Archive for March, 2007
A mini-review (rated 2 stars)
Bad Twin (Unabridged) by Gary Troup Just a short review, this book can be summed up by the following: Ugh. I wanted to like this book, I really did. I thought it would add a little depth to a show (Lost) that has sort of lost its way. But, for whatever reason, they got stuck [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2007 under General.
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Shaughnessy Erroneously Reports Nomar Traded to Twins
Very funny article today from Call of the Green Monster: Shaughnessy Erroneously Reports Nomar Traded to Twins In yet another act of sloppy, lazy journalism that has marked Dan Shaughnessy’s interminable coverage of Spring Training, Shaughnessy yesterday thought he had broken his first news story in years when he boldly announced that former Red Sox [...]
Posted: March 30th, 2007 under General.
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101 Reasons to Stop Writing: Reason #13: You Are Not Dan Brown
Found this very funny site via Nathan Bransford, who usually has something interesting to say: 101 Reasons to Stop Writing: Reason #13: You Are Not Dan Brown A sampler: In case you’re still not sure, here are a few other indicators that you’re not Dan Brown: Your computer is not made of solid gold, according [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2007 under Writing.
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Phil the Thrill!
Phil the Thrill is making the Habs look bad this evening, what a great player to watch (and first B’s game I get to watch in a while, thanks to a night off Lemon Wrestler and a night coding – not really wholehearted thanks I have to say, I’d rather not be coding the stuff [...]
Posted: March 22nd, 2007 under Bruins.
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I suppose this makes me a visionary…
Or it at least makes Jeremy a visionary, as he was the one who asked for my list of apps I use often (here, and here, and here). Found the following two copycats (;))today: Top 22 Mac OS X Products: Part One – Technology News by InformationWeek: The Great Mac Software Hunt
Posted: March 12th, 2007 under General.
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Surviving Grady: A few more Sox players blogs
Surviving Grady: A Diary of Unhealthy Red Sox Obsession: “From Daisuke Matsuzaka’s blog, domoarigatomistertheo.com [this blog set to private]:” Very funny stuff from Red, as usual.
Posted: March 9th, 2007 under Red Sox.
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Reading Books…
This is my second (or maybe third) time starting off on Agile Web Development with Rails—Second Edition. Yeah, it’s for work. From reading through scads of Rails and Ruby code I feel I have an appreciation of the language and framework, for the most part. I still miss WebObjects, a lot, when I have to [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2007 under General, WebObjects.
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Hawk Wings » A faster way to speed up Mail.app
Just tried the tip over at Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » A faster way to speed up Mail.app myself, and it compressed the envelope index a bit (around 10MB), and Mail.app launched a bit faster… hopefully this alleviates the issue I’ve been seeing where Mail.app starts spinning the beach ball on attempting to send [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2007 under General.
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A review of “Raising Atlantis”
Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias Maybe it’s because I was “reading” the audiobook on the way to work, maybe it’s because I took a peek at an Amazon review or two (which you shouldn’t, by the way, unless you want to be hit by a spoiler without warning). For whatever reason, I ripped through this [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2007 under General.
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