January 2008
Migrating other people’s code in to your own framework is fun. Wait, what?
ruby has really taken the place in my heart as scripting language of choice when bash won’t do. using activerecord is just pleasingerific.
Thinking I really need SMS (or similar) to deploy software to windows machines in the office without interacting with them directly.
Another day another few bugs squashed and serial numbers recorded. Fun? Not really.
It’s flickr time!
He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life — Homer Simpson.
O2 upping allowances on iPhone plan? Sounds good to me
Is it time to implement another currency in our commerce system? Why, yes, it is. How did you know?
Praise jeebus!
Holy crap, you can spend a _lot_ of money on tripods. Who knew?
@tychoish: With real player.
Typing rm instead of mv does not do the same thing. d’oh. Good thing it was only the hourly backups of things we have daily backups for…
Aw, I only used 17MB through EDGE on my iPhone in January. Must try harder next month.\
The new (as in, just arrived on my desk) Apple wireless keyboard feels really small. I like it, I think.
Migrating 250GB from old AirDisk to new 750GB one.
@casablanca: asleep at 2pm? how did you manage that?!
I now own ~4TB of storage. This doesn’t seem like enough
Ok, I know some of my followers live in/around London… tell me, what’s something fun and exciting to do in London tomorrow?
@kitykity: The first option it gave to me sounded really low quality, the second worked out better.
@jayfresh: That sounds much more fun than Whitton.
Oh poop, I just destroyed the return key on my bluetooth keyboard. To the apple store to order a new keyboard…
@jayfresh: good thing it’s not my company webmail. then I’d have to fix it, and bah to that!
Tomorrow is pay day… CoD4 time?
You can’t whois .nz domains outside .nz. This makes me want to throw things at the idiot who decided that.
I’m revisiting Paul Simon’s Surprise, and finding I like the album a lot more now. I wonder why that is?
Launching DW: “The licencing subsystem has failed catastrophically. You must reinstall or call customer support.” The rest of CS3 is fine…
Throat feels a little better today, I’ve only had to drink 500ml of water so far!
@gruber: http://m.ac.nz/justupdate/ is a twitter client for iPhone etc. purely for posting updates.
I could kill for some ice cream.
@jayfresh: that’s terrible… perhaps we should start a campaign?
How have I ended up with 8 unwatched episodes of CSI on my appletv? Time to fix that.
Is it possible to buy just Entourage 2008? Have no use for the rest of Office, just need speed…
@rands: please send this memo to all software developers.
Nearly at work. Not sure if I can cope with a whole day, but I can at least take everyone else down with me in the process.
I really wish you could buy liquid medicine in “no-children-in-this-house” versions that didn’t have adult proof lids on the flaming things.
@dnorman: have you tried iCab?
@dnorman: such a computer can connect to the Internet!