Today I was riding into work - glanced down and noticed my odometer. I hastily pulled off onto a side road and puttered along until it clicked over and then pulled over and took a blurry pic with my phone cam.
Following up on my earlier post (oh how time flies)… I thought I’d continue my conversation on tools. Usually when I give a presentation - someone always asks about some of the tools I’m using - so I thought I’d start with the basics… the browser.
I’m not going to go into which browser is [...]
March 21, 2007 – 10:21 am
I remember installing old versions of Quake that took forever. I remember installing Microsoft Office on dozens of floppies - that was sloooow. But today I’m trying to install VMWare - just installing the server software took forever - now I’m creating a virtual ‘disk’ and looking at the progress bar it’ll be [...]
Tom Scholz has a post on the Boston site regarding his memories of singer Brad Delp.
There are very few vocalists out there who leave a mark and Brad Delp will be one of them. It only takes a second to hear the trademark soaring guitars and then that vocal comes in and… it’s Boston. [...]
I was excited to see the Apollo alpha released today - though I’m not a Flash/Flex person - I thought I might start tinkering around with this at home in the evenings… alas - checking out the Labs download page - there is nothing for Linux.
Download for Macintosh and Windows (ZIP, 18 MB)
So [...]
Saw this on Slashdot…
Scoble said:
“Microsoft’s internet execution sucks (on the whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks. If that’s ‘in it to win’, then I don’t get it.”
I think he’s finally seeing the light
He goes on to mention Adobe - who today as we all know released the alpha of Apollo [...]
March 17, 2007 – 10:26 pm
Van Halen = Best Rock Band. Ever.
Velvet Revolver = Worst Band To Play Van Halen Tribute. Ever.
Watching the R&R Hall of Fame inductions on VH1. Who the hell picked Velvet Revolver to play? Ugh. It took me a few moments to figure out what they were playing. And Slash - get [...]
When I’m coding I MUST listen to music. It helps me tune out and concentrate.
I’ve been messing around with Pandora and have heard about Last.fm. Both are services where you provide an artist or type of music and the service will stream similar music to you. You can usually vote ‘yes’ or [...]