May 2010
28 posts
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May 31st
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May 31st
Holy crap, I’m opening Xcode. Is the system administration nightmare finally over? Really?
May 26th
I just registered my old StarCraft and Diablo II with Battle.Net … and it took it and offered me the Mac OS X downloaders. Okay, that’s just awesome.
May 26th
There are no stupid questions — only stupid people.
May 24th
I can’t wait for the Lost finale — all you people will finally shut the hell up.
May 24th
As I sit here drinking coffee from my WWDC ‘06 cup and pulling stuff out of my WWDC ‘09 bag, I wonder … what crap’s coming this year that I’ll accidentally work into my life to become a sadder geek?
May 19th
May 18th
May 17th
I walk through the door and have four crises chasing after me. Go Monday!
May 17th
Adobe®: We Love Choice →
valhallaisland: The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications. The free Mac OS X Developer tools (that require an $800+ Mac computer) are the only way to produce iPhone and iPad applications. Both systems are as closed as each other. Adobe claims Flash is open. Apple makes no such claims. If you want to make iPhone or iPad apps you use Mac OS and Xcode, take...
May 14th
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The devil you know
rentzsch: Rich Collins / @richcollins: Google developing tablet: http://bit.ly/ckjuxd Google’s foray into devices feels like Microsoft’s foray into the web. Between Apple and Google, I’m rooting for Google. Google behaves in predictably evil ways. Apple remains innovative in their evil behavior.
May 13th
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Apple Gives a Nod to Newton with New 'What is... →
To uncanny to not be 100% intentional. It’s great to see old, good ads brought back to life like that.
May 13th
Still hatin’ on git: now with added Actual... →
This. Hg does some similar things, but by no means even a majority of them, and the error messages were written by humans, not Linux programmers.
May 13th
About $170 later, we have a working sink and shower. Guess which one was more important?
May 11th
Say what you want about SVN, but when it was king it was far, far easier to work with multiple projects. Now I have a project with part of it in SVN, part in Git, and parts in Hg. You think your head breaks when switching from one to the other day-after-day? Try hour-after-hour.
May 11th
May 11th
May 11th
Oh hey … all Star Trek seasons from all series are available on iTunes for $13 a season. You know, versus $60 on DVD with extras you’ll never watch and commentary you’ll never bother with.
May 9th
Nobody expects the French Inquisition.
May 9th
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And someone just learned why we don’t stand on chairs. Scared the life out of him, but he didn’t cry. Thanks, carpet! :)
May 8th
Neighbor, do you really have to do loud shit in your backyard at 7:15 a-fucking-m? Really?
May 8th
“Oh, we didn’t tell you that? Yeah, we need it to do that thing that the new thing doesn’t do, and it’s pretty important. Is that a problem?”
May 7th
How Dr. Seuss would prove the halting problem... →
May 5th
Rs believe no one has rights once arrested.  Doesn’t matter what for.  Unless you’re innocent.  But then you wouldn’t have been arrested.Funny how that works.
May 4th
To the guy in the bathroom stall talking to his girlfriend: this flush is for you.
May 4th
Damn you, Plesk, for making me turn Java back on to use your “web SSH” to create an Unix user so I can SSH in from a real Terminal. Is it so hard to manage users as well?
May 4th