Monthly Archives: April 2006

When I arrived at my car, it started. So I thought, “Hey, leah’s with me – let’s see how far we can get to the mechanic’s shop…” It turns out the answer is “about half way”, with the final landing … Continue reading →

I loaned the car to David (Karen’s cousin) and Krista (his wife) for a little trip up the San Juan islands. They apparently had a lovely time, except that my alternator determined that while someone else had the car should … Continue reading →

I hate it when I loose work. I got a good three hours of typing in this evening, and then immediately fat fingered things and lost it all. Thank god for source control – I’ve only lost the last few … Continue reading →

Brent mentioned he was working on opening the proverbial kimino – telling all the people who want feature X, Y, or Z in NetNewsWire how to get it there. And now he’s gone and done it. I can’t believe he’s … Continue reading →

Seattle Mind Camp v2.0 (or maybe v .20) is happening two weekends from now. I’ve signed up to go – and this time Karen’s going with me! I enjoyed the last one, so I’m looking forward to seeing what comes … Continue reading →

As if traffic wasn’t bad enough, can you imagine what the Chinese president’s visit is going to do to it? Maybe most of the chaos will happen over on the east side… I doubt it, but you never know. I … Continue reading →

I’ve been spoiled by MacOS X. Every system comes with Perl, Python, Ruby, and a couple of shells all preinstalled. That’s like 10x more than Windows XP comes installed with. Yeah, I know – it’s not hard to get any … Continue reading →

It’s such a nifty little program – ab – provided by the Apache group. But you know what? You can really do yourself some damage with that thing. My desktop took nearly an hour to recover from that…

Today was definitely “nursery” day. We hit three different nurseries, and spent more money than I expected – although Karen asserts we’re doing well for everything we purchased. The particularly cool things we got include two dwarf cherry trees, a … Continue reading →

You know, I’m just not all that interested in BootCamp – the technology that let’s you boot Windows XP on your Intel Mac. Just doesn’t buy me much. I so much prefer the Mac OS given a choice… But then … Continue reading →