http://rubinium.org/blog The Element of Aron and Heather Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:29:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, first McCain does a speech in front of a green screen. Now I see him packing in his lunch with Lindsey Graham at Schmidt's Sausage and Fudge Haus (not kidding). Of course that is probably better than air lifting onto a failing oil rig (doh). http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/07/31/handlers-where-are-you/ I needed a pie chart widget for a project so I made one. I used cairo for rendering of course. This API has add_segment and remove_segment functions but I will change that to take a tree model. There are almost no options or style at this point which would obviously ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/06/10/gtk-pie-chart-widget/ I noticed CNN is running an footage of this year's ACM Awards. It looks like they managed to book some high profile country music singers for the ceremony. http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/05/19/acm-awards/ We taught my son that if gets a "boo-boo" all he has to do is get it kissed and everything feels all better. It has worked out really well. Instead of major crying fits he just walks up to us calmly presents the injured area and says "kiss it". The ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/04/26/how-south-park-ruins-things/ For those who are not familiar, there is a tradition every year when millions of Jews wake up following holiday festivities and groan in pain. Passover is a kind of fast from low density (aka leavened) food. Our systems are not designed to deal with high-density food alone. There should ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/04/22/pharoahs-revenge/ Well I was cruising for new feeds an I came across the flickr blog which had a nice bit of cognitive dissonance as you see above. Oh and I installed WP 2.5 and I wanted to try it out. Then I discovered that image uploads for a great many ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/03/31/st-patricks-day-if-the-empire-had-won/ As yet another sign of who exactly is winning the primary election. Republican conservatives are conceiting to their obligation to now support the man standing (McCain). However, the RNC knows that the lackluster support for McCain is just not enough get out the vote. In order to even attempt to ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/02/18/cant-attack-mccain-go-after-obama-instead/ After hearing Obama and Thompson on NPR All Things Considered last night I felt the need to post some of my observations. You can really tell why Doug and I gravitate toward Thompson and Obama respectively. Both men project a distinct air of honesty about them. The responses to assertions ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/01/18/rubinium-candidate-round-up/ This is a function from my library that can be used to decode a degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) string to a decimal degrees. Enjoy. /* ------------------------------ Function: geo_dms_to_deg Parse a degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) value string into a double floating point in degrees. ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2008/01/17/dms-to-decimal-by-request/ Google has added a feature to YouTube for navigation of related videos. Video bubbles are placed by attraction. If it works like our algorithm at work for displaying networks and flow graphs here's the general idea behind the algorithm. Videos with a higher relation ranking have bubbles which ... http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2007/12/14/google-bubbles-bubbles-bubbles/