Isaac Jones Blog
Welcome to the Future

Fri, 02 Jul 2004

A Very Busy Week

So here's what life has been like:

  • On Friday, we went to Fahrenheit 9/11
  • On Saturday, I went biking with some biking princesses (below), and then to ComFest, where I held a class on portable electronics for the inept.
  • On Sunday, of course Church.
  • On Tuesday, we went rock climbing
  • On Wednesday to the Magnetic Fields concert at Weigle
  • On Thursday to 2Cos Caberet for drama & music
  • On Friday (today), Anna & Vanessa built their own clothes

  • [23:40] | [/random] | # | G

    Darcs and Parsing

    I recently updated the darcs package for Debian. Darcs is a really neat new distributed version control system. It's easier to use than CVS or Arch, IMO (though I use Arch all the time at work, and love it).

    The Haskell Cabal is almost ready for a release. I really only need to write a parser (in Haskell) for a file format that looks vaguely like email headers. That's almost ready, though. I hate writing parsers. I seem to have to do it all the time. I'm using Parsec which is a really cool Haskell API which makes it painless to write parsers for context sensitive infinite look-ahead grammars.

    Parsec logo

    I realize that I almost never talk about work on my blog, but I'll mention that in the last few months, I designed a large project (with a lot of feedback from my coworkers) and we're well on our way to implementing it in the Mighty Haskell Programming Language. Good times!

    I just got back online after a Roadrunner outage that lasted a few days. I had suspected that it was a modem problem, and when they tried a new modem, it worked out of the box. Woohoo!

    The guy was really confused when he saw my computer though. I let him believe it was a Macintosh (I run Debian on a Gateway). If you tell Roadrunner tech support that you run "Linux", then they're instructed to stop talking to you.

    [14:12] | [/technology] | # | G

    ;
    Misc
    Email Me
    My Home Page
    RSS Feed for this Blog
    My Other (Nerd) Blog
    LiveJournal Syndication
    Mention on Debian Weekly News

    Web Sites
    Isaac's Home Page
    Haskell Web Page
    Debian Web Page
    Google News
    A Go Wiki

    Misc. Blogs
    The Music Issue
    circlek
    nanny
    Planet Debian

    Open Source Club Related Blogs
    Colin's Blog
    The Daily Amoeba
    Disjointed
    dashandthedot
    Harshy(feed)