As you can see, I am changing the format of the dates on my journal entries. I am going to try to write here more often – now that I am able to post to WordPress from the command line, it frees me up to write my journal entries in text files and upload later. However, since my journal entries are all stored as text files on my Libretto (and checked into Subversion), I need them to conform to the way I like to keep dates in filenames.

I want to keep this short. The main reason I am writing here today is to wish my wife Laura a happy birthday. Happy Birthday, sweetie! I know I already wrote this on Facebook, but who can have too many birthday wishes? Nobody, that’s who!

I am writing this on my Toshiba Libretto in Vim (the One True Text Editor). I am working on my detailed installation notes, and will post them in the next week or so. I might post some pictures, too, but I’ll have to move over to the Mac for that. No USB means no camera downloads to the Libretto.

I have also been working on the fifth piece in my series of untitled piano works. I have been writing it in Lilypond (like all the other untitled pieces) on the Libretto, and works pretty well. I haven’t figured out a way to play midi files directly on the Debian Linux command line, though, so I have been going through the lengthy process of converting them to WAV files using Timidity. Not too bad, though.

Now I am going to experiment with the Libretto’s hibernation feature. Hopefully it won’t erase any data – wish me luck!!