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Cool wall
As our son gets older, we realized that we'll need some place to place his artwork, pictures, and our items. Most people use magnets to put this on their refrigerator, but our fridge has wood inserts on the front to match our cabinets. Unfortunately this means, magnets won't stick to it. My parents painted their wall with some type of metallic paint, so we thought that would be cool. My wife ordered a paint additive this weekend and we received it on Thursday. I put 4 coats of primer mixed with the metallic additive on a wall adjacent to the kitchen and it seems to be working well. Magnetics stick to it and we can put pictures on it. Of course it isn't going to hold heavy pictures like magnets on a fridge, but it looks like it will do the trick. So far, I'm quite happy with this and I hope our son likes it as well.
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Flaw in San Diego's water conservation plan
Another letter to the editor:
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Holiday season in March?
This week was a pretty exciting week for a geek like me. Google Voice was rolled out, iPhone 3.0 was announced, and the hardware for our new Zimbra server shipped. Google Voice, the successor to GrandCentral has lots of cool features. So far I like the SMS forwarding and the voicemail transcription is interesting (it sort of works; it seemed to get a phone number pretty well). The call quality seems decent and the ability to call any number from the web site is also quite useful. I discontinued my GrandDialer application as I don't have any time to work on it. Another developer is working on GV Mobile which looks quite promising.
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Who says hacks don't cause problems?
The other day I had lunch with a friend and a friend of his wanting to get into Mac development. We were talking and this guy said that he admired a company that created "haxies". I said that I really disliked them as their software can cause problems left and right with the system.