I’ve used pretty much every VNC client available for Mac OS X over the past year. My preferred client now is Chicken of the VNC, even though the pun makes me cringe. Recommended.

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I recently started using Sun’s version of GNOME 2.0 as my primary desktop environment, and decided that I needed an icon to launch my favourite mail application, mutt. I’m not much of an artist or a GIMP expert, but I was able to combine the GNOME terminal icon with the mutt in the Mutt banner: [...]

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My friend Mike is getting married in about a week, so his best man Bryan rounded up a group of Mike’s friends and instructed them to head directly to Sea Bowl in Pacifica. I certainly hadn’t bowled since my wedding and probably not since moving to the US. However, I managed to average over 100 [...]

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I think beliefnet‘s Belief-O-Matic is a pretty interesting Internet assessment quiz. The BOM asks you for the answers to twenty-odd questions plus the importance of this particular question to construct a parameter space that is then matched against a set of declared religious systems. The name’s pretty slick, too.

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My friend Alan’s new blog at bleaklow.com talks about being a drum-bashing Ranger rambling about England’s Peak National Park. It’s worth a visit, if only to divine how wasteful the North American sprawl form of suburbia is in comparison to the island form found in the UK. (Granted, it’s also detectible that Alan is on [...]

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Stephen was at Brown today to give a talk, “Topics in resource management”, at the Technical Center for Scientific Computation and Visualization. He had a chance to walk around the campus and its surroundings and see what’s new.

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Dina gave a talk on “Creating a worldwide database of volcanic unrest” for the Volcano Hazards Team seminar series at the USGS, Menlo Park.

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