Archive for September, 2006

The day started with getting up at 4:00am, sending a few work emails, and getting into a van with 7 or 8 of my closest colleagues (I mean that in the literal sense… that van was small).
NFJS is being held in Redmond again this year so that meant catching the ferry from Victora -> Vancouver [...]

See Creative Zen Micro Headphone Jack Fix
I’ve had my zen micro for a little under 2 years and have been plagued by rather annoying headphone jack problems every 6 or 7 months. I say every 6 months because the first time I managed to have Creative repair it free of charge, but the second [...]

This past week was my first week back at work after spending sometime travelling on the coast of Oregon. I didn’t spend a particularly long time down there, but in 8 days I managed to find a bit of peace and relaxation. I took the laptop but didn’t bother even attempting to find [...]




  • Win7, nice to meet you. I hate to admit it but I’ve been running Vista on a desktop machine at home for the better part of the past 8 months. It has not been ...

  • Windows Live Writer isn’t bad Until recently, the bulk of my writing was done on a Mac using Ecto.  I was looking for a suitable publishing tool for Windows and was directed towards ...

  • 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 ...






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