Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 28th, 2007
links for 2007-12-29
Ruby, Leopard and gems
A couple of notes about building native gems on leopard
(tags: Leopard postgresql mysql ruby osx)
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Happy Holidays
I wanted to wish all my family and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 2007 has been a good year for us and here’s looking forward to an even better 2008.
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Vegas Baby!
Back in August, knowing that Maggie would be graduating this semester, we planned a celebration trip to Las Vegas. This past weekend Maggie graduated with a degree in English and on Sunday we left for Sin City.
We were already booked into a pretty nice hotel, The Wynn Las Vegas, and when we went to [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General, Travel by Patrick
Friday, December 14th, 2007
links for 2007-12-15
A strange photo of camels in the desert | Frostfirezoo.com
(tags: Photos neat trickery)
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
links for 2007-12-14
Introducing RunAway
Nice looking Nike+ shoe adapter
(tags: Nike+)
Ion3 license violation
My vote for thread of the year.
(tags: Software Ports BSD Retarded)
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
links for 2007-12-13
Best Buy at Improv Everywhere
Improv troop wear’s blue polos to a best buy and causes a “scene”
(tags: Funny imp bestbuy Humor prank improveverywhere)
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
links for 2007-12-11
glumbert – Intro to Idiocracy
The first couple of minutes of Idiocracy. I think it says a lot just in those few minutes.
(tags: Movies social commentary)
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
links for 2007-12-08
Pure Mac: Software for Macintosh
Site containing various categories of Mac software with links to them
(tags: Mac Apple OSX software)
crazybob.org: Introduction to Guice Video (Redux)
Crazy Bob’s Guice Talk
(tags: Programming Guice java dependency google framework)
Git – a Talk by Randal Schwartz
(tags: google Programming software versioncontrol scm techtalk)
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
links for 2007-12-07
Mercurial – Mercurial
Mercurial home page
(tags: mercurial)
Devolutions – C# to VB.NET
how to do things in VB.NET that you know how to do in C#
(tags: C# VB.NET)
Mercurial Guide
(tags: Mercurial)
Distributed revision control with Mercurial
Unofficial Mercurcial manual
(tags: Mercurial)
NWS – National Mosaic Radar Image: Full Resolution Loop
Great radar map of the entire US
(tags: Weather)
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
Getting a handle on your Blog reading
If you’re like me, you’ve subscribed to a ton of Blog feeds. I was up to around 200 until I read a friend of mine Will’s post about consuming blogs. That post has changed my blog reading life.
I went from having hundred’s of unread posts when I got home to my Newsreader, to maybe [...]
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
The Human Calendar
The Human Calendar is pretty cool. It took me a minute to “get it” that all the other people in the calendar were looking at today’s date. Pretty neat.
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
My Dallas Stars thoughts
Well, the NHL season is a little over a quarter of the way complete. So far, the Stars have been very inconsistent ( except for that nice 6 game winning streak last week ). They started the season very uneven and lost some real heartbreakers. The most brutal of which was the game against the [...]