While working on a project using google maps, I needed to control the mouse cursor to help indicate which of several tools was active (much like many popular applications such as the Adobe tools and various CAD packages do for example). Unfortunately Google does not provide a way (and certainly not a documented way) to control the cursor over the map aside from during drag and drop.

On Thursday (11/20/2008) Adrian delivered Stevie to his new owners, a nice second year vet candidate that wanted to take him on as one of her own pets.

Lets say you need to setup 5, 10, or maybe 1000s of gumstix with the same root fs. None of the stock images have what you need and many have many items you don’t need. You could of course, start with one of the minimal images (say gumstix-minimal-image) and then, once it is installed, use ipkg to install all the packages you need and in a final step pull the image back out of flash (I’m not sure how you would do that, or if the gumstix would even allow it. You could do it using one of the boot from SD/MMC/CF images, and then take the tree and turn it into a JFFS2 images once it was setup). Of course, when you need to update the image, you have to repeat the process of starting from a stock binary, installing everything (hope you kept good notes and that nothing changed) and pulling the image.

We found Stevie hiding under my AC unit on Monday, Nov. 3rd, 2008. He was paralyzed with fear. He was shaking and his eyes were dilated. He is de-clawed so we hoped his owner was nearby and he had just gotten outside by accident. After a visit to the vet to check for a chip (no luck) we walked around knocking on doors with no luck. We called all the local vets and shelters as well as posted on various internet lost pet systems. We even have stupid signs in front of my house.

Can’t pass a bill the first time? No problem. Nothing makes congressmen forget their principles like riders. Add an unrelated solar energy subsidy here (Sounds like something we should do in an energy bill.) a unrelated tax break there (I’m all for lower taxes, but doesn’t that belong in a tax bill?) and viola, most congress men and woman are completely blinded by the unrelated treats to notice that the bill they are passing tramples many if not all of their core beliefs (or at least what they claim are their core beliefs while campaigning).