Category Archives: Work

Ελλάς: προοίμιο

I’ve started on my first trip to countries that aren’t English-speaking today. I don’t really have any time at my destination today, so it’s a prelude to the real deal. I’m headed to Greece - Athens and Kos in particular, for a couple of weeks in order to attend MED 2007 and ECC [...]

Till I opened my eyes and walked out the door

Life has been hectic to say the least, but I am taking control of it finally. School started, and I finally got settled into a schedule. I am taking two classes with highly overlapping material, both focused on user interface design. They are focused on separate aspects however and only overlap slightly. [...]

I can work overtime I can work in a mine

Labor day weekend approacheth, and myself and [lj user="ceilingsarecool"] have secured a little getaway for ourselves. It is proving to be a nice way to relax a while before a big rush of work. I have been in all true form not updating the blog lately, so I get to give everyone a [...]

Late at night when the wires in the walls

After my iBook problems last week, I tried to install Debian on the thing. I have narrowed down the problem to something with the hard drive inside, because the machine seems to run fine and go through most of the installation without any trouble, but once I start using the hard drive, it completely [...]

Work and Procrastination: A six-hour study of the (10+2)*5 hack.

Recently I discovered the (10+2)*5 dash courtesy of Merlin over at 43 Folders, and I thought that I would give it a try. The concept is fairly simple: work for 10 minutes, screw around for 2 minutes, repeat 5 times, and voila! you have filled an hour with 5/6 productivity. The first thing [...]