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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2006
On Friday I went to the bank to deposit a check for my business; I made a mistake and put in my personal ATM card and deposited the business check into my personal account. I noticed my mistake almost immediately and went right into the bank to straighten it out. They couldn’t get my check [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2006
The other day, I sent my latest program to a friend of mine to test and he asked if I wouldn’t mind some constructive feedback. I’m always hesitant to get user interface feedback as last time I did (from an Apple UI guru), I was in the host seat for well over an hour getting [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2006
I’ve never been a big fan of switching back to standard time from daylight savings time as it gets dark sooner and the long days of winter are ahead (OK, I live in San Diego and winters aren’t all that bad, but I’m more of a late spring/summer kind of person). On the news last [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2006
San Diego has consistently been ranked as have poor emergency (fire/medical) response times with average response times being somewhere around 10 minutes or so. For a major city, this is pretty awful. We saw this first hand today. We took our dog to Dusty Rhodes park in Ocean Beach (there isn’t a dog park near [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 21st, 2006
During some development today, I had to install the scanner drivers for my HP 6110xi all-in-one device. Knowing that scanner drivers have been consistently horrible for the Mac, I decided against installing on my main machine (which also serves as my development machine) and instead installed it on one of my test machines. Well, it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2006
For a long time now, I’ve been wanting to learn various Apple technologies such as Core Data and Bindings. However, it hadn’t been until last week when I finally had a chance to start learning them as well as Image Capture Framework. I came up with an idea that I’m excited about and started work [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2006
I managed to get my hands on a Sony Reader yesterday as I’ve been itching to get one for awhile now. The digital ink technology is very intriguing and I wanted to see and use it for myself. First off, the price tag of $350 is a bit steep to make it a generally accepted [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2006
I’ve worked on a number of consumer products in my career, some with registration schemes, some without. What is the purpose of a registration scheme? Are people trying to prevent piracy? Are they trying to keep the honest people honest? Or is there some other motivation? For me, it is about motivating people to purchase [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 11th, 2006
Years ago (when Bill Gates said that 640 K is all that is needed or something like that), 512 MB of RAM would have seemed like overkill. Unfortunately (I guess depending on how you look at it), this is no longer the case. I had to send my MacBook Pro in for repairs as it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 9th, 2006
Yesterday I replaced our reverse osmosis system as the one we had was costing me something like $200 per year to replace the filters. The previous owners of our house installed probably one of the most expensive systems they could find and to top it off, the replacements filters had to be ordered. So I [...]
