Marc Abramowitz – Page 202

Decorators’ Show House 2005

We went this morning to a Decorators' Show House in Atherton. It was a mansion that originally belonged to the Mark Hopkins (of San Francisco hotel fame) family. They had designers come in and do different rooms. Naturally, there...

Programming

Quick intro to XMLStarlet

Here's a nice, tiny little intro to XMLStarlet, a suite of tools for doing simple XML queries and transforms from the command-line....

General

Orange County

Watched "Orange County" last night. It's the story of a bright OC kid, Shaun (Colin Hanks), whose dream is to escape the OC and attend Stanford. Jack Black is the druggy brother but is not quite as outrageous as Jack Black...

General

Yay

365 days until I have to do taxes again.

General

Habitat for Humanity

Yahoo! gave employees this year a PTO day for doing volunteer work. My group did Habitat for Humanity today in Daly City. I did drywall - ceilings and walls. Update 2005-05-11: Here are some pictures....

Thunderbird

My GnuPG public key

is here. And here. If you don't know what this is, don't worry :-) In short, it allows you with proper software to encrypt messages to me or to verify that a signed message from me truly came from me. Some more info here....

Thunderbird

Enigmail and GnuPG

I setup GnuPG and Enigmail with Thunderbird today. It wasn't too hard, once I got the right version of GnuPG installed (at first, I accidentally installed an older version of GnuPG that is not compatible with Enigmail)....