First Rain
Saturday, October 4th, 2008We had our first rain of the season last night. It's always soothing and everything just seems cleaner the next day.
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We had our first rain of the season last night. It's always soothing and everything just seems cleaner the next day.
Google phases out referrals program the week before Chrome
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Is it a coincidence that Google phased out it's paid referrals program for Firefox, effective at the end of August, and introduces its own browser on September 2nd? I was playing around in the adsense management area today and saw that the referrals area was still there. Even though there was ...
Strange Behavior with Google Chrome
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008I was testing out Google's new browser today to see how ReadPath was working, since it makes very heavy use of JavaScript. Overall I'm pretty impressed. Chrome seems to be really fast and pretty much everything worked great. Also, the YUI library seems to be working perfectly. There was one major ...
Bandwidth caps are a BAD idea
Friday, August 29th, 2008Comcast has been moving in this direction for awhile now, but they're actually announcing that they are going to be putting into place bandwidth caps. As everything moves towards centralized, cloud, distributed, download on demand, whatever you want to call it, a move to cap people is the absolute wrong ...
If it’s not a single on iTunes or Amazon then it doesn’t exist
Friday, August 29th, 2008There's an article on Techdirt discussing the motivation of some musicians for not putting their albums up on iTunes. My personal experience is that if it's not on Amazon or iTunes then it simply doesn't exist. My family's entire music infrastructure has been based on the ipod and apple tv. ...
Internal leakage from Blogger
Thursday, August 28th, 2008I was just checking out the news on ReadPath where I have a subscription to the "Blogs of Note" subscription that is a part of Blogger, and I came across a rather weird post. Usually posts from this subscription are just a simple Blog title with a link to the ...
Maybe some airlines just weren’t destined to make it
Thursday, August 28th, 2008At what point do you sit back and say that the cost cutting in the airline business is affecting safety? I realize that the odds that any flight will actually need the life preservers is miniscule, but that's the point of safety equipment. If you never need it, it's done ...
I enjoyed watching the democratic convention tonight
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008It was nice to see Bill Clinton speak, there's just something about that guy. It was pretty funny when the crowd looked like it could keep cheering for hours when he got up on stage. I also enjoyed seeing Joe Biden speak. There were some bits that were repeated out of ...
Great new author
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Stumbled across a new author, John Scalzi, when perusing recommendations on my Kindle. I made the mistake of reading his second book first, but it didn't ruin anything to read it that way. Since I started reading his books I haven't been able to stop. I've raced through 5 books ...
Eclipse tweaks
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008I've been doing a LOT of web development work lately. It's strange how you can end up working harder for yourself when you're self employed than you ever worked for anyone else. With all of the banging away at the keyboard I managed to pick up a bit of a ...
Evernote
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008I just signed up for an Evernote account. Downloaded the mac application poked around a bit. In principle it's something that I would definitely like to use. I'm looking for a way to save quick notes from when I'm working or out and about. Evernote seems like the closest thing ...
ABC’s Wipeout wiped out
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Watched a few minutes of the new show tonight. Looks like the producers were going for some sort of mix of MXC and Ninja Warrior. It missed on every count. Was not funny at all. The challenges just weren't that challenging. I predict a very quick demise for this show. ...
Hello Baby
Thursday, July 17th, 2008While watching the first two episodes of the HBO John Adams series tonight I felt my daughter kick for the first time. It's still early, so it was a subtle movement. But it was definitely exciting.
Gotta support The Fox
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I've decided that in order to support the quickly declining Fox News that I'm going to have to get at least 3 terrorist fist jabs in each morning. Jaimie is usually good for at least one. However, that means I'm going to have to get Maggie The Cockapoo trained as ...
The best way to wake up
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Nothing tastes better than a cold Diet Mountain Dew as you sit down to read the news in the morning. It cuts through the fog of sleep and brings your brain to the proper state for getting the day started.