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Archive for June, 2005

      

JavaScript Drag and Drop for Images and Layers

Seth just pointed me to a very cool JavaScript drag and drop library. This may come in handy for me.

Thursday, June 30th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Apple’s a pain sometimes

I was excited about Podcasting support in iTunes. It appears that my 3G iPod isn’t new enough to make the cut for the upgraded software that supports Podcasting, however. Yes, it’ll sync them as MP3s, but it won’t bookmark them or give them any other special treatment. I find it hard to [...]

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

PST password

So, in case you use Outlook (mistake #1) and you assign a password to your PST file (mistake #2) and think you have protected your personal data, because “compressable encryption” with a password sounds pretty important (mistake #3) be aware that anyone with access to Google and about 3 minutes to spare can easily crack [...]

Monday, June 27th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

RE: Wisdom squandered

Just to followup on my tooth, it was amazingly painless. I had dull pain on Friday from it, but by Saturday I really had no pain at all. It sort of bothered me yesterday, but it wasn’t pain, it was more about the weird feeling of that part of my mouth being a [...]

Monday, June 27th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

DeKlarit RAD

I’ve been developing a large new project using DeKlarit, a RAD database tool for .NET. I love it! It’s a tool for visually modelling your business objects, which automatically takes care of the nitty-gritty of building the database, reorganizing it for updates, maintaining relational integrity, etc. In fact, it does the lion’s [...]

Friday, June 24th, 2005. Posted in .NET | No Comments »>

Wisdom squandered

I had one of my wisdom teeth removed this morning. Seemed to go OK, but the local is only now wearing off, so I’m not sure how much it’s going to hurt. This one was partially grown in, and, being difficult to clean, had developed a cavity. They were trying to convince [...]

Friday, June 24th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | 4 Comments »>

Lightning news

I started a corporate blog tracking interesting news related to lightning protection. I don’t expect it will be all that active, unless I’m successful at getting some others around the office to post. It should get us some more flow at the website, however.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005. Posted in Work | No Comments »>

Father’s day

I had a nice Father’s day yesterday. I got sleep late ( well, 8am, but that’s late by my standards ), and when I got up the boys presented me a nice coaster with a turtle on it, wrapped in construction paper. They got it at the Zoo. Kt made muffins. [...]

Monday, June 20th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Batchler castrators and books

One of our neighbors is in an interesting business. Castration. Well, for livestock. It’s a long running family business selling sheep, er, tools. They have a website up for the business. Luckily they resisted providing detailed graphical instructions.
Also, even more luckily, they resisted making it the subject matter of their [...]

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Girl killed trying to save turtle

So sad. I’ve saved many a turtle from the highway in my day, and you do have to be very, very careful. They didn’t mention how the turtle faired.

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005. Posted in Misc | No Comments »>

Dental Hygienists don’t work on Friday

This was news to me, but apparently Dental Hygienists do not work on Friday. At least around where I live. I called about 6 dentists and dental clinics in my area for a checkup and most of them are closed on Friday, or do not have Hygienists there to do cleanings. Friday’s [...]

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

Half-Life 2

I finished Half-Life 2 over the weekend. Definitely the best FPS I’ve ever played. And if you have any questions about the physics in the game engine, check this out. It’s not from the game, but it’s built using the add-ons.

Monday, June 6th, 2005. Posted in Games, Technology | No Comments »>

Intel-Apple

Everyone’s going crazy about today’s possible Apple announcements. Lots of variables on how Apple could go about this, it’ll certainly be interesting to hear what Steve has to say. I still expect complete hardware lock-in. I seriously doubt Apple will provide a version of OS X that runs on anything but their [...]

Monday, June 6th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>