Yesterday, something extremely cool happened. Evan was sitting at the desk in my home office. He grabbed a marker, and started doodling on the pad of paper that was sorta nearby. Coolest. Thing. Ever. His first drawing. Now, he's going nuts on his blackboard at home, and drawing all over his easel. If only... »
We're in the midst of reworking the Learning Commons website, and one of the changes is dropping to static files for most of the site (rather than the dynamically generated site we use now). One major thing we change by doing this is the software to search the site. I've just installed ht://Dig on... »
Doh. I just fired up iTunes, and my tunes were gone. The tracks are still all on my hard drive, but the playlists and songs in iTunes are missing in action. I've been using iTunes since before it was iTunes (I was a registered owner of SoundJam MP, which was purchased from Casady... »
An image is worth a thousand words. This is the single reason why Garage Band is so cool: Garage Band isn't great because of new technology, or ease of use, or interface design (perhaps in spite of wood grain...). It's great because it gives me a chance/reason to break of the rut of being just... »
Here's a link to the pics I took while in San Francisco for the January 2004 Pachyderm planning meeting. Some redundancy, but I decided not to remove shots. If anyone wants higher res. versions, I have the 1600x1200 source files. »
After much pulling of (what's left of my) hair, the CVS server on commons.ucalgary.ca is running again. Turns out that Panther handles password differently than 10.1.5 did (yes, our server was that out of date...), so the pserver barfed on authentication attempts. Connecting to the CVS server via SSH works like a charm. It's a... »
This is a test post to show Peter Samis how to use ecto. This image was taken from the meeting room on the 36th floor of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, overlooking Union Square, Macy's, etc... That's a loooong way down. »
Thanks to Bill Bumgarner for the heads up. Looks like Apple really gets the whole syndication thing. They've got a cool interface to generate a custom RSS feed of new releases in the iTMS. Now THAT's a way to keep people buying new stuff... Send reminders into their news aggregators (or websites, or... »
In San Francisco for a few days for the Pachyderm meeting. It's weird having green stuff around in January. That just ain't right. About to head into the first session of a 3-day planning marathon. Should be fun. We'll be spending a bunch of time working on requirements for the current software and for the... »
I had to ignore my unwritten rule about never ever installing MacOSX as an "Upgrade Install". I have always used either "Erase and Install" or "Archive and Install" to avoid issues wrt versions, overwriting etc... When I upgraded the OS on commons.ucalgary.ca, I didn't have a spare drive to use (well, I have the drive,... »
