Petezah

I ran across an article today arguing the cons of pair programming. It’s an interesting read.

About five years ago, due to an assignment in an English composition class, I and some associates were faced with the dilemma of what word processor to use in order to complete our respective essays—the first in the semester, in case you’re wondering. The only thing installed on our workstations was StarOffice, which, at least at the time, was fairly horrible in our estimation. At any rate, Joe was threatening to use notepad to compose his paper; so I quickly threw together something slightly better. This was how Blarghpad came to be.

In the time since then, it slowly became something more and more useful. I eventually even put it on Sourceforge, but it was too much of a pain to maintain it there, so the project fell into disrepair. Somebody even defaced the project’s webpage for some unexplained reason.

I discovered this week that I still had some BLT files in my archives; then, Robert asked if I had made a Mac OS version of Blarghpad. So I decided to resurrect the project. Right now, for windows, there’s still just the latest version from a few years ago, and it’ll remain that way for the time being, since I’ll just be working on the Mac version. Eventually I may update the windows version too. Anyway, the project will be here now. Following tradition, the source is available, and that’s all that’s available for Mac for the moment, since the program doesn’t do many useful things yet.

I went to the supercross for the first time this weekend, and had a lot of fun. I thought it was going to be interesting, but the show was a lot cooler than I expected. Anyway, I took my camera with me and got a few so-so shots and some little clips to help me capture what it was like.

I finally set up my dragon collection. As long as I was hanging a few more things that I brought back from Minnesota, including the cool photo Jason gave me, I figured I’d finally unpack the dragons and put away the box I had packed them in. I also uploaded my pictures from Christmas, so if you’ve known about them and have been waiting, they’re over there in the album list now.