2008
VM Development
I do my Windows development on a beast* of a Bootcamp’d Mac Pro tower and that works just fine, or it would if every project I worked on were virgin territory, untouched by human hands. Unfortunately, some of what I work on has been touched by human …
2008
Nothing Says “Quality You Can Rely On”
Quite like the SQL Server 2008 beta program’s header image
2008
Location Awareness
Yahoo announced FireEagle yesterday, a set of twin APIs for letting you send information about your current location and for letting other applications consume that information at various levels of granularity. The announcement below is worth your time if you’re interested in this sort of stuff.
2008
2008
A Brief Timeline of Last Night's Improbable Events
- 3:05am - awakened by dog barking. Roll over.
- 3:06 - Michelle gets up, saying something’s not right as so many other dogs are barking
- 3:06:20 - “Yeah, there’s a cop talking to someone in our driveway. I think …
2008
Burn, Baby, Burn
Remember that movie where Clint Eastwood plays a fighter pilot? Yeah, me neither:
…2008
2008
Hapiness
UPS letting me know my Rock Band pedal is out for delivery even though EA claims it still hasn’t shipped + a slab of Grateful Dead tracks. Along the same lines, Read the full piece
2008
2008
Winter
I can see where this would make a person suicidal. For the last few weeks, I’ve felt I must have shirked my duties this winter. Judging by the driveways, the house, the road, winter has been winning. We’ve spent the last two weekends trying to dig out …