Archive for August, 2005

So I didn’t have anything better to do this past weekend but go into the office and migrate our legacy Red Hat 9.0 fileserver to Ubuntu.
Actually, that’s not true but this past Saturday was the only time the server wouldn’t be actively used. The server is an AMD 2700+ with 1024MB’s of ram [...]

Came across Slide on business2blog.
Slide is an application you download to your computer. It indexes all of your photos, and then lets you publish albums so that other Slide users can see them, as well as lets you subscribe to albums that other users publish. Without having seen the application myself (the program initially only [...]

Lately I’ve seen another of articles about things that happened a decade or so ago in a time I affectionately term the good ole’ days of computing.

An era where games were fun and could occupy my attention for longer than 5 minutes.
An era where installing an operating system and just learning the in’s/out’s of it [...]

I bet it’s some number less than 30…
Tonight was the night I had spent the last year waiting for, All you can eat rib night at the neighborhood Montana’s Cookhouse Saloon (bonus points because it’s called a saloon). We bought a disposable camera half-way through and should have pictures posted on Flickr later this [...]

Couple things, I’ve had about a 150 images on my flash card for sometime now and have finally uploaded them to Flickr. One of these days I’ll create some more actual image sets in Organizr but until then you’re on your own.
The first set is from Victoria’s Symphony Splash event (fireworks included) that [...]

I’ve been quite busy with work and haven’t had the opportunity to blog lately. However, I’ve accumulated a fair number of items tagged as ‘to read’ and should have more material to write about soon.
To get things started, I just finished reading ‘The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox‘ and thought it was pretty [...]




  • Pet Peeve: Don’t email my password to me in plain text You know the drill. Signup for some random service on the internet Receive a confirmation email with your account information or Forget a password for some random service ...

  • Eclipise Memory Analyzer (MAT) I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it ...

  • Open-source Web-based Code Review Tool: Rietveld Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews... Rietveld. It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You ...

  • An implementation of the JVM in Javascript? Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups. Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There's a demo floating around that took a Tetris ...

  • Facebook Chat? So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously). Not quite sure how ...





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    • Meetings all day, no time to hit the gym. Guess I better go now.... 6:30am.
    • Played around with Fring for a couple minutes tonight, Skype seemed to work (if only to call a test account of mine). 3G would be nice! :)
    • Watched nick and norahs tonight. Have to admit that it was pretty funny. Two weeks until W, wonder what that's going to be like.
    • Locly is a pretty sweet location-based app for the iPhone. Should have busted it out last week in Seattle.

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