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Archive for January, 2005

Useful Dead Technologies

I agree with most of these.

Monday, January 31st, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

VIM

Thanks to a discussion with Seth last week, we’ve both moved to VIM as a command line text editor. I’ve also installed in my Cygwin installation on Windows and plan to use it there a lot, too.

Friday, January 28th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Because I wanted to move my mail services over to the new windows box I’m running this site on, I looked around for free solutions and decided on hMailServer with ASSP for spam control. Still training ASSP. Hope it’ll do a good job.

SpamAssassin wasn’t doing too great lately on my old server, but [...]

Thursday, January 27th, 2005. Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »>

Go Terps!

My boys have had a rough season so far, but tonight they knocked off unbeaten Duke, at Duke. Go Terps!

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005. Posted in Sports | No Comments »>

The second TiVo is on the way

Thanks to the TiVo Rewards program a new 140 hour TiVo is now on the way to us. It’s our second and will be hooked up in the bedroom. With multi-room viewing, we can now TiVo something different than we are watching, or TiVo two things at once — which is our current [...]

Monday, January 24th, 2005. Posted in TV, Technology, TiVO | 1 Comment »>

Firefox themes

Sweet Firefox themes. Mac only.

Monday, January 24th, 2005. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Mike and Tift

One of my closest high school friends, Mike Leach, is a sound engineer and is currently touring with Tift Merritt (er, sorry…that should be “Grammy-nominated Tift Merritt”). They came through Dallas last night, and I went out early, got to hang with Mike and get caught up, and watch some of the show.

I love [...]

Friday, January 21st, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends, Music | No Comments »>

So thirsty

This story makes me soooo thirsty.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005. Posted in Beer | No Comments »>

RE: Maxie-girl

Just to followup, Maxie is fine. She doesn’t seem terribly slowed down by the surgery even.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Getting Back To Work

This procrastination article is a good read. Especially if you’re killing time at work.

Thursday, January 20th, 2005. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>

Maxie-girl

Our dog Maxie is in the hospital today. Surgery to get cysts removed. Hope she does ok. I’m sure she will, but I’m worried about her anyway.

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | 1 Comment »>

Folding in Oxygen XML

Phew, v5.1 of Oxygen XML added code folding. Not a day too soon. I use Oxygen as an Eclipse plug-in for all my XSL, XSL-FO work — which I’m just diving back into deeply prepping a new print catalog generated from the data we use on the website.

The XSL I’m using to generate [...]

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005. Posted in Technology, Work | No Comments »>

What is Conversant?

Seth posted a long overview outline about Conversant — the software that runs this website. I love Conversant, it’s a great tool once you “get” it. Unfortunately, I think this outline draws attention to one of the main reasons more people haven’t “gotten” it. While very powerful, it’s never been focused on [...]

Friday, January 14th, 2005. Posted in Conversant | 2 Comments »>

EFF to defend rumors sites

Not so sure I agree with the bloggers case here. Journalistic privilege is already pretty questionable in many circumstances in the courts and in a case were the only thing they are protecting is the identity of some people who I’m willing to guaranteed broke NDA’s which they agreed to in the first place, [...]

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Delay! No!

No live webcast of MacWorld Keynote. Man. Bummer. What’s up with that? I’m such a geek. I feel like I’ve just found out the Super Bowl isn’t being broadcast.

Monday, January 10th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »> « Previous Entries