Today I installed graphviz mode for Emacs. One of its features is that it will show you the rendered image in a buffer. When I tried it out, the image was opened as text. This is of course not what I wanted :). The Emacs user guide says here that to enable support on Windows [...]
On my quest to rid my ride of rust I found the contaminants on the backrest mounts to be unacceptable. Take a look: Sure it is not bad, but then again, it isn’t good, either. I did replace all of the rusty bolts, however, the powdercoating seems to be eaten away and what is left [...]
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After installing a customized version of Eclipse I was horrified to find that automatic workspace refresh was disabled! Not anymore.
After posting this it got me thinking about a conversation I had with one of my friends. He argued that how a bike looks doesn’t really matter since you are in fact riding it and you will never see it 90% of the time. I agree; it is true. Keeping your bike fit and finished [...]
Due to scheduling difficulties (project deadlines, semester endings, family homecomings), I put off hooking up my battery to a trickle charger (which I’d yet to purchase). After letting her sit around in the teens and single-digits (in a garage) for the last month or so I was pleasantly surprised to find that my buddy had [...]
A while back Eiffel Software (formerly ISE) held a contest to come up with a slogan for one of their products, EiffelStudio. I submitted: EiffelStudio: A Contract for Success – Grant Rettke And won! They gave me a one-year license for EiffelStudio in return for signing away the slogan. It was worth it… it is [...]
Compassion is the act of recognizing that the pain we feel as humans is universal, that it binds us all together despite whatever overt differences seem to be too difficult to surpass, and taking action to help alleviate that pain for others. It is an intellectual and emotional act. It is also physical, you can [...]
On one of the last ride-able Fall days this year, on a very beautiful day, we rode over to Madison to visit some friends. My buddy snapped this picture which shows off the new Connie and Stich pretty well. That was a really fun day.