@heckj- heckj: RT @bethrobson: Very proud to be a WA state resident! WA state senate just passed same-sex marriage bill. #LGBT
- heckj: @danimal word
- heckj: @alexvollmer :-(
- heckj: @BrianTRice where are u tonight with the #dartlang stuff?
- heckj: good night tonight - catching up with a bunch of @xcoders friends I haven't seen since before the new year
- pinboard links
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/161881325429727232/photo/1) January 24, 2012
- Largest Solar Radiation Storm in Six Years Headed Toward Earth- Bloomberg January 24, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/159742603926056960/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/johnderosa/status/159659196428726272/photo/1) January 18, 2012
- A brief history of personal computing platforms. on Twitpic January 14, 2012
- PyPy Status Blog: Transactional Memory (II) January 14, 2012
- Creation of iPxe Bootable USB | AT@ Blogger January 11, 2012
- The Book Designer — Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books January 6, 2012
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/heckj/status/152807856356331520/photo/1) December 30, 2011
- Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide | The Carbon Emitter December 24, 2011
Monthly Archives: June 2007
OS X 1.0 (iPhone)
Looks like I had my own Mail crash on the iPhone. Interesting tidbits. I especially liked the version number in the plist: <key>os_version</key> <string>OS X 1.0 (1A543a)</string>
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iPhone Edge network performance in Seattle
I tried to use the the network speed test setup at SpeakEasy, but it didn’t seem to want to find that site. I suspect the flash is screwing it up. Ryan Rawson said in an email he was getting 115Kbps … Continue reading
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Syncing photos
Interesting tidbit that I didn’t expect. After taking a few photos with the iPhone, I came home and plugged it into the laptop. iPhoto immediately came active and sync’d down the photo’s from the phone. I knew I could sync … Continue reading
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IM client probably won’t happen soon on an iPhone
I’m willing to be a IM client won’t happen any time soon on an iPhone. The reason? AT&T is charging that nice little extra texting fee for SMS messages. It will be interesting to see how that all plays out … Continue reading
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Got one!
Yep, I got one. I haven’t opened the package yet – catching up from missing the day while waiting in line…
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NoonHat
Brian Dorsey has just launched a really interesting site – NoonHat. It’s apparently written in Django (yeah!!!), and the first lunches set up with it happened today. It’s basically a “blind lunch” – you and up to 5 other people … Continue reading
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I love this quote
From an article at boston.com on Games and AI that popped up in the ACM daily news bites: “A lot of the most interesting work in artificial intelligence is being done by game developers,” says Bruce Blumberg, senior scientist at … Continue reading
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Freedocs
Andy Oram published his own short research/survey on why people write free documentation. It’s an interesting read, and I kind of wish I’d seen the survey ongoing when it was live, as I’m one of those people. I started off … Continue reading
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Indigo Girls
I got to see the Indigo Girls in concert tonight – it was the opening night of ZooTunes at the Seattle Zoo. It was a good concert, with a lot of tunes that I hadn’t heard (I haven’t exactly been … Continue reading
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damn fine eggs benedict
On a lark, Karen and I stopped by one of the new places on Queen Anne – Julias. There’s a few of them around Seattle, but the Queen Anne location just opened four days ago. I hadn’t been there, but … Continue reading
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