Agile Tortoise

Archive for April, 2002

It appears Navision Axapta, the ERP solution I work with at the office, is in danger of becoming Microsoft Axapta. Not too happy about that. Microsoft bought Great Plains Software last year, and appears to working on choking off vitality and competition in the small-to-midsize company ERP business. Gack.

Tuesday, April 30th, 2002. Posted in Dynamics AX | 13 Comments »>

Mozilla under XDarwin

I just ran dselect to update my Fink packages on my OS X box, and found that Mozilla has now been added to the available packages ( v0.98 ). So here I am, posting from the X-windows version of Mozilla on my Mac. I don’t know why that’s so cool, since it works [...]

Tuesday, April 30th, 2002. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

The big plan

It’s time to work on the house again. Kt and I are steadfastly refusing to be overwhelmed by parenting twins, as everyone seems to expect of us, and are diving into more household projects. I’m taking next week off and by the time it’s over, we should have new carpet in the family [...]

Tuesday, April 30th, 2002. Posted in Uncategorized | 12 Comments »>

Chase Cringley

Columnist Robert X. Cringley’s son, Chase, died of SIDS. Reading the first paragraph of this column made me sad and scared in ways I don’t think I even could have imagined a year ago.

Tuesday, April 30th, 2002. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>

John Carpenter’s music

This month’s Perfect Sound Forever has an analysis of John Carpenter’s film music that had me LOL.
John Carpenter has made some of my favorite movies ( Escape From New York, The Thing ), he’s also made some of the worst movies I’ve ever seen — but the crappy synth music he insists on [...]

Tuesday, April 30th, 2002. Posted in Movies | 1 Comment »>

Weekend activities

It was a busy weekend. We went out to the Denton Arts & Jazz Festival on Saturday, and hung out with friends, watched great music and tried to keep the babies cool in the shade…over all they did great, but definitely the heat got to them after awhile ( argh, and it’s only starting [...]

Monday, April 29th, 2002. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Cold lagered pale ale

I picked up a six-pack of Lawson Creek Pale Ale last night, a new arrival at the local beer store. I really didn’t anticipate it would be good, but I couldn’t resist the label, which advertised this as a “Cold lagered” beer, but it was called a “Pale Ale”. For those not familiar [...]

Friday, April 26th, 2002. Posted in Beer | 1 Comment »>

RE: Barber shop hubbub

The zoning commission meeting was last night regarding the . A number of neighbors from the blocks surrounding showed up, and put forth a pretty strong opposition. The commission voted unanimously against the request, although they expressed sympathy for the intent.
The gentleman making the request was very nice, and I’m also sympathetic of [...]

Thursday, April 25th, 2002. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Turtle Fonts

I started on a new shareware app today…it’s going to be called Turtle Fonts. I’m very unsatisfied with the available font viewers for Mac OS X…so I decided to make my own. Target features are:

Simple preview window — you type text, select font, size, style and colors and see a preview
Character set preview [...]

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002. Posted in Technology | 6 Comments »>

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Asher rolled clear across the living room floor tonight. I was out picking up dinner, and Kt left him and Keegan on the floor while she went to check on the laundry and minutes later he was all the way on the other side of the room. He moved at least 8 feet…and [...]

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Photoshop 7

My copy ( well, ok, work’s copy ) of Photoshop 7 is on a FedEx truck for delivery today. Yea! Can’t wait to be fully native on OS X. Should increase the flow of photos to the babies website, too, since Kt prefers Photoshop and the classic version doesn’t work right with [...]

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

15 lbs and growing

We weighed the boys the other night, 15 lbs + and growing. It’s amazing how quickly they progress. By the end of the week they’ll be 6 months old.

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Darn

Chris Wilcox has put himself on the NBA draft list. No big surprise…if you are pretty much guaranteed a top 10 pick, it’s hard not to go, but I would have liked to see him play another year at Maryland. That leaves the Terps with only one returning starter…but they should still be [...]

Monday, April 22nd, 2002. Posted in Sports | No Comments »>

Festival season

It’s spring festival season here in Texas. Yesterday was Fry Street Fair, Denton’s big college party — which we skipped for the first time in many years. I guess we’ve outgrown it, and it’s not really baby-friendly. Sadly, it’s changed as it’s grown, too. It’s not the big hippie freak show [...]

Sunday, April 21st, 2002. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Babies update

Kt posted a big catchup update on the babies page. Lots happening in these parts.

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