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Seeing the world through a kid’s eyes

wtanaka — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:49:54 +0000

Before we had Ryan, Emily had predicted one benefit to having kids would be we could see the world afresh through their eyes.

Un-fetch git-svn revisions; Rewind git svn commits; Revert remotes/trunk branch

wtanaka — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:10:14 +0000

It’s possible for an old subversion commit to be changed after it has already been committed. One example is someone editing a commit log message for an old revision with svn propedit -r --revprop svn:log

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Kathryn Schulz)

wtanaka — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:45:20 +0000

My review/summary/synopsis/notes on “Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error” by Kathryn Schulz:

Great Timing

wtanaka — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:00:21 +0000

I decided to carry Ryan on my shoulders today for the first time. Since he can’t sit up on his own, I held onto his arms so that he wouldn’t fall over backward. I carried him into the kitchen and Emily said “oh, he’s smiling!” I wanted to see it myself, so I carried him back into the bathroom. At this point, he wasn’t smiling anymore. But as I was watching him watch me in the mirror, he read more…

Practicing Standing

wtanaka — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:22:18 +0000

Emily and Ryan

wtanaka — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:02:37 +0000

Neck exercise

wtanaka — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:52:43 +0000

Ryan in hooded duck towel

wtanaka — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:18:05 +0000

Ryan held up

wtanaka — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:02:27 +0000

Fixing / reverting ubuntu unity alt tab behavior back to switching between all windows

wtanaka — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:38:09 +0000

Upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” to Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” installs Ubuntu’s Unity, which changes the configuration of the window switcher that is usually bound to Alt-Tab. Instead of switching between all windows, it now switches between applications.

These are instructions on how to revert the behavior back:

In gconf-editor: