Flyover Country

Today should be Tiger Day here at the sixDollarChimp ranch. We’re heading out to pick up a copy as soon as we can rouse ourselves from our slumber on this hopefully beautiful Saturday morning. Friday would have been Tiger Day, but bigger (babel’ing) fish had to fry first.
Our intention is to be waiting [...]

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May 14 2005.

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I touched upon two wildly different political viewpoints today in my reading. The first was from another Mac shareware developer, Eric Barzeski, who wrote a truly chilling blog entry about his freaky conservative beliefs in guns, guns, everywhere! And, I quote: “Guns are perfectly safe instruments in the hands of respectful individuals - fathers who [...]

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Another Sunday means another iRooster update. This week saw a few developments.
iRooster for Mac OS X
I am still plowing through v2.1.1. I released Beta 4 this week, which features a large reduction in lines of code in the project (I cut out about 1500 LOC), and a decent decrease in the [...]

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Periodically, I find very entertaining search queries in my referrer log for this website. Yesterday produced another gem:
visual c express crack. What makes me go “huh?” about this is that the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 are totally free. Why on earth would you need a crack for it? Not [...]

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(Written at 35,000 feet somewhere between Minneapolis and Seattle)
I’ve been on vacation for most of this week, but I still found a few hours to work on iRooster. Typically, when I’ll be gone from Seattle for more than a week I will bring my Apple iBook and my Sony Vaio with me as [...]

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My sister, Amara, who is in her 30s, married, has a child, and a Ph.D. in Public Health wants a hair cut. She considers getting one that looks like Jessica Simpson, to which my mother replies:
“What? You’ll look like a slut and a floozy.”

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Welcome to Week 2 of the iRooster Status Update.

I have a couple things to report this week.
iRooster - Mac OS X
I released v2.1.1 Beta 3 yesterday. It features localizations in French, German, and Spanish. The German localization is complete, and I’m waiting on a little more text [...]

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Justin CJ asked me to post my travel schedule on my blog so he could keep track of it
I am heading back to Minneapolis this coming Wednesday, April 13 until Sunday.
Next up, I’ll be in Orlando from June 5 - 10 for Tech Ed 2005.
After that, I’ll be [...]

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I have a comment I posted on Slashdot last night that was moderated as:
* Funny
* Flamebait
* Underrated
That’s all I can really ask for in life, I suppose… Just a little amusement from Slashdot.

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