Happy birthday, first batch of wine! Today was the day Elizabeth and I took the leap and began making wine at home. What started as an obsession over various homemade fruit brandies at a church auction has borne fruit, as they say. After a quick trip to Cornhusker Beverage & Bridal (no, not the world’s…
The new Growl is here! The new Growl is here! Oh, wait, it’s now a paid application? But it’s open source. So now we’re in dependency hell because there’s no Maven-like dependency management widget in Xcode. Also, knowing full well I’m behind the times, I still prefer SVN to either Git or Mercurial. I understand…
Slow running machine? As always, look at Mail.app and Firefox. Nearly enough to make me cry.
I’ve gotten really tired of Eclipse pooping up my Maven projects. Like seriously bringing the buttstain. I’ve loved Eclipse ever since I started using it back in my time with the EVIADA project. I wrote a good bit of the UI for the Annotator’s Workbench using Eclipse. I’ve used it ever since then too, even…
So we stayed at the Capital Center Inn in Kansas City when driving down to Memphis recently. This was a mistake. I certainly hope you don’t make this same mistake. To help, here’s a little travelogue if you will. It looks serviceable enough from afar. Even moreso at night after a full day of work…
Why would XSL use a standard-ish way of naming their string replace function? No, they have to use translate($string,’a’,’b’) for some reason knowable only to the damn committee that wrote the spec. Thanks StackOverflow for the reminder. I’d be pretty pissed to have written my own string-replace() thing and then run across this at a…
Listened the heck out of this album yesterday. I think I made it through the album, front-to-back, three times in one afternoon. The flashbacks were more than I had bargained for. Still being attacked by random bits of nostalgia today. It’s funny the way some bits of music have such deep triggers in the brain.…
Memo to self: When doing a google image search for comical Austin Powers catchphrase related clip art at work, don’t. Unless you’re pretty strictly filtering your results list. Because, well, a whole panoply of macro images of young fillies in various states of undress isn’t really appropriate to be flashing up on one’s monitor. Pretty…
Another in a series of passive-aggressive comments aimed at various co-workers. I still haven’t perfected my clairvoyance skill set. Please keep this in mind when handing off tasks that only you have worked on. This will expedite task completion to levels hopefully everyone involved finds acceptable.
I forgot my iMagicTracProThinger at home today. It’s kind of amazing how much I hate standard mousing these days.