June 2007
16 posts
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: We must get Al... →
I couldn’t agree more. In fact, I’m dicing up some onions and carrots to sprinkle around the house, so that when we begin the great Stewing of 2020, there’ll be nice veggies to go in the stew. Soylent Green tastes like people…
SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo
Shhh! So, I’ve been feeling like crap all day today, which is unfortunate. I had planned to paint the upstairs and the girls’ bathroom today while Kris and the girls were down in Durham. After several false starts, interrupted by exhaustion and frequent trips to the porcelain god, I got the primary parts of the upstairs hallway painted. Once done, I sat down to take a break and...
Long day...
Just wrapping things up, putting things in order, and realizing it’s been a long, long day. Still too many things going on. I’m really looking forward to Kevin starting, even if right now it’s just to get the stuff off my plate. I spent a good part of Sunday night - Father’s Day - fixing a SQL installation, and a good part of the day today getting our AV software...
5ives » Five creatures I would depict interacting... →
sabre-toothed tiger Captain Crunch John the Baptist dwarf panda Casey Kasem
Reblogging
Is that anything like regifting? In any case, I like it. It’s a slick little tumblr feature, and it’s nice to be able to click a link to automagically attribute the below image to its source. At least, where I found it…
Tactically Strategic
I put a quote from an article on The Register about SOA with a quote about considering development using SOA methodologies is ‘tactically strategic’. In my mind, this is where we need to be: top-down buy-in for SOA as a strategic investment, with a realization that implementing new projects with SOA methods might mean we deliver things more slowly, and that we might have to open up...
“This is the “tactically strategic” approach; each project is...”
– SOA - dead or alive? | The Register
“Get Latest on Checkout - As an optional setting on a team project or on an...”
– Visual Studio Team System - Future Releases Jeez. This bit us in the ass right off the bat, and you’d have thought that with all the folks migrating from SourceSafe to TFS, this would have made the 1.0.
Miss...
…having my camera handy, and having time to take pictures. …making time to learn how to play the guitar. …having time for me, so I can do things like take karate with Emma. …lunches with Emma.
Been Quiet
Sorry about that. Work caught up with me for a few days. Getting a little closer to moving out on the 16th of next month. Spent the weekend fixing up the bathroom, and will spend next weekend painting the upstairs hall. Less than six weeks to go until we close on the new house. And, we’re talking about the North Dakota wedding again. We’ll see. Back to the Big Laptop at work - part...
“Shipping is a feature, too.”
– Microsoft misses performance and scale goals with Viridian – Microsoft | The Register
Fortunate
I was getting ready to write a post about how frustrated I am between my current laptop choices, but then stopped myself. It’s nice to remind myself that life’s pretty good when I have the luxury of complaining that I can’t choose which laptop I’d rather have. I could be worrying about disease, childhood mortality, genocide, getting shot going to the market or just having...
Studio 60
So, I’m watching Studio 60 with Kris right now, time-shifted. And, Palmer said it best earlier in the week when he said that, “It’s great, but it’s sad.” Another Aaron Sorkin show cancelled far too early. It’s witty, sharp and well-done, and it’s another Sports Night. NBC cancelled Studio 60 after putting it up on Thursdays late, and broke down the set a...
VMware Workstation 6
Okay, so not a corporate shill, but I felt compelled to write that I’m elbow-deep in playing with VMware Workstation 6, and it’s leaps and bounds better than Workstation 5, which was light years ahead of Virtual PC. I’ve used VPC 2007, and was considering just using that since I’ve got an MSDN subscription. But, when we needed a demo image and a free way to put it on...