It looks like my 15” Titanium Powerbook G4, Sugar Daddy Mac, age 21 months, passed away today. Needless to say, I am slightly less than thrilled about this. If anyone can offer some advice on this (i.e. perhaps it’s just mostly dead, to quote Bill...
It never rains, it pours. iRooster appears to have been a featured download on apple.com today. I had several thousand downloads and as many purchases today as I did all last month. I ordered an ibook from smalldog. It is a stopgap until aluminu...
I had an interesting day today. I re-realized that my co-workers absolutely love me for the simple reason that I do the work I’m expected to do. I don’t need supervision, I get stuff done on time, and it works. Apparently this is a big thing. The...
I feel pretty damn good about the changes I made to iRooster today. I finally settled on a new design for the Alarm Editor (a picture of the old design is the link there). It’s a little bit more complex, but not too much. Also, this is rather unav...
Is it just my imagination, or does this make absolutely no sense? pressherald.com: Benson’s program is a modest version of one begun by Maine last year. Maine gave laptops to 17,000 seventh-graders and 3,000 teachers in all the state’s public mid...
A line from my stats page: 62: 6.72%: dolby.com life is rather boring at the moment. I discovered today that my productivity goes through the roof when I’m not actually at work. Around 3 yesterday afternoon I attached a “working from home” pos...
For some reason I just decided to figure out what I took for my B.S. in Computer Science. Here’s the full list: African-Amer Lit, Intro To Psychology, Government & Politics in a Changing World, Intro to Comp. Sci: Programming In C, Dynamic Earth...
Why I develop software in my free time: “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly...
I am definitely, completely, officially done with school forever. I just finished my final for the rhetoric class I was taking. I didn’t need to take the class, but I needed financial aid for the summer, and it looked (and proved to be) really int...
A few quick things to toss out there. iRooster 2.0 will, without a doubt, be Panther-only. I have zero clue what the timeframe is for that right now. For the time being, I think I have to use the kludgy PMU property setter interface (blergh). From...