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Entries from February 2006

Elize and More Pictures

February 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Elize got married yesterday in a very-sudden fashion. It was a small ceremony; not more than 15-20 people. I hadn’t seen a few of the people there in years, literally. It was great to see Elize’s parents again, along with NJ and Melissa.
I posted pictures on my gallery site.
I also dug [...]

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Tags: Personal Life

Stupid Issue with OCUnit

February 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I hit an issue with OCUnit the other day when I was trying to get a project of mine working correctly with it. The issue was that using the macro STAssertEqualObjects anywhere would cause the following build error:
error: parse error before ‘typeof’
After a whole lot of digging, I finally figured out [...]

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Tags: Developer Tools

Buying a Phone

February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments

So, first off, I just wanted to say that I’m incredibly psyched about the Origami Project, whatever it turns out to be I sent mail to Scoble earlier today after he hyped it on his blog to tell him how psyched I was.
As the subject promised, though, this is the episode where [...]

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Tags: Technology

Throwing Up

February 20th, 2006 · No Comments

“We would make people literally throw up if they had to listen to us.”
You know you’ve crossed that certain irritating cuteness factor when…

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Tags: Personal Life

I am a Terrible Friend

February 20th, 2006 · No Comments

It took me over a month to figure out that a friend of mine (who I dated briefly last year) has been pissed at me enough for five weeks now to not be willing to speak to me anymore. Yeah, I’m a fuckhead. Yeah, I’ve been way too busy for my own health or sanity. [...]

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Tags: Personal Life

Jacktracking: The Post-Modern Timewaster

February 14th, 2006 · No Comments

GridSkipper introduced a new service with the beginning of 24 Day 5 last month, the Jacktracker.
The Jacktracker features:
Insightful commentary (“Jack is dead. No he’s not. Frank Flynn = Jack Bauer. Frank drills oil, as well as Diane Huxley.”),
Useful data points (Hard Perimeters in Place: 0; Hard Perimeter Breaches: 1; [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous