Archive for November, 2008
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Cheese Ball Recipe
Every year for the holidays I make my favorite appetizer: a ham and onion cheese ball. I learned the recipe from my dad and I’m going to share it with you.
You will need:
3-4 packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese ( I do not recommend the fat free version for this )
8-16 oz deli shaved ham
1 bunch [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Family, General by Patrick
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Reason #41235 the American car industry is dying
Craptactular (that’s a technical term) internal design! Case in point: Replacing the car battery on our 2006 Saturn VUE.
The battery in our VUE has recently been put under some stress ( think 2 year old and leaving headlights on ). It finally gave up yesterday, so I went to Sears and bought the replacement. [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Patrick
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
I wanted to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow American readers. To the rest of the world, have a nice day.
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Netflix Pricing
Something funny I noticed the other day about Netflix’s pricing when I was considering us upgrading to the 4 disk a month plan: After you reach the 3 disks at a time plan, the incremental cost per disk stays the same. I would think it would continue to go down.
Here’s the breakdown:
Disks
Cost per disk
1
8.99
2
6.995
3
5.66333333333333
4
5.9975
5
5.998
6
5.99833333333333
7
5.99857142857143
8
5.99875
As [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Patrick
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Airplanes!
This is not exactly the post for those of you afraid of flying. I’ve had this links and videos sitting in a text file on my computer since February when I found them. I was supposed to blog about them a long time ago, but I never could seem to find the time. Today, I [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in General, Travel, YouTube by Patrick
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
links for 2008-11-13
Masters of the Void: Home — C Tutorial with Mac Focus
(tags: tutorial software osx objective-c macosx programming tutorials)
Cocoabuilder – (Erik Buck) Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve
Epic thread about how to deal with Cocoa's learning curve
(tags: Cocoa Programming Learning)
Inconsolata
Great programming font
(tags: development mac osx typography typeface type programming)
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
links for 2008-11-12
Sounds of hard drives needing data recovery
(tags: sounds sysadmin)
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
links for 2008-11-11
A touch of Cocoa: inside the iPhone SDK
ARS Technica write up about the iPhone SDK
(tags: objective-c development iPhone review)