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The 99%… - 2011 October 05
A friend of mine from school posted a link on Facebook that I thought I should share with others. It’s to a site called We are the 99%. It contains ...
Yeah, right… - 2011 September 30
I think LinkedIn needs some tuning… because it’s completely busted. Not a chance.
Fixed-width Font in GMail… - 2009 March 25
I know there’s a setting in Labs to allow you to switch to a fixed-width font… but that requires me to go and do it. Here’s a tip from Leo ...
Rewiring your brain… - 2008 October 25
I’ve always been amazed by the human brain, and its capacity to learn. So when I ran across a video on Google Talks by Dr. Michael Merzenich on rewiring your ...
Apple is out of their mind! - 2008 September 23
I was cruising through my RSS feeds when I ran across this snippet on Daring Fireball. Specifically, it was a link to this article about how Apple is dealing with ...
Perhaps I underestimated the sidebar… - 2008 September 21
Now that I’ve started to spend some time on my site capturing links and other tidbits, I’m realizing that my sidebar needs to be wider. There simply isn’t much room ...
Website reboot - 2008 September 07
As I mentioned earlier in the year, I got tired of Wordpress and it fighting me with posting code. So here’s the new site, rewritten using Django, Pygments, Python-Markdown, Static ...
Mouse grabbing in VMWare… - 2008 February 09
Yesterday I was setting up a new VM under VMWare Workstation when I noticed that mouse grabbing was not working. Now I use my VMs extensively, so I expect this ...
When version numbers don’t work… - 2008 February 06
So, I was at work yesterday, trying to troubleshoot a problem we were having with our customer’s build system. For some reason, we’re seeing make fail with a complaint about ...
Mail for ipod touch… - 2008 January 17
I downloaded the software upgrade for my ipod touch so that I could get the Mail application. Unfortunately, our mail servers use a self-signed certificate so whenever the Mail tried ...
Setting up a buildserver… - 2007 September 26
Several of our projects have grown to the point where the test suite and/or the full suite of builds has become time consuming. Moreover, we’ve been faced more and more ...
Beautiful Code - 2007 September 21
I just got finished reading an interesting book call Beautiful Code. The editors sought out a number of developers and asked them to author chapters about what they felt was ...
When does the patent stupidity end? - 2006 August 24
I’m not a very “political” guy. I’m a technical guy. I like to engineer, and I like to code. That’s me. That’s what I do. But when I read things ...