Flyover Country

WWDC might be catching most of the news right now, but Microsoft has its own developer event going on now too. TechEd Europe in Amsterdam just got started with a terrific keynote and some very cool product announcements. You can now download free Express editions of each of the Visual Studio products: C#, VB, C++, [...]

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So a multi-billion dollar company introduces its sleek and sexy new operating system today. Wall Street yawns and drops its stock price by 3%, and tons of this company’s users cry foul over the 3rd party applications being driven out of the market due to this huge company’s new features. Meanwhile, I sit back and [...]

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I ended up purchasing a Toyota Scion tC last week. I’m incredibly pleased with the purchsae; the car has power everything standard, AC standard, keyless entry standard, 17″ alloy rims and the same tires they put on a $30,000 Lexus, a decent speaker system and CD player standard, blah blah blah. And it’s all at [...]

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My 1995 Mazda 626 is horked. And I mean completely a goner.
I was in an accident 6 weeks ago that damaged the bumpers and screwed up the trunk. I finally took the car into the shop to have it looked at last week only to find out that it was deemed a total [...]

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I’m banging out a little application on Mac OS X in Obj-C/Cocoa currently. With any luck, I will have this done in the near future, and I’ll sell a few copies per month. I tend not to have to use the documentation for NSImage that often; iRooster doesn’t do too much with these objects. The [...]

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I am trying to make things right in the world again. In a fit of despair I emailed Ben Folds’ brother, Chuck Folds. “Dear Chuck,” I write, “I am a freaky psychopath trying to right a great karmic imbalance after mystery musician bought my software. Please let me give you and your brother iRooster.”
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I took my car into the shop today to get it fixed. Finally. I get rear-ended a month ago and I finally find the time to fix my damned car. Anyway, I got a friggin’ Volvo S60 from the rental car place out of the deal. I’m going to only have to pay something like [...]

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So I just had someone really unexpected buy iRooster. Suffice it to say, I really don’t like his music, he’s been on TRL a lot, and you’ve undoubtedly heard of his band. Weird. Just profoundly fucking weird. Anyway, I salute you, mystery musician. Thanks for supporting this young software developer.

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“Sure, you’re right, I can’t break into OS 9. But I can’t telnet into a fucking rock now, either, can I?”

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This website is really, really wrong. But funny as hell. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to let the six of you reading this in on this phenomenally inappropriate joke.
(and I, for one, salute our new zombie overlords)

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