Monthly Archives: December 2006

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

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Tagged

Brent has tagged me (and Gus), so clearly I have to respond. If I understand the rules of this game, I need to spew five things which aren’t common knowledge about me. 1) I’ve gutted and cleaned a deer with … Continue reading

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Holidaze

That’s what I’m in today. I woke up humming, whistling, and improvising (much to Karen’s amusement) on the standard christmas tunes fare. And some time around 1pm my brain hit a patch of black ice mentally and I’ve been spinning … Continue reading

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TrenchMice is live!

I’m sure some of you have heard me talk about TrenchMice – a project that has been underway for more than a year focused on reputation and rating. Well, TrenchMice is live as of last Friday. The site is the … Continue reading

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Huge Congrats to Gus – 5 star VoodooPad

A huge congrats to Gus, author of VoodooPad Pro, which made a fantastic 5 out of 5 stars in MacWorld UK!

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Mondrian

Google’s video of Guido demoing their Mondrian code review system is available. It is a fascinating system, and I wonder where the people/attitude component fits in. Technically, the system is really interesting, and I expect it’ll be copied to some … Continue reading

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dat Brent Simmons

heh – spotted this and got a chuckle. “he da man!“

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Direct to XBox 360

I’ve got to admit – this is pretty darn smart. Microsoft is making a game development tool set available for their PC’s that will apparently allow folks to develop games and deploy them to the XBox 360. I haven’t read … Continue reading

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when the hell did postfix get so damn complex?

And yeah, before you get all snarky about the venerable sendmail monsters, I should point out that I configured plenty of ‘em. I spent part of the weekend doing a little mail server install. You know, all the basics – … Continue reading

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packrat

I’m a bit of a pack rat – definitely lean towards the “hoard everything” tendency. And you know what? It’s damn hard to get rid of stuff. Making space for Christmas trees, Karen and I finally decided to get rid … Continue reading

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