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The Top Idea in Your Mind: Normally I read Daring Fireball just to see what the Apple Apologists Dedicated Users have to say about things going on, but there’s also some other good things that come through, including a post by Paul Graham entitled “The Top Idea in Your Mind”. Teaser paragraph: “I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I'd thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the...; posted @ Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:16 PM | Feedback (0)

AT&T Samsung Epix upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5: This post has the details. One ‘interesting’ thing is that the upgrade paths only explicitly detail how to do it if you connect your phone to a computer using Vista or Windows XP. There is no Windows 7 path, in fact, the fine print explicitly says that you can’t use either of the download tools with Windows 7 (my guess is that it required too much work to create a Windows 7 specific download tool so soon to when Windows 7 Phones will be available anyway). I wonder what would happen if you set the Vista download tool...; posted @ Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:25 PM | Feedback (0)

Pool Safety is Important: A completely unrelated topic to what I normally post, but what the hell. If you have kids, and they are going to be in a situation where there is a pool involved, make sure it is fully staffed, especially with lifeguards. Very good friend of mine had the ‘joy’ of having her kid (a decent swimmer for her age, but age 4) pulled from a pool today because apparently the non-lifeguard staff lost sight of her and didn’t notice that she was struggling and in danger. Luckily, the lifeguards did their job and all is well. All’s...; posted @ Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:33 PM | Feedback (0)

Concrete Blonde, 6/12/2010, Vic Theater, Chicago, IL: I’ve never been what I would call the ‘target market’ for Concrete Blonde. I don’t care about vampire songs, the recurrent anti-religious and “be true to yourself” lyrical themes have never done much for me, and I’m pretty sure I’m not a young single woman looking for a role model (let me check….nope), or whatever other demographic trends towards them. But they’ve always been one of my favorite bands and for a number of reasons. The guitarist John Mankey has always been solid, there’s the “don’t mind the details” nostalgic reasons why their songs have resonated for...; posted @ Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:38 AM | Feedback (0)

Congrats to the Hawks: I thought they should have won in five, but there you go. It was one of the worst goaltending Cup Finals ever (so Fleury would have fit in), but the better team won. The Hawks face massive salary cap issues, but like the Pens, the core that they have is tied up for a bit, so they will be in the running for years to come. A Pens-Hawks final would be interesting. It was fun to head to Clark Street to watch the celebrations for a while. Since comments are disabled: Oot aboot round...; posted @ Friday, June 11, 2010 9:33 PM | Feedback (0)

FeedBurner stats gone wacky: I’ve always felt that SEO was, to use highly technical terminology, a lot of crapola (which is highly annoying to a business partner of mine who knows a lot about the subject), and not in small part due to the, to use highly technical terminology, random flakiness of web analytics in general. It’s not a science, and I’m not sure it’s an art. But, for better or (probably largely) worse, if you build web sites, you have to deal with it. For this piece of crap blog, I have some sort of web analytics being recorded in a number...; posted @ Wednesday, May 26, 2010 6:45 PM | Feedback (0)

Postmortem of Pens-Habs series: Halak good, Fleury bad. The end.; posted @ Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8:29 PM | Feedback (1)

I’ve seen the future, and it’s a memristor: I’m going to go along with the info in the link and admit that I don’t really fully understand this. But, if I do understand this, and it is the future, it changes everything. No more worries, for instance, about if an RDBMS can scale, since a single instance could load, hold and process the entire internet. Sweet. Take a look here and here.; posted @ Friday, May 07, 2010 8:45 PM | Feedback (0)

Odd Comment Spam: Because I moderate comments (though very loosely as described here), I get very little comment spam (a couple a day), as people try to find some usually older post to try and get one in, at which point they open the floodgates (last time it happened, I started getting hundreds a day). It’s annoying but manageable. The topics tend to rotate. For a while, it was selling term papers to college students. Recently, it’s been about small business loans. Really boring stuff. Recently, I got one on one of my CQRS posts: This is all good advice...; posted @ Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:16 PM | Feedback (0)

Windows XP Mode No Longer Requires Hardware Virtualization: For those of you running Windows 7 but without hardware virtualization support (either wrong CPU or no option to enable in BIOS), you can now run Windows XP mode, as they’ve removed that requirement. Checkout the download here. I was prompted to download three files, the main 400+ MB file and then two updates that needed to be run. It was a little confusing because there was no indication that the hardware requirement was removed (and other places on the site still say that it is required), but I’ve been able to set it up successfully and run it.; posted @ Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:20 PM | Feedback (1)

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