Yet another upgrade completed this morning. I’ve now moved all of our web sites to a shiny, not that new PowerMac server. Setting up PHP 5.2.2 and Zend 3.2.8 to get everything back online and healthy took about an hour (which makes me worry how much it’s going to break when and if I upgrade [...]
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Quicksilver is a powerful tool and, perhaps surprisingly, not just for power-users. While everyone seems to agree on that point, it’s also true that almost everyone has the same initial impression: “This looks really cool, but I just don’t understand how it will make my life better.” To say Quicksilver is a bit obfuscated is [...]
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Well, it’s here. The new MacBook Pro features a faster 800Mgz front side bus, up to 4GB of RAM, 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processors and 802.11n wireless (which is a lot faster than 802.11g, not to mention the built in 1000Base-T gigabit ethernet port). And to top it off, the new display technology goes [...]
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A few decades ago, the term “solid-state” meant the replacement of technology such as vacuum tubes with transistors. It was space age. It also signaled the beginning of a new era in which computers didn’t require an entire city block and a substantial portion of the power grid to operate (not to mention interns pushing [...]
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This is a really cool application. I’ve been exploring ways to maintain focus and get things done more effectively. Think helps maintain that focus: At this very moment, applications are fighting for your attention. Between chat windows, Finder windows, Web browser windows, and everything else, it’s amazing any of us can concentrate at all. As [...]
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Now this article on the saga of spam prevention and, ultimately, an introduction to Postini and Spam-X may well be enlightening. I’m going to have to look into using Spam-X services here. At just a few dollars a month, this may well be the wave of the future — fully outsourced, firewall-like spam filtering.
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I stumbled on this excellent article providing a good summary of OS/X applications for writers. In my never-ending search for better writing tools my eye has started to wander from CopyWrite. My only real gripe with CopyWrite is its inability to order documents into a sequence, though this is arguably not something to focus on [...]
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According to a recently disclosed report offered up by the Senate Intelligence Committee, everything that has gone wrong in Iraq — insurgency, economic chaos, the rise of Al-Qaeda — was anticipated by the CIA in 2003 and Bush knew it. Bush’s claim that he is a credible messenger because he reads the intelligence once again [...]
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One of the judges of a major photography contest writes at great length about the things he looks for in a competition winner. A very interesting read if you’re into photography, or just curious how these things are judged. The advice stands alone as well, making good tips on how to take some great photographs.
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This is just outstanding. Take the British to come up with something like this… we American’s don’t have the sense of humor for it. I’m a bit surprised Apple would bother with a lawsuit over the advertisements though — somehow, I don’t think this crosses that fussy line. Consumers just aren’t going to be confused [...]
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This looks like an intriguing little toy from Stealth Computer. It’s about the same size as the Mac Mini, but sufficiently souped up to be powerful enough to use for some serious work. It’s got a Core 2 Duo processor, a plethora of input/output options, 160 GB hard disk and one gigabyte of RAM. All [...]
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Within mere hours of of Kenya Airways Flight 507 going down, the world knew about it. My own dashboard showed me an alarmingly large red circle in my Buzztracker, noting a major event of world news. It’s truly amazing that we’ve reached a level of technology and information sharing that we have a near consensus-awareness [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
