BOSS logic

Shotokan videos

I’ve been practicing Shotokan Karate for something like six months now. Years ago I had been fairly avid in Tae Kwon Do but let it slide somewhere between college and present day. Shotokan Karate has been wonderful — even our kids are enjoying it. Our local dojo’s sensei teaches the old-world way, bringing honor, respect [...]

Gnomedex is not Gnome

Was I the only person mildly disturbed to find Microsoft getting top billing at Gnomedex? It took me a little while to realize this is not a technology conference focused on Linux and Gnome. Once it finally clicked I was able to start breathing again.
Well, obviously, I didn’t attend although this would have been an [...]

Stop the aliens!

My oh my. Well, yes, of course it works.

Glitches in a new release, or…?

Recently there have been a lot of issues surfacing around Apple OS/X Tiger quality — typically application-specific problems that seem to be pointing toward a general down-turn in the usually fanatical consistency and robustness of Apple software.
Personally, I think it started just about when we first saw variant application windows — with no apparent rhyme [...]

MySQL and Tiger

OS/X Tiger Server comes with a reasonably current version of MySQL bundled and nicely integrated. Right now it seems to be about one minor release behind the latest from the MySQL site.
Unfortunately, if you simply fire up the MySQL administrative console, set a password and start MySQL — you won’t be able to do anything. [...]

The BOSS logic look & feel

A few people have mentioned that they like web look and feel of the weblog, but I have to defer credit to Apple. OS/X Tiger Server comes with a default instance of blojsom and a few Apple templates. While this template is not at all derived from the Apple templates, the overall look is.
I used [...]

The conversion to MoveableType

For the most part, it’s done. I still have some visual improvements to make over the next few days, but the weblog has moved from Blojsom to MoveableType. It was a bit of a painful transition but well worth it.

I still like the Blojsom weblog. Having it bundled with OS/X Server is absolutely wonderful and [...]

Turtles all the way down, of course…

“Turtles all the way down” comes from an anecdote that is reflected throughout our society, from our current (lack of) leadership down to “news” casts that are pure entertainment. We’re being lied to and we’ve come to expect it.

The moon is made of cheese

Google has apparently extended their map coverage to include the moon. Take a look. Be sure to zoom in. All the way in.

Safety net

I need to make sure that we have good backup coverage. I’ve been looking at several network appliances and seem to have settled on a LaCie Ethernet Disk mini. It has a 400 or 500GB capacity and direct ethernet NIC built in, exactly what I’m looking for, and it looks like it has well-rounded features [...]

Perfect key shortcut memory

I can never remember which keyboard shortcut I want, except for those few that I’m either using all the time or that are uniform throughout all of OS/X. Until now. A friend sent me a reference to KeyQue from Ergonis. This is just my favorite utility. It’s not quite free, but close enough at about [...]

Back from vacation…

I had thought there would be lots of time to write new blog entries while on vacation but, alas, it didn’t work out. We just returned from something of a whirlwind tour around Chicago — the planetarium, museums and Navy Pier in the downtown area kept us pretty well exhausted. That, and running up to [...]