Going to Cali baby, woo!
On Vacation, w00t! I’m out. See you in a week (maybe I’ll update my blog if I feel like it, but, hey, it’s a vacation :) P.S. JungleDisk rocks my socks! It’ll support CloudFiles here pretty soon too!
Why do we only take the driver’s test once?
Remember back in High School when you had to take the written driver’s test? It wasn’t exactly hard – in fact, it was mostly common sense. Nonetheless, you needed to take it before you got your coveted license that signified freedom and adulthood or whatever. Point is, you probably haven’t …
Let’s party like it’s 1234567890!
Woohoo! Happy Unix Epoch Day! mysql> SELECT 1234567890 – UNIX_TIMESTAMP() AS Countdown, \ -> UNIX_TIMESTAMP() AS “Unix time”, NOW() AS Date; +———–+————+———————+ | Countdown | Unix Time | Date | +———–+————+———————+ | 0 | 1234567890 | 2009-02-13 23:31:30 | +———–+————+———————+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
First impressions of BlueTooth for peripherals
It’s a fine like that I walk between loving wireless technologies and hating them. For instance, I like Wi-Fi, but I don’t think it to be this magical force that will make wires obsolete. In other words, it’s great when I’m in a meeting, or on the go, but I …
Customer Service. It ain’t that hard.
Yesterday I finally got a somewhat overdue haircut at Sport Clips. I love that place! They brought hair-cutting into the 20th century (yes, I know it’s the 21st – I have high standards) by letting you pay by credit card (thanks, Super Cuts, for screwing me over the one time …
Faded Paper Figures
I was trolling the MidiBox Forums quite a bit yesterday looking for some answers for my power problems with my own MidiBox SID. While poking around, I found a post about an Indie/Electro band (More like Alt-tronica – there, I just invented another genre!) using a MidiBox SID in their …
To Flikr or not to Flikr
I have to say I’m pretty proud of my new photoalbum but recently, I’ve been thinking seriously about using Flikr instead. One of the reasons I like making my own applications is because I have full control over pretty much every aspect, with the only big cost being time. My …
Train Keep a Rollin’? How about Train Stop a Rollin’…Forever…
I hate that song. I really hate that song. I want to go up to Steven Tyler with a plastic toy train car, smack him upside the head and say "BAD! BAD STEVE! NO! NO! BAD STEVE!". That song single-handedly killed many a Rock Band evening. Playing it once or …
Circular Polarizer’s Revisisted
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the benefits of using a Circular Polarizer to help filter out unwanted reflections. Over the Christmas break, I had an opportunity to try my circular polarizer out on some scenic views taken on Corey’s grandparents ranch.. The results are quite pronounced: Both photos …