• California, Spring 2023

    Another visit to California! This time I did not go to Sequoia.  Don't worry, my friends, I still saw some redwood trees.  We had back-to-back jobs, first in San Diego, then in San Jose.  SK and I spent the weekend between jobs at a 76er's game, Point Reyes, and John Muir Woods.

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  • New Blog Time
    I started my first web page in 1998, and the web has evolved a lot since then.  My first few sites were all handwritten HTML/CSS, first using Notepad, then HomeSite (which became an IDE for the ColdFusion markup language).  At Penn State I used a… ⇨ Read more ⇨
  • Pollyanna Christmas 2022
    Hello, once again we have Christmas lists! Amazon List Amazon List Amazon list ⇨ Read more ⇨
  • Pollyanna 2021
    2021 Christmas Lists! * <del>[[https://www.amazon.com/Green-Knight-Blu-ray-Dev-Patel/dp/B09BC2YY3J/ref=tmm_blu_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1638411986&sr=8-2|The Green Knight on Blu-ray]] (//not 4K//)</del> * <del>[[https://www.amazon.com/Brazil-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray-Jonathan/dp/B009D004X6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=criterion+brazil&qid=1638412019&sr=8-1|Criterion Collection version of Brazil on Blu-ray]].</del> * I also have various photography stuff on [[https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/12SBOBB6BDJ6B?ref_=wl_share|my Amazon Christmas list]]. * Movie ticket vouchers/gift certificates. * Things on my [[https://www.jetpens.com/wishlist?wish_list_id=a14c2c5bae28ba40|stationery wish list]] Hazel Wants… ⇨ Read more ⇨
  • Pollyanna Christmas Lists 2020
    The lists have been updated - items that are struck out are gifts that have been... gifted. Dylan's list is available at Amazon Kristen's list is available at Amazon Having listed all the above, please go off list if you'd rather. There is nothing on… ⇨ Read more ⇨
  • Alaska in Winter

    I got to travel to Anchorage, AK for work again, and took some pictures!

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  • Pollyanna Christmas 2019

    Christmas lists! I love lists!

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  • Updated Qt5 Cross-Compilation with Ansible/Ubuntu 18.04

    Cross-compiling Qt and Qt-based projects for the Raspberry Pi continues to be an error prone, complicated process.  It's even worse when doing it on CentOS because of the outdated tooling (GCC 4.8?!).  To lower the friction, I updated my cross-compilation Ansible playbooks to work with an Ubuntu 18.04 desktop instead of CentOS.

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  • New computer - Griphook

    I built a new computer! JH helped and is now a master of the philips screw driver.

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  • 2018 Pollyanna Christmas

    It is time! for! Christmas!

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  • The Dreaded Manitou Incline

    I had many contenders for "worst hike ever" until I hiked the Manitou Incline.  This is it.  This is the worst.

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  • 2017 Pollyanna Christmas Lists

    Christmas lists for 2017!  BUY THEM ALL!

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  • Alaska: The Great Green North

    The Aleutian Islands! Volcanoes! Polar bears! Ice floes! Penguins!  I didn't see any of that!  But, I did get to see some other cool things.

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  • California? Again? Really?

    Yes, really.  This time I'm accompanied by my brother Scott and by JTB.  We drove around the Sierra Nevada area to visit Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks.  We took many photos, why don't you look at some of them?  I also got pretty wordy, ick.

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  • Cross-compile Qt for a Raspberry Pi with Ansible (CentOS)

    Have you ever wanted to cross-compile a Qt application on your Raspberry Pi but hate bash scripts because bash scripts are literal garbage?  Well now you can, with some handy Ansible playbooks that I wrote!

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