Another semi-useless spot on the web…
Posted in Main on Jan 31st, 2009
When I was young, the only shoes that would fit were the blue ones! That was then, now things are a bit more complicated. Up until I started running, I just got some cheap shoes and didn’t really care. Road Runner Sports has a free service called Shoe Dog that helps you pick the right [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 31st, 2009
Last Sunday, I went to take in our trash can and found a surprise, dog poop wrapped in a paper towel (no, I didn’t touch it). The trash got picked up on Saturday, but I didn’t get around to bringing in the can until the next day. To make matters worse, it rained, so I [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 27th, 2009
About 4 years ago, I became a trained member of my local CERT, Community Emergency Response Team. I attended meetings did training, and even helped out during the 2007 wildfires here in San Diego. As my Disaster Service Worker card expires in June, I started looking at what it took to renew it. There was [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 24th, 2009
People have speculated that we’d become a cashless society years ago, but this clearly hasn’t happened. While I try to use a credit card for most purchases, sometimes I use cash. For me, they are effectively interchangeable as I pay off my credit card every month and use a credit card with no annual fee. [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 15th, 2009
Today I was investigating some slowdowns on one of our customer facing sites and after a few minutes working with our developer and Safari, I determined that we weren’t compressing files sent from the server. (Safari warned me in the Show Network Timeline option in the Develop menu.)
As we’re running Apache 2.2.x on Leopard server, [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 12th, 2009
Everyone is posting a recap and analysis of Macworld and I won’t be any different! My trip to Macworld this year, like every year, was a lot of fun, but tiring at the same time. In some years, I’ve worked at the Mark/Space booth, but most years, I just walk around the Expo floor (I [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 12th, 2009
Another letter to the editor….
In your article titled “DeMaio seeks break for sole proprietors on license code”, the author needs to check his facts. He talks about a business “license” in the City of San Diego. A license is defined as “formal permission from a governmental or other constituted authority to do something, as to [...]
Posted in Main on Jan 10th, 2009
A few months ago, my Makita Cordless Drill started to die. The NiCad batteries were basically at the end of their useful life. This drill has served me well over the course of the last decade (yes, the batteries have continued to work for over 10 years). I started looking at replacing the batteries and [...]
