February 2009
I assume Vancouver must have some kind of store where one can purchase suitable plants for an apartment. I feel mine needs more green.
Does anyone know if Windows Vista Ultimate includes Media Centre? And if so if it supports cable boxes connected via FireWire?
Words cannot express the joy of discovering that the firewire output on my HD cable box actually gives me an mpeg2 HD stream.
Lava lamp acquisition: fail. Unexpected anti-fail: hair trimmer.
Listening to music in a language I don’t understand at all is fun. The lyrics could be totally aweful and it doesn’t destroy it at all.
USB hub: obtained. Firewire cable: obtained. Next: lava lamp.
Made it out of the house to burnaby. Holy cow there’s still snow on the ground here.
January 2009
PatrickEPG: now with “When else is this on?” http://static.patrick.geek.nz/screenshots/epg3.png
PDTable.js comes to the rescue again. One of my most reused bits of code I think.
Why is that I find a fairly large quantity of pleasing music through filler music played at the end of tv programs? Actually, I don’t care.
Holy cow, my MacBook Pro’s battery is claiming it’s current capacity is just 58% of original. After 4 load cycles.
Router/modem wall cabinet! http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/60137873
I think I will take @limburger2001’s lead and tomorrow head out to Burnaby and SHOP. Well buy a lava lamp, usb hub and a firewire cable.
ah, that’s enough iPhone development for tonight. First time playing with the accelerometer API. Rather easy to work with really.
Embracing Terminal.app tabs at last. Just for log files & the two sides of CVS (check-in + check-out to production) though.
The gadget tribes of technology →
Fannie Mae Worker Indicted For Malicious Script →
Google launches Measurement Lab to monitor the... →
Netgear's Coax-Ethernet Adapter up for pre-order →
444 fonts. I don’t think this enough.
I have 6 apps on my iPhone I’ve written myself in various states of completeness. Plus there’s one on the app store I don’t have!
Patrick’s Pro Tips #89: don’t have an NSLog() in your -touchesMoved:withEvent: method. It wastes precious CPU cycles like mad.
Finally.
The iTunes Plus section of the Terms of Sale has been revised to clarify that upgrades to iTunes Plus can now be made on a à la carte basis
Having a Moby kind of afternoon. That’s just the way I roll.
I have attained inbox zero at work. This never lasts though.
Playing Belle & Sebastian on the office stereo BECAUSE I CAN.
What Happened to iPhone Push Notifications? →
Jack: A port of Rack to JavaScript →
Don’t treat your customers like thieves →
If CS4 came on floppies... →
Installing 2.2.1 on my 3G went swimingly. Now… To upgrade the unlocked 2.5g as well?
How did I let myself forget just how much I love Belle & Sebastian?
Scrubs just had a very funky cover of the Seasame Street theme song. Seriously pleasing.
iPhone SDK 2.2.1 is downloading at 786KB/sec. DOWNLOAD FASTER DAMN IT.
Suburban Japan: 1 →
Having a “holy crap I know what I’m doing day”. Don’t worry, it won’t last.
Suburban Japan: 1 →
I really shouldn’t finish off this toblerone, but OHMY$DEITY it’s good.
I have a giant toblerone.
Ok Air NZ - I like the epass concept. Less liking your want for me to stick it to something. Why not make it a key chain instead?
How to Write a Resume That Will Land an Interview →
Ars Technica reboots →
THIEL SCS4 speaker review →
RIM CEO: Buggy OSes "new reality" of... →
New Law Will Require Camera Phones To... →
Considering releasing my EPG as open source. But the fact that the presentation would look crap in anything but Safari nightlies puts me off
watching national geographic HD megabridges. Mmm bridges.
Cool, bro’Town is on APTN (ch 111 on shaw vancouver). This pleases me ever so greatly)
Copying @Shaun_R and graphed my stats: http://tweetstats.com/graphs/thepatrick avg 4.7tpd, hit 308 so far this month, woah!