Archive for October, 2007
I couldn’t help but chuckle at the Fact that was included at the bottom of a recent request to join someone’s LinkedIn network.
Fact: Adding 5 connections makes you 3.7x more likely to receive a job offer
I wonder just what the evidence looks like to back such a suggestion up?
All things considered, it would actually [...]
Last night I decided it was time to take the plunge and upgrade my MacBook Pro to Leopard.
All in all, the upgrade was fairly smooth and required no intervention from me after it was started. There were a couple of gotchas I discovered after attempting to use the upgraded system which I’ll discuss in a [...]
First off, the Kensington Expert Mouse is an amazing trackball. Of course, I guess the popularity of them has declined to the point where I wasn’t able to find one in any of the local computer stores. Closest thing was the traditional Logitech thumb-based trackball, less than ideal. The mouse is a gift to my [...]
I’ve been using Logitech’s latest Cordless Desktop offering for a couple weeks now at work and have been very happy.
The keyboard is awesome, it’s the first keyboard that I’ve ever actually made use of the media keys (primarily for controlling iTunes). Nice layout and quite comfortable for coding, a little clicky perhaps but I personally [...]
Finally broke down and bought a Nintendo Wii today. I didn’t think they were still in such high demand but it took a few trips to various stores before I managed to secure a console. Cost an extra $10 or $20 but Toys R Us had one in stock.
Haven’t bought any games yet but did [...]
Just wanted to report that we had our 4th hack day today and by all accounts it was another rousing success.
It’s been almost a year since our first hack day and it’s been interesting to see the idea transition from a personal project to a company-wide event. Today was probably the best in terms of [...]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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