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30 Jul 2008

Posted at 22:03h in Programming

I just love this idea: integrating lava lamps to Cruise Control so that you can see when a software build has gone bad. The idea is to turn on a red lava lamp when the build failed, otherwise turn on a green one. Cool!...

27 Jul 2008

Posted at 22:10h in Programming, Symfony

After reading the Productive Programmer, I was inspired to write a custom script to add Symfony menus to my Emacs editor. After some frustration (I find emacs LISP tough to grok), I finally figured it out. (script is below) Anyway, here are a couple of pictures...

26 Jul 2008

Posted at 15:27h in PHEV, Solar

I spent some time this afternoon speaking with various solar installers at the GoSolarSF fair at the Eureka Valley rec center. To say the fair was crowded would be an understatement. I wasn't able to speak to most of the installers--the crowds were too deep....

25 Jul 2008

Posted at 18:49h in Programming

I just finished reading the Productive Programmer and I really like the suggestions, such as SLAP (single level of abstraction). The book isn't language specific, but it is Java-heavy in the examples. Still, everything is adaptable to other languages. There is now also a wiki for...

25 Jul 2008

Posted at 17:19h in jQuery

IE6's well known margin problems can be solved many ways, such as using CSS that only IE6 will read. I like to use CSS and jQuery as follows: CSS: #wrapper  {   margin: 0 auto;   width: 800px;   ...

25 Jul 2008

Posted at 17:07h in Random Comment

Well it's been a long time since I've posted something. A part of that was the decision to move away from my custom blog code (mostly XSLT based, believe it or not!) to something much easier, Wordpress. In the process I moved all of my...

15 Oct 2007

Posted at 10:44h in Uncategorized

Is it just me, or do others hear the words "Foot Long" kosaurus in their imagination when they read the word Futalognkosaurus?...

10 Oct 2007

Posted at 04:11h in Uncategorized

Tom Friedman writes that todays twentysomethings are too Quiet - hence the moniker Generation Q. I get his point, but it seems to me that quiet is a strength that is easily underestimated....

09 Oct 2007

Posted at 01:36h in Media

Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros. and MGM are teaming up with BitTorrent to provide better downloading using P2P. That's good. But cable and DSL companies are shutting down users who use too much bandwidth. You see, their business model assumes that most users use their...

08 Oct 2007

Posted at 09:01h in Uncategorized

I was stumped for a moment by this error on the Mac. It turns out that the simple solution is to sign out, and then sign in again.The same goes for the SPH200D when it is not able to skype-out. Just sign out and then...

14 Sep 2007

Posted at 06:22h in Uncategorized

Here is an interesting event coming up next year. I'm not sure to what extent it will interest life coaches, but the form to receive updates mentions coaching services....

17 Aug 2007

Posted at 10:28h in Uncategorized

An interesting article at Edmunds talks about Chevy and A123Systems teaming up. "Weber said GM believes electric power is the only way to achieve the automaker's goal of taking the automobile out of the environmental equation because it emits no emissions."...

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