Today I installed graphviz mode for Emacs. One of its features is that it will show you the rendered image in a buffer. When I tried it out, the image was opened as text. This is of course not what I wanted :).
The Emacs user guide says here that to enable support on Windows you should check “Other useful ports”.
This post was particularly helpful because it explained that the contents of the ‘image-library-alist’ variable tell us everything we need to know. When you view its contents, it tells you which DLLs that it is looking for in order to view each particular format of image file. Just get the Windows version of those DLLs and throw them in the Emacs bin directory and restart Emacs for image support to be enabled.
I got zlib1.dll, jpeg62.dll, and giflib4.dll from GetGnuWin32 and libpng14-14.dll from Gnome.
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Pending Backrest Cleanup
On my quest to rid my ride of rust I found the contaminants on the backrest mounts to be unacceptable. Take a look:
Sure it is not bad, but then again, it isn’t good, either.
I did replace all of the rusty bolts, however, the powdercoating seems to be eaten away and what is left remaining is a layer of rust.
Current investigating technical remediation for this that involve sandblasting and powdercoating.
Refreshing Eclipse
After installing a customized version of Eclipse I was horrified to find that automatic workspace refresh was disabled!
Not anymore.
Do Looks Matter?
After posting this it got me thinking about a conversation I had with one of my friends. He argued that how a bike looks doesn’t really matter since you are in fact riding it and you will never see it 90% of the time. I agree; it is true.
Keeping your bike fit and finished just shows that you value your investment :).
New GenMar Riser Caps
It is hard to miss the rusty caps on these risers:
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Trickle Charging
Due to scheduling difficulties (project deadlines, semester endings, family homecomings), I put off hooking up my battery to a trickle charger (which I’d yet to purchase). After letting her sit around in the teens and single-digits (in a garage) for the last month or so I was pleasantly surprised to find that my buddy had a charger to loan me, space to leave it in his basement, and finally that the battery only needed about 2m of charging for the charger to give it the thumbs up. Awesome!
EiffelStudio: A Contract for Success
A while back Eiffel Software (formerly ISE) held a contest to come up with a slogan for one of their products, EiffelStudio.
I submitted:
EiffelStudio: A Contract for Success
— Grant Rettke
And won!
They gave me a one-year license for EiffelStudio in return for signing away the slogan.
It was worth it… it is a great language!
On Compassion
Compassion is the act of recognizing that the pain we feel as humans is universal, that it binds us all together despite whatever overt differences seem to be too difficult to surpass, and taking action to help alleviate that pain for others.
It is an intellectual and emotional act.
It is also physical, you can feel it rush through you when your heart grants access to its deepest depths which hold that limitless source of love, and it floods through you, invigorating your body and mind, inspiring you to act.
The Lake
Lake Michigan is beautiful without limit. There are a million places along the lakefront from which you can enjoy its beauty. Even from the same locus, it will never, ever look the same twice. For that reason, its beauty can never be captured by image, though perhaps someone more well-spoken could capture how it makes them feel, with words.
You can enjoy it by driving down to the beach and parking, by walking through the streets, or even via a nice bike-path that runs through the city.
It is our state’s greatest natural resource.
Fall Madison Ride
On one of the last ride-able Fall days this year, on a very beautiful day, we rode over to Madison to visit some friends. My buddy snapped this picture which shows off the new Connie and Stich pretty well. That was a really fun day.
