When I was working, I always felt that I was a good inter-personal communicator. What I mean is that when it came to conversations, I was a good participator. It didn’t matter whether this was a one on one conversation or a group situation – I could hold my own. Since I have stopped working, [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2007’
Site was down for the last 3 days
My hosting service is Netfirms and we have been with them for a number of years. Overall they have been OK. We have outages and problems but they never last very long and the few problems that seemed big, their service was responsive. I count that as OK. I would count it as better if [...]
Scary stuff!
A few years ago, quite a few, a friend of mine had a heart attack. I had lost touch with him for awhile so didn’t learn about it for a while but it was still shocking and scary. In a way, I’m not sure why it was scary because he was always worried about heart [...]
Blog Software Update
WordPress just had a small update from version 2.1 to 2.11 which was some minor bug fixes and a couple of security fixes. I’m pretty diligent about upgrading so I upgraded this morning. My reason for upgrading so diligently is simple. I skipped an upgrade once and it was a big pain to recover. I [...]
UPB Update (UPB = home automation)
Well, I’ve finally setup (but not tested) my last UPB device. This device is a bit odd. It’s a sprinkler controller and even by UPB devices is unusual. A sprinkler controller is required to control several (in my case 5 but the device can control zones. Zones are areas which cover an area of a [...]
Blog – some cleanup
Hey, I got a comment. Yep, my blog got an real comment. Cool. Well, that was a bit of a problem though because it made me see that my comment pages in all my themes are set up wrong. The problem was that I had the comments happening after a </div> mark. It made everything [...]
Teaching – some thoughts
Recently, Steve Jobs spoke on education and what’s wrong with it. Steve is quite a pontificator but in my observations, he over simplifies. I think he does this because at heart, he’s a marketing guy and it’s all about bullet points, key messages and sound bytes. In this instance, this over simplification is more than [...]
Parallels – issues with latest RC
Ok, remember 8 or so posts ago? I was talking about stability and had to rebuild my system to get it back to a great state. Now I’m very cautious about adding apps, tools, and such to my system. I make sure that I have a clean uninstall path in case I run into something [...]
DMCA, Copyright run amuck!
As, I’ve mentioned in the past, our country and perhaps the world is letting corporations decide how democracies should determine laws. Democracies are supposed to be governing systems run by people where as corporations are not people though in some fake sense, they have some legal rights that are similar. The differences though are what [...]
Back to OS X Development
Now that I’ve got a very stable and very powerful OS X environment, I’m attempting to spend some of my non-copious amount of spare time on learning to using the OS X development environment – X Code. Remember that a few weeks ago, I got a new Mac Pro so this should be a good [...]
I made it today…
I made my “make up” guitar lesson today. I even did it even though I had a pretty darn bad migraine going on at the time. Mick is going back and covering some basics while also getting some more advanced skills at the same time. His methods always seem strange to me but I must [...]
Oops, I missed it.
Things got crazy and I just missed my guitar lesson. I know I’m getting old but this is just wrong. I’ve been working on some interesting stuff in Guitar lessons lately (we are working on a version of House of the Rising Sun with Hybrid Picking)… yet, with the heavy load this week has brought, [...]
MPAA and RIAA – I’ve been quiet…
…yes, I’ve been quiet. Not sure why so here is some interesting bits. First. The MPAA is out to portray Canada as the big bad of movie and TV piracy. Not sure why but here is a site to the rescue: Techdirt is showing why Canada is not really a pirate den. Of course as [...]
Wow! The Earth Moved … Apple’s Job’s wants to remove DRM!
Check out Steve Job’s Thoughts on Music where he pontificates greatly on how music, downloaded music, iPod, iTunes, and DRM have affected the music industry. It’s a very interesting read. Here is one of the key statements from Steve: So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits [...]
X10 to UPB – last transition, I hope!
I’ve got the last device, a Rain8UPB device, which will control my sprinkler system using UPB. Unfortunately, the documentation that came with the device looked initially like it might not work. I quickly sent an email off to the company who makes the product and got a response, even over the weekend. It was even [...]