Archive for January, 2008

Self-Disclosure Tag

Monday, January 28th, 2008

David, aka Nubi tagged me and I guess I’m it. I’m supposed to:

Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 facts about yourself.
Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and [...]

Write Them On Your Doorframes

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Deuteronomy 11:18-12 encourages the Israelites to fix God’s laws into their minds and even says to “write them on your doorframes.”

I’ve said before that our church building has some serious building needs and we are currently building a new sanctuary (Or “worship center” using the new parlance.). Two Sundays ago we were [...]

NetNewsWire and NewsGator

Friday, January 18th, 2008

I was oh so happy a little while back that NetNewsWire was released for free (as in beer).  I liked NetNewsWire before but didn’t think that it was worth the $30.  Well, now I can still use it!  It’s fast (yes faster than Bloglines, Google Reader, etc) and you can post to del.icio.us straight from [...]

Two purchases, yet one vision

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Who would have thought that on the same day that Oracle finally buys BEA Sun buys MySQL AB. Two totally different purchases for two totally different customers. Yet, both Sun and Oracle have the same strategy in mind.

Instead of fighting the web applications like Google, Facebook, MySpace, et al, they want to provide for [...]

A Tale of String Equality

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Whereas Mike waxes poetically about what he recently learned about String Comparisons in Java.

Reformatting the directory stack

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

One day I decided to enable zsh’s directory stack and I have been enjoyed it ever since.  The page I linked to doesn’t say this, but I auto-enabled it by putting the following in my ~/.zshrc:

setopt auto_pushd pushdminus pushdsilent pushdtohome

For a long time I just typed “dirs” and got an output like this:

~ ~/downloads ~/Projects/jython-2.1 [...]

Getting your focus with OmniFocus

Friday, January 4th, 2008

One of my goals for 2008 is to get more organized — to accomplish the thing that I want to instead of forgetting about them when I can do them and then remembering them later when can’t do them.

I’ve flirted with GTD before and I really like it.   The problem I had was that I [...]

Windows does indeed look bad

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Tim Bray is saying what I have been saying for years.  And he notices that people are happier to move away from Windows, which I, too, haven noticed.Gina has a friend that is really into photography and has taken note on how much Gina loves our Mac.  So she’s sold — but her husband wasn’t.  [...]

Emacs Cheat Sheet for 2008-01-02

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

One of my goals for 2008 is to work on my Emacs-fu, i.e. learn more of the nice abilities that Emacs has. I read a lot of Emacs-centric blogs and programming.reddit.com sometimes has some nice things. But how can I remember those nice things? And how can I get the nice items that [...]

Another Kenmore Elite Dishwasher Follow-Up

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

This is really the a follow-up to my initial review and my first follow-up on our wonderful Kenmore Elite Dishwasher. Why am I doing this? Not just because those are the two most hit entries on this blog (who would have guessed that??) but we also had our first problem with our dishwasher.

A week [...]