Archive for April, 2005

I've been running various developer builds of Tiger (from ADC) on my "secondary" machine - the desktop box that I use as "communication central". It's been so absolutely solid that I haven't even had the chance to file any bugs on it! Now that it's been released, I'll be installing the final build of Tiger... »

Emeril Lagasse, of painfully failed sitcom and surprisingly entertaining cooking show fame, has released a bunch of stuff to download to your iPod. These include: Emeril's Restaurant Finder - so you always know where the overpriced restaurants are podMeals - weekly menus to apparently help with grocery selection ReciPods & ReciPods Too: 1000 recipes from Emeril's archives.... »

It was a pretty busy multi-day session, but we've hammered out what we need to do to get Pachyderm 2 to the place it needs to be for the NMC conference in June, and for the Big Release in October. These face-to-face developer's meetings are always good, and are always exhausting. This was an especially... »

The thoughtful and friendly folks at the U of C decided to upgrade the electrical infrastructure in the Learning Commons today. That meant that apollo.ucalgary.ca would be without power. "No problem, thanks for the notice," I thought - assuming they'd be shutting down the server before yanking the plug. They didn't. And now the server is... »

Boy, howdy does the wireless suck here. I practically need rabbit ears to get enough signal to maintain a connection, then it drops after a few seconds with no warning. Was hoping to catch up on stuff that is non-port-80 (like filling up my Mail.app inbox) because guest access on the SSU wireless network... »

We had 2 blemishes on our pachyderm developers pilgrimage to CDL. First, Tim was refused entry to the States, so missed his flight. He wound up catching a later flight, but will be missing some of the meeting today. Second, after getting our rental car (a Rendezvous), and having to catch up on some... »

Over the last few years, I have bought a handful of CDs. Maybe $50 per year. I know - not much. I just opened iTunes, and selected the "Purchased Music" playlist. It's got 100 tracks in it. That's $100, in the few months since iTMS Canada opened on December 2, 2004. Extrapolate... »

My old clunky Olympus D-510Z is overdue for retirement. It's only a 2 megapixel camera, and takes increasingly worse pictures. They're fine if there's a LOT of light, but otherwise, all bets are off. So, I just cashed in my SDLW benefit (a University thing, where we get a small portion of our salary alotted... »

It's not perfect, but this is cool: podscope - podcast search engine. It seems to do a better-than-nothing speech-to-text index of podcasts, and provides a search interface on top of that. For instance, here's a search on 'learning' - not perfect, but it provides a good starting point. I love the functionality - takes you right to... »

Update: I'm no longer using the Flickr Gallery plugin. I switched to use FAlbum, and it rocks nicely... I just installed the Flickr Gallery plugin, which uses the Flickr API to incorporate photo albums from my Flickr account into this weblog. Small pieces, loosely joined. Rock on. Check out the "Photos" tab on the top of... »