-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=–=-===—=–===–=–=-=-=-=–=-= Day 3 =-===-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=—=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Did you every create those fancy borders using ascii dashes and equals? That’s one of my favorite things to do in a text editor. I hold my index finger and middle finger over the pair and randomly punch each one until I get about 80 of them… every border comes out [...]
I’ll write about beer and terrorizing innocents soon enough, but in the meantime… I get teary-eyed every time I watch this: Embedding is disabled for some reason. This could be completely fabricated nonsense, but I don’t give a crap. Ignorance is bliss. Click, and enjoy.
When I started my blog in late 2003, it was meant to be technical, geeky, and funny. I honored that for a while. I used to write about .NET, Astronomy, and did a whole lot on Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop, Dungeons & Dragons, etc. Then, as my career saw me managing more than coding, I stopped writing [...]
If you’re using Windows 7, they added a ton of keyboard shortcuts that are all very easy to use and wildly addictive. I knew about most of these already, but just discovered Win+Shift+Left/Right, which moves your window from one monitor to the next. Here is a more or less complete list of the new keyboard [...]
In the last post, I talked a l ittle about my QCon experience and provided a list of the sessions I attended. In this post, I’ll go more into how those sessions went… enjoy the ride. Day 1 My QCon experience started off kind of heavy as I listened to a keynote given by two [...]
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I just got back from a trip to QCon San Francisco 2009. A few guys at work had been to previous QCons and the con came with a pretty good recommendation. A total of six people from my company went, and two of them I didn’t expect to find there but was instead pleasantly surprised [...]
Apple Time Capsule I’ve been wanting to get an Apple Time Capsule for a while now. Time Capsule is a backup drive for your network, plus an Airport Extreme Base Station all rolled into one. From here on out, I’ll call the Time Capsule itself “TC” and the Airport Express Base Station component, “AEBS.” I [...]