@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: October 2007
Google Website Optimizer
Last night I attended a Google Tech Talk in Seattle – they were doing an overview of Google Website Optimizer. For those who haven’t heard of this, it’s a feature buried farther than most, under the AdWords application functionality. But … Continue reading
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Woot! Gmail IMAP
Yeah!!! I’ve got IMAP enabled on my Gmail account. I’m sure I’ll continue to use the web interface during the day, but having more general access to it (and through Apple’s Mail.app) is going to be great!
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Upgrading to Leopard
It’s been an interesting day on the laptop. I picked up Leopard this morning, and after having backed up my laptop last night, I did the install. I thought about an upgrade install, but I decided against it – maybe … Continue reading
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GrandPerspective
I spotted this tool at first from jonathan saggau’s, but I didn’t know what it was. mdmunoz pointed me to the tool – GrandPerspective. Man – this is a tool I’ve been looking for. I’ve seen the grid-maps used before … Continue reading
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Voice in Leopard
Leopard’s new “read me that…” voice (the built-in voice synthesis) is just amazing. I spotted a post talking about it at Jonathan Saggau’s blog. Anyone know what Jonathan was using to get that relative size map of file sizes? I’d … Continue reading
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no Gmail IMAP love for me
Google has announced IMAP access to GMail accounts, but it’s apparently not enabled for everyone. I guess they might be doing it in sections or something, but when I followed the directions for setting it up, the “Enable IMAP” portion … Continue reading
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Making Things Talk
A few weeks ago, I took some surveys and received some Amazon gift certificates in return for my semi-random murmurs and reasonings. I did what any other geek might do – I bought stuff from Amazon with them – geek … Continue reading
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official iPhone SDK coming February
The story is (briefly, I suspect) available on Apple’s “hot news” page. (Although I caught the news of it on Twitter from Buzz, Gruber and Dan Pasco). The text of the announcement reads like we’ll be seeing some sort of … Continue reading
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MacPorts curl not resolving localhost
Here’s an odd one I ran into tonight. I had been using curl to debug some http REST code I’ve been working on, and recently it stopped working. I finally tracked it down to a version of curl that I … Continue reading
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Finished Halo
Tonight we finished Halo 3. My brother in law (Dan) and I finished it up this evening, playing “Heroic”. Of course, now we have to take it down on Legendary…
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