A couple of weeks ago Mary and I attempted to get tickets to the sold out Flight of the Conchords show at the Chicago Theatre. There were tons of people looking for tickets and extra tickets were very scarce. Mary was successful in obtaining a single ticket, which she sacrificed to me and I went [...]
Google announced Google App Engine tonight. At first I thought it was going to more directly compete with Amazon’s EC2, S3, etc. It really doesn’t. What it gives you is a somewhat limited Python development environment to work in. I quickly read through the getting started docs. I really love Python, but I was initially [...]
I’ve been keeping unofficial statistics at OSCON in my notebook as I attend sessions this week on two things: Men vs. Women Operating Systems on user laptops in the sessions First of all, operating systems. You would not believe the number of MacsBooks. My data gives me 63%. I think based on just general perception, [...]
I am in Portland for OSCON (O’Reilly Open Source Conference). Beware non-geek readers … there may be some geeky posts over the next few days! Right know I am sitting in the keynote sessions, and honestly, given my interests, I would call most of the talks BOOOOOOORRRRRRING! Intel and Microsoft peddled some stuff that I [...]
I noticed that someone sent me an email to my GMail account using Firstname.Lastname@gmail.com when my account name is FirstnameLastname@gmail.com, but it still got to me. How nice. GMail treats uniqueness of usernames excluding the dots. From GMail help: Because Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail [...]
Just because I am a “computer guy” at work, I don’t necessarily know how to make your exact model of printer print. I don’t necessarily know how to set up your exact model of wireless router. And I definitely cannot make your grandma’s PC running Windows ME run much faster (at least I don’t want [...]
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while. Make sure you back up your important files! Maybe even backup your medium-important files. Can you imagine if you were almost done recording an album and your hard drive died on you!? Can you imaging losing all of your digital photos from the past five years? [...]
Day one of RailsConf served up fantastic keynotes from Dave Thomas, Martin Fowler and Paul Graham; all in one day! Dave talked about how huge Rails already has become and then he challenged the community to make three improvements to Rails. Martin talked about what makes Rails, Ruby and agile development so great (while admitting [...]
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