Archive for March 2010
Proposed Units of Measure
The word “few” is commonly used to describe an amount. Though many people assume when someone says “few”, they mean 3 or in the neighborhood of 3 of whatever they are referring to. There is not a specific number that represents the word “few.” It gives a rough idea of the total amount. So I … Continue reading
Menu Items
I guess I never noticed it, but I have a lot of menu icons! In order from left to right is: Adium Waveboard Tweetie BetterTouchTool Alfred Dropbox Google Notifier – Calendar Google Notifier – GMail Caffeine MobileMe Sync Time Machine Bluetooth Wireless Audio/Volume Time Spotlight Check out a screenshot of all of them on my … Continue reading
Macbook Pro
After almost a month without a laptop, I finally got one again. You’d be surprised how much wish you had a laptop when don’t have one. It is a 15″ Macbook Pro. 2.66 GHz processor. 4Gb RAM. Now I get to go through and install all of the software and set up all of my … Continue reading
.htaccess vs. MAMP
This took me three days to figure out so hopefully this saves someone else a little bit of time. The most common use of .htaccess files is removing file extensions, such as index.php, from a website URL. They are much ore powerful than that though. I’m not going to go into the details about what … Continue reading
Darth Vader
I have some kind of obsession with Darth Vader. I don’t even like the Star Wars movies, but I really like Darth Vader. At work, they changed my name of my phone to say ‘Darth Vader’. So when I call someone, their phone says like Darth Vader is calling them. How cool is that!
Automated Queries
Not sure how it happened but Google thinks I am a bot. I typed in the CAPTCHA and I haven’t seen the message since. The only thing I can think of was our network was having problems connecting at the beginning of the day. Maybe something got thrown out of whack at the same time … Continue reading