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Monthly Archives: October 2006
Never trust a bank
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 … Continue reading
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A little UI tweaking can go a long way
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 … Continue reading
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Another reason to hate time change
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 … Continue reading
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Poor emergency response times
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 … Continue reading
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Debug Logging in Shipping Code is not nice
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 … Continue reading
Tagged Programming, Software
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Learning new technologies (Apple technologies, that is)
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 … Continue reading
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First Impressions of the Sony Reader
I managed to get my hands on a
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Software registration schemes; the good, the bad, the ugly
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? … Continue reading
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512MB of RAM is ridiculous
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 … Continue reading
Tagged Software, Technology
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Scared waterless
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 … Continue reading
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