It turns out my side job playing baseball at Azusa Pacific University has panned out and I’m leaving my career in the technology industry to play baseball for the Oakland A’s. See ya in the dugout!
Story Here. You gotta love getting Google Alerts on your own name.
Here’s my hard and fast version of how to do estimates if someone needs a quick estimate and that is looking for a ballpark figure.
If they don’t like it or think it’s too high then tell them they have to give you more details but with what little you have it’s too risky to shave an estimate with so little details and that you value an ongoing collaborative relationship more than a line drawn in the sand based on too little information. After all, you signed the Agile Manifesto, right?
“Customer collaboration over contract negotiation”
Just to make it official, I recently launched 802.11maps.com a site that maps over 30,000 WiFi hot spots in the US on Google maps. Just enter your address or the address where you are going to be and it’ll show you all of the known hot spots around you. We have hot spot listings from over 17 sources and will keep adding more sites as we become aware of them. We will be adding more features to add your own spots, comment on spots, post pictures, etc.
While the creation of the database was the part of this system the took the longest, the interesting part, technically speaking, was that this was my first application built on Ruby on Rails, as well as the first site I’ve deployed on my own Linux server. So there was a lot of technical ramp-ups to get through but it was fun to figure out how to put everything together.
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OK, bigger hard drive, and YouTube integration, great, I can watch grainy user-submitted videos on my 63? 1080p display. Thanks, but no thanks, I’m still underwhelmed with this product. As soon as I can stream, buy and download HD content I’m in. A DVR would be nice too. Can’t you guys just buy elgato for Pete’s sake and get it over with?
P.S. Steve Jobs at D5 mentioned that Apple has 3 businesses (Mac, iPod and iPhone) and 1 hobby and the hobby is Apple TV. When you decide to get serious about it and treat it like a business let me know.
Have you been seeing these stupid ads all over the internet like I have?
Why are these women dancing? And why are they always different sets of black women that are dancing? Are they trying to appeal to a black demographic? Are they happy that Don Imus is off the air? And when they realized they are being watched they look surprised or embarrassed. Why? Are they LowerMyBills.com workers that are supposed to be busy processing your loan applications instead of dancing?
Anyways, NY Times has an article about their annoying advertisements, though not about this specific set of ads. Are these the same guys that used to have the ads with the bouncing pig abdomens too?
Fascinating map of where the disparity of single men and women in various regions of the US.
I often want to open an admin-level command prompt, like a “sudo” in linux, and it’s a distraction to have to move my hands off the keyboard to go through the elevation contortions. So I was stoked to find a keyboard shortcut for launching an elevated process. Simply press Ctrl+Shift+Enter from the search bar on the start menu with a selected application, and that triggers elevation. For example, to launch an elevated command prompt, simply press the Win key; type cmd; press Ctrl+Shift+Enter; and then hit Alt+C to confirm the elevation prompt.
I’ve started a tumblog for fun. I’ll be posting any quirky, wierd, fun images or videos, etc instead of posting it to my blog here. Check it out here.
If you installed Windows Vista over an existing operating system your old operating system files are stored in “windows.old” so your Vista OS can be installed in a fresh, brand-spanking new folder. If you try to delete your old operating system files you may be prompted to allow it to happen. Even with Administrator privileges, this attempt may fail.
The fool-proof way to remove old, unwanted files and old operating system installations is to use “Disk Cleanup”. Press on the Windows Pearl (formerly called the “Start” button) and type “disk clean” in the search box and press Enter. The disk cleanup tool will detect any windows.old folders and offer to remove them for you.
With a continuous flow of cool Beryl demo videos floating around the net Beryl is continually shaming Windows and OS X WRT window management. It’s surprising that Linux, an OS not known for its desktop capabilities, is what’s being used to shame these two operating system vendors.
So with Vista out we can count on not seeing anything like this in Windows for a while now. It would have to be some service pack or 3rd party add-on to enhance Vista’s window management in this way.
It’ll be interesting to see if the soon-to-be-released OS X “Leopard” has anything like this to match or surpass Beryl. If not it will be a let-down either way.
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