Entries from February 2007

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

What do Americans think?

Op-Art: Who Do You Think We Are? – New York Times Nothing earth shattering here, but interesting none the less. Assuming that they used a decent mechanism to gather the data, Americans are super liberal!

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Entourage hang fix

In an earlier post, I was complaining about how Entourage would just go away for 15-20 minutes at a time. I’d searched the net for info on how to stop it in vain. I’d cleared out gigabytes of messages without a noticable difference, but then looky what came across my RSS feed yesterday! Macworld: Mac [...]

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Flex, WPF/e and the new war for developer hearts and minds

Scoble starts a discussion (Why do a reader only for one publication? (Adobe vs. Microsoft for developers)) and Ryan Stewart picks it up (How Adobe started winning developers) I think we’ve got some fun coming on and we developers are going to be in the catbird seat as Adobe and Microsoft fight it out for [...]

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

cool soccer video

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

some fun with C#

The only problem I had to deal with in my quickie switch from interland to dreamhost was changing the Unit Circle store from ASP pages to something else (I haven’t decided if I’m going to do a Flex thing, a zencart thing or a PhP thing yet). The first hurdle I had to deal with was that [...]

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Support for sculpture gets into show, sculpture does not

[via John Nack] This happened last year, but I hadn’t heard about it before. An artist in England submitted a sculpture for a show. The judging panel considered the support for the sculpture as a separate piece and liked it better, so that go into the show instead. here is the full article

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Greg Pattillo doing Inspector Gadget and Axel F

This is just fun. Beatboxing while playing the flute.

Friday, February 16th, 2007

celebration of cool iTunes feature turns to fear

So, I screwed up some files in my iTunes library. No prob. I grabbed them from my backup. I just dragged the whole album of MP3s into iTunes. The files got copied in and then I removed the duplicates. I had one AAC-encoded album that I did this to. For this album, iTunes only imported [...]

Monday, February 12th, 2007

fun with yahoo pipes

Yahoo Pipes is a cute and visual way to mix webservices and RSS feeds to produce something powerfully easily. Sort of a OS X Automator approach to webservices. Very fun.  I’d been wanting to make a composite feed of my various blogs, and I was looking at doing it in php. Possible, but not a [...]

Monday, February 12th, 2007

the frustration of zencart

I don’t know that much about zencart. I’m still playing around with it. I’m trying it out so that I don’t have to rewrite the old ASP-based Unit Circle store in php from scratch. Compared to something like WordPress, it is incredibly clunky and difficult to configure. There are a zillion different things to set [...]