I haven't been feeling well lately. I have had a sinus infection and the steroid that I am taking is keeping me up at nights. On the plus side, I have had a few hours each morning to work on an open source application that I am developing.
It is nothing groundbreaking, just a simple utility that does a simple thing (more details later). I am releasing it under the GPLv3. I smile when I say that because this is my first open source project and I have been constantly impressed, since my introduction to Linux, that guys and girls all over the world write code and give it away freely to benefit anyone who can use or enhance it for their needs.
It is this willingness to share and collaborate that has changed the world so dramatically over the past few years. It is an exciting time to be alive!
http://opensource.com
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
The Holy Grail of Synchronization
Okay all, here is "The Plan":
Seems simple enough right. For anyone who wants to play along at home I am following this guide:
The Holy Grail of Synchronization: How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld. « //engtech -
Seems simple enough right. For anyone who wants to play along at home I am following this guide:
The Holy Grail of Synchronization: How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld. « //engtech -
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
São Paulo No Logo
Thanks goes to Beeza44 for getting me hooked on NPR/WNYC's On the Media which is where I heard about this in their April 20, 2007 podcast (skip to 18:46 to get right to it or listen to another interesting article about the Virginia Tech Tragedy). From the On The Media website:
Clearing The Air
In January, South America’s largest city officially banned outdoor advertising. Billboards, neon signs, bus-stop ads, even the Goodyear blimp - all were suddenly illegal. Folha de Sao Paulo reporter Vinicius Galvao describes seeing his city as though for the first time.
On a completely unrelated note does anyone have a school bus for sale? Cause I have a new project.
Clearing The Air
In January, South America’s largest city officially banned outdoor advertising. Billboards, neon signs, bus-stop ads, even the Goodyear blimp - all were suddenly illegal. Folha de Sao Paulo reporter Vinicius Galvao describes seeing his city as though for the first time.
On a completely unrelated note does anyone have a school bus for sale? Cause I have a new project.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Wii Would Like to Play
Well the coverage, so far, of this momentous event has been over at SchlenkerDoodle's Blog [1,2] but, I figured that I would add my POV.
Late last Saturday night I became one of "those guys" who is willing to camp out for a video game system.
E and I were over at Team Chambers' until about 1:30 and since we were close to Target and I knew that they were supposed to receive a shipment, I figured that we could swing by on the way home. There was absolutely no activity, we found out later that other Targets had received some but not Athens.
The big blue box was just up the road so we stopped by there too. I counted 9 brave souls. On the way home I made up my mind to drop of E and turn around and come back. I had planned to wake up at 6 or 7 and head straight there but, I didn't want to miss this shipment and have to wait another month.
I dressed warmly and made a pot of coffee. I put 1/2 of it in a travel cup and the other 1/2 in a thermos. I grabbed a lawn chair and off I went. I sat down at 2:30am as number 11 in line.
There wasn't much activity inline until sunrise: people trying to sleep, the Racetrac guy offering us free coffee, iPods, books, etc. It was cold but, not unbearable. After sunrise we got more chatty we compared stories and kept each other company.
The first guy in line was there before the store closed the night before and had been told that there would be 30 available. The first BB employee got there about 6 am (a full 5 hours before the store opens) he was very professional and told us that he would confirm the number and let us know as soon as he could. He posted within the hour that the number was indeed 30 and gave us details on how they would be distributed.
The 30th person got in line at about 9:00. At about 10:45 the BB manager handed out numbers to the first 30 people in line. When the store opened at 11:00 they marched us into the employee breakroom and called us 2 at a time to run through the "buffet" of games and accessories and to the registers. By the way that people were grabbing things guy number 30 probably had some slim pickings.
H and A came over and we each created a Mii and played for a couple hours but, after having stayed up all night, I fell asleep, literally, in the middle of playing Zelda.
In the days since I have played a good bit. I consider it well worth the wait and effort. My family is coming up this weekend to play.
Thanks to Mom for the Christmas present and E for being my SAG Wagon with breakfast in the morning.
P.S. If we know each other in meatspace and you have a Wii send me your "Wii Number".
Late last Saturday night I became one of "those guys" who is willing to camp out for a video game system.
E and I were over at Team Chambers' until about 1:30 and since we were close to Target and I knew that they were supposed to receive a shipment, I figured that we could swing by on the way home. There was absolutely no activity, we found out later that other Targets had received some but not Athens.
The big blue box was just up the road so we stopped by there too. I counted 9 brave souls. On the way home I made up my mind to drop of E and turn around and come back. I had planned to wake up at 6 or 7 and head straight there but, I didn't want to miss this shipment and have to wait another month.
I dressed warmly and made a pot of coffee. I put 1/2 of it in a travel cup and the other 1/2 in a thermos. I grabbed a lawn chair and off I went. I sat down at 2:30am as number 11 in line.There wasn't much activity inline until sunrise: people trying to sleep, the Racetrac guy offering us free coffee, iPods, books, etc. It was cold but, not unbearable. After sunrise we got more chatty we compared stories and kept each other company.
The first guy in line was there before the store closed the night before and had been told that there would be 30 available. The first BB employee got there about 6 am (a full 5 hours before the store opens) he was very professional and told us that he would confirm the number and let us know as soon as he could. He posted within the hour that the number was indeed 30 and gave us details on how they would be distributed.
The 30th person got in line at about 9:00. At about 10:45 the BB manager handed out numbers to the first 30 people in line. When the store opened at 11:00 they marched us into the employee breakroom and called us 2 at a time to run through the "buffet" of games and accessories and to the registers. By the way that people were grabbing things guy number 30 probably had some slim pickings.H and A came over and we each created a Mii and played for a couple hours but, after having stayed up all night, I fell asleep, literally, in the middle of playing Zelda.
In the days since I have played a good bit. I consider it well worth the wait and effort. My family is coming up this weekend to play.
Thanks to Mom for the Christmas present and E for being my SAG Wagon with breakfast in the morning.
P.S. If we know each other in meatspace and you have a Wii send me your "Wii Number".
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