A blog about technology, photography, and life.

Hey there! I'm Jonathan, a teenager in California who happens to be obsessed with pretty much everything imaginable: photography, open-source software, web development, electronics, stage management, and more. I syndicate my adventures via this site, RSS, Twitter, GitHub, and Flickr.

Jan 17

Went to SHDH @ MSFT today. Microsoft Surfaces are shiny.

 

Dec 26

I decided to give my brother a Python-related Christmas present this year. http://twitpic.com/v7frj

 

Nov 01

Fun idea we discussed in class on Friday: Trick-or-treating is actually a form of legalized extortion.

 

Aug 17

If you ever need to use a text-based browser for anything, try elinks <http://www.elinks.cz/>. It even has some support for CSS & JS!

 

Jul 27

Went to the California Academy of Sciences today. It was pretty spiffy. I really liked the 4-story rainforest.

 

Jul 22

Just bought a copy of Shaun Inman’s Fever app (http://feedafever.com/). Pretty impressed so far. The UI is *amazing*.

 

Jul 17

RT @mashable IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On http://bit.ly/hGMGI

 

Jul 13

Solving Ubuntu 9.04’s PIL Problems

Last night, I began some volunteer Plone 3 development work for a local robotics organization.  My first step was to create a buildout on my Ubuntu 9.04 workstation where I do my development.  I ran the usual set of commands to create, bootstrap, and build a new one.  Everything went normally, until I attempted to start the buildout in foreground with the following:

python2.4 bin/instance fg

For some reason, the instance did not start. 

 
 

Jul 12

Is at SHDH 33 hacking on Plone themes.

 

Jul 06

SQL Buddy is absolutely awesome: it’s super-easy to set up, has a beautiful interface, and is fun to work with! http://www.sqlbuddy.com/