Posted in Miscellaneous on December 31st, 2009 No Comments »
They sell for five or six bucks at medieval fairs and lots of other places - yet they cost very little to make at home. Carey and the kiddo made this recipe today and it was mmmm mmmm good.
Posted in Software Development on December 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
Where dey go? 🙂 The last release is now something like 15 or 16 months old? I know that WO's demise was somewhat expected, but surely some people are sad and/or pissed off about it, right?
Posted in Software Development on December 29th, 2009 1 Comment »
… 2010? If you're like a lot of families on Christmas day, you picked up a new Xbox 360 or PS3. And yeah, I know you'll play it a lot more than you've led your wife to believe. But did you also know you can stream movies, music, and photos to your Xbox 360 or […]
Posted in Recreation on December 28th, 2009 5 Comments »
I'm not sure when Netflix removed the "Install Silverlight or streaming won't work on Macs," but I noticed last night that it now works in both Firefox and Safari. Yippee! It is installed, even though I never installed it. It's bundled with Office, though, and I'm guessing something else installed it along the way. Which […]
Posted in Computing on December 27th, 2009 4 Comments »
When you do a search on the site for Dick's Sporting Goods for something they don't have, I find it mildly insulting that they serve up an image of a referee giving you a penalty. Like it's my fault that you don't have anything that even closely resembles "pellet trap." Should I wait 2:00 in […]
Posted in Apple on December 26th, 2009 5 Comments »
As you may recall, I've been struggling with a new wireless network setup. It seems to me that some people might appreciate the ability to: Force 802.11n mode. Force 5 GHz mode. Choose a base station to connect to. The second might effectively do the first if a base station's "Radio Mode" was set to […]
Posted in Technology on December 25th, 2009 4 Comments »
For the first time in a long time I'm incredibly upset with an Apple product. Update: see the fourth comment. Derrr. I recently bought two AirPort Extreme Base stations to improve my home network. They've been nothing but trouble. They disconnect intermittently. Tonight I've restarted an episode of Dexter no less than eight frickin' times […]
Posted in Blogging on December 24th, 2009 5 Comments »
I have a few headers that rotate on this blog, but on a few days with known dates (Thanksgiving doesn't qualify, but Halloween, my birthday, and Christmas do) I put in a special banner that lasts all day. Simple bit of code, really: switch(date('md')) { case '0101': return '_newyear'; break; case '0323': return '_birthday'; break; […]
Posted in Photography on December 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
If you'd like to get an early peek at DSLRU, which will launch in January, visit udslr.com today and sign up for the notifications. The domain name will eventually be dslru.com of course.
Posted in Silly on December 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
This is funny. BTW, Hobey Baker died December 21, 1918. Pretty clear to me that Steigy had read something that morning and it stuck in his head, then came out in the waning moments of a lousy, boring game. A lot of people think he should be fined or even fired, but if I was […]
Posted in Computing on December 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
Having read this piece at eff.org, I changed my Facebook settings primarily to "Only Friends." I recommend you take a good long look at your privacy settings there as well.
Posted in Software Development on December 20th, 2009 6 Comments »
Work has begun on Cyndicate 2.0. New features already in place include: New article fetch system is in place. Much faster, and now processing of feeds is offloaded to an NSOperation to take advantage of Grand Central Dispatch, so new feeds will queue up for fetching while already fetched feeds are in the processing queue. […]
Posted in Technology on December 19th, 2009 8 Comments »
Let me describe my network setup right now. I have a first-generation Time Capsule plugged into my cable modem. This provides my 802.11n network, "Netski." Plugged into that I have an 802.11g AirPort Express that provides an 802.11g network called "Getski." I have two remote WDS stations: one in the living room hooked to an […]
Posted in Silly on December 18th, 2009 No Comments »
It gets there eventually. 😛 My high school - or more specifically my high school's mascot - was supposedly the #2 item on a David Letterman top 10 list for wimpiest or lamest mascots, but I haven't ever seen that video.
Posted in Miscellaneous on December 17th, 2009 4 Comments »
I'd never heard of this McConnell before, but this sounds about right: And here's the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader's conference room has even seen. That's right. The final bill we'll vote on isn't even the […]