Asking the Gaim folks, they said it's probably because CygWin is in my $PATH. Great! Forunately, a Control Panel for Windows exists that allows $PATHs to be set on a per-app.-basis.

<subrant type="UI"> Programs that show stuff that needs to scroll a lot, but which are in a window that's less than 1/4th the size of my screen should be resizable, damnit! </subrant>

<subrant type="legacy"> How the hell does an average Windows user know what the hell crap that looks like this are: "C:\PROGRA~1\SYMANT~1\VPTray.exe"!? Seriously! </subrant> </rant>

May 16, 2006 - Despite my allergies, I decided to bike to work today. Google Maps says it's about 8.3 miles (though that's by freeway). I go slow, so it took me about 50 minutes, but it was a pleasant ride, and I'm going to try and do it as often as I can, while the weather is good.

May 15, 2006 - Tux Paint got a 4-out-of-5 rating in a review by Connected Photographer this month!

May 15, 2006 - Last Friday during lunch, I went to get a haircut. I asked, I thought, for exactly what would look good, based on Melissa's recommendations. (Trying to recreate the haircut I had for my wedding, which was pretty much perfect — luckily.) Unfortunately, the barber totally misunderstood, and pretty much chopped it all off! >:^(

May 4, 2006 - Well, I turned 31 today. However, I dislike the number of times I've heard "it's all downhill from here" today. >:^P

May 3, 2006 - SuperTux has been ported to the GP2X handheld game system!