Scott Gruby’s Blog

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work between my multiple computers and since I like having only one monitor/keyboard/mouse shared amongst them, I’ve been using VNC to control then. A friend of mine has told me that Apple Remote Desktop is faster, so I decided to spend the money and order a copy. I [...]

Read Full Post »

Today I completed the America’s Finest City Half Marathon. I’m still not sure what my motivation is for continuing to run, but I figured I was already in shape from June’s marathon, so I might as well do a half marathon. This race was a completely different experience from the Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon. This [...]

Read Full Post »

In a recent blog post that I read, the author said that he had just finished reading To Engineer is Human and said that programming is not engineering. While that may be true in the pure sense of programming, but to say that all programmers don’t do engineering is absolutely incorrect in my opinion. I [...]

Read Full Post »

Congress, senate, and the president decided to bypass a court ruling and enact a law to transfer the Mt. Soledad cross to the United States government. There seems to be much rejoicing by our mayor and city council members about this; rightfully so, the city no longer has to pay to defend the cross that [...]

Read Full Post »

Last SUnday, we returned from our week long trip to San Francisco/San Jose and as usual came back on a plane. This was our first flight after the new rules about no liquids and the increased paranoia about terrorism. The San Jose airport didn’t appear to have tighetened security and we passed through security without [...]

Read Full Post »

I received my Newton MP2100 last week and it is everything that I had remembered (for the most part). The handwriting recognition works well and everything seems so elegant about this 10 year old technology. In fact, I’m writing this while sitting at the beach watching my wife surf (I’ll post it when I get [...]

Read Full Post »

I’m sure not all smokers are inconsiderate idiots, but it seems that many I encounter are. At the airport last Sunday, I couldn’t help but to shake my head at the smoker in this picture sitting on the bench that says “Thank you For Not Smoking”. It was kind of tricky to get the picture [...]

Read Full Post »

I called TiVo and after 20 minutes, go to speak to a support rep. When I mentioned that I had a Pioneer box, the rep said to call TiVo. I said, no, it is a software issue and it happened after the upgrade this past weekend. Then she said that the issue will be resolved [...]

Read Full Post »

We got back from our trip on Sunday and found that the TiVo (Pioneer 810H) was stuck. I yanked the power cord and rebooted it. It came back up and said it had done an upgrade. OK, fine, I like the TiVo upgrades as they add new features. However, this time TiVo made a royal [...]

Read Full Post »

This past week at WWDC, most men that left the restroom washed their hands which is good news. However, many never took hand washing 101. The first part of hand washing is water, the second part is soap and the third part is actually rubbing hands together for at least 15 seconds. It is particularly [...]

Read Full Post »