Archive for April, 2006
I made it back from Orlando Friday. I had a really good week at the PHP conference. I think I learned quite a bit. I am not going to talk about tech here anymore, so no details… On Saturday Rachel and I went to her friend’s house. I had the greatest time. Early in the evening [ READ MORE ]
Counting Crows announced their 2006 summer tour recently and they are hitting Portland pretty early on. It’s a Wednesday night, we’ll see if we decide to go. Just for fun I wanted to see if they were going to be in KC the week we are there this summer and no such luck. They play a [ READ MORE ]
I was reading over ESPN’s baseball headlines this morning and found the combination of these two funny: Pujols ties Helton for second fastest to 1,000 hits and Rockies’ Helton hospitalized with stomach pains. [ READ MORE ]
It’s a bit of a holiday here in Eugene today. A true celebration. [ READ MORE ]
I upgraded my site today to the latest version of Wordpress, revision 3708, today and added the new widgets plugins from the guys at Automattic. After adding the plugins, I had to then upgrade to a theme that supported plugins. K2 fit the bill, but I had to pull the latest from SVN to take [ READ MORE ]
I spent a good portion of the night working on Swap-bot. I added a few new features tonight. On a related note, I apparently have the best job in America. [ READ MORE ]
Google Calendar is open. I just logged in with my gmail account and it work. It looks decent, but I doubt I will use it too much. We’ll see… [ READ MORE ]
Lots of excitement over at swap-bot yesterday. First, the server went offline and caused the database to fall into an unstable state. It’s all fixed now, but it caused a tense 90 minutes – most of which were in the middle of Lost. The real excitement, though, is that we topped 4,000 pageviews yesterday. [ READ MORE ]
Apple just announced that in their next major OS release you will be able to run Windows natively. That’s kind of cool, but the reason I have a Mac is for the operating system, not really the hardware, so I don’t imagine I’ll be doing too much Windows on my Intel Mac (when I get [ READ MORE ]
For about as long as I have been alive, my dad and a neighbor from LA, Jerry, have participated in their own baseball bet. Not Pete Rose style, this bet consists of each picking two “winners” and two “losers” from each league. They then get a point for each win by a winner and a [ READ MORE ]