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From Mountain Side to Blog Post

I'm not willing to lug all of the necessary equipment to do blogging from the mountain-side. I'll have a satellite phone with me so I can always just *talk* to people. However, Corey is bringing along his Spot Personal Locator. A couple hundred dollars gets you

I Hate Email

One day I'll elaborate on The Great Email Disaster of a couple years ago. I recently took the time to undo some of the damage from that aforementioned disaster and move myself back over to OS X Mail from GMail's web interface. It's good

The Adolescence of D-Star

This blog post falls squarely outside the norm for me, but, this is my forum, so, deal with it. I recently acquired an Icom IC-92AD handheld transceiver (hereafter, "HT"). In addition to being capable of transmitting on a couple amateur radio bands, the Icom radio also has wide

A Social of Anti-Socials

I went to a developer conference thing yesterday. My first one in a very long time. The venue was a nice hotel in midtown. The morning started with a light breakfast and this intensely boring Introductory Session. After that, we all adjourned to our choice of sessions, depending on what

Program will Continue

I was digging around for some example code that would help me figure out why I'm experiencing drawing problems with my UIPickerView when I rotate it 90 degrees, and I found a forum post signature thing that read: if (!exit(-1)) fprintf(stderr, "exit call failed. Program

SIGEV_THREAD

I don't want to give away the secrets of my future projects until they're closer to the prototype stage, but this most recent personal programming endeavor was going to feature asynchronous io to facilitate my goal of a very efficient, single-machine system, capable of handling hundreds

Small Victories

The corporate network at my present employer isn't as bad as Bloomberg's - but its not far off. All web browsing goes through this ridiculous HTTP proxy server that is now being rebooted nightly due to stability issues. Further, it seems to prevent HTTP POSTs of

CSS

I prettied up the McKinley journal substantially ... fumbling my way through more CSS than I ever wanted to know (while eating goldfish crackers and consuming a fine Pinot Noir). Instead of having clumps of images, they're all vertically aligned with captions. And Aimee, using her l33t Photoshop skilz,

Most Useless Menu Option

I've been using Mac OS X since its pre-release days when it was known as Rhapsody (DR-2), which'd put it right around May 1998. And I'm not sure when this particular menu option made its way into the Apple Menu, but it wasn'

Idiots

I added some new RSS feeds to my iPhone application (this is a work project), and when I tried to view one of those feeds, the program died - an uncaught exception - something about accessing an index of an array beyond its bounds. Hmm. Objective-C is a wonderful language,

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