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 [...]
Entries from April 2005
Tiger
April 30th, 2005 · No Comments
Tags: iRooster
Quitting Smoking
April 27th, 2005 · 1 Comment
May 14 2005.
Tags: Personal Life
You Don’t Apologize For Being Right
April 25th, 2005 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Zoon Politikon
iRooster Weekly Update
April 24th, 2005 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: iRooster
What the…
April 21st, 2005 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Developer Tools
iRooster Status Update
April 19th, 2005 · No Comments
(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 [...]
Tags: iRooster
Jessica Simpson
April 14th, 2005 · No Comments
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.”
Tags: Random Funniness
iRooster Status Update
April 10th, 2005 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: iRooster
Minneapolis, Doncha Know
April 10th, 2005 · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: Personal Life
Slashdorks
April 9th, 2005 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Technology