I have had a complete and total computer meltdown today. I finally got my hands on the new version of MacOS X 10.5, “Leopard.” Since I’m overly-cautious, I decided to put it on my MacBook Pro since it has very little “unique” data that was easy to back up first. The update hosed it. […]
I was reading this article about a PHP developer’s love affair with Ruby, an increasingly popular scripting language. Like “love affair” implies, it was intense, passionate, difficult, but ultimately ended. Ruby’s greatest asset is that it was developed from the ground up to be strictly object-oriented (that’s way too huge a topic […]
So after I type my last entry about lack of feedback, etc., I received an overwhelmingly positive response from you, my dear readers. As would be my luck, the day after posting it, feeling genuinely appreciative and inspired to be more consistent with writing, I got sick. And I mean sick.
I woke up with, uh, […]
This is the new shirt from DespairWear, and I thought it was apropos:
That’s how I feel about this site right now. Of the handful of regular readers I have, a small percentage actually comment. Both the comment % and total traffic here is steadily diminishing, and there’s no really good reason why. I don’t […]
The video below was excerpted from the ABC News Video Podcast, so for those of you who subscribe to it (or watch ABC News in the States), you may have seen this:
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I just upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.3 from 2.2.1 (yes, I skipped 2.2.2). I kinda like things not to be broken, so I don’t run the “bleeding edge” builds (betas, RCs, etc.) but I did start using Subversion to manage the source tree so that I could do updates way easier. I […]
Ten Hut! This week’s military-themed edition is up at Nurse Ratched’s Place. Check out the best of the medical blogosphere this last week.
One of my recent projects was coming up with some audio/music to use for my daughter’s sleep. White noise is ideal to block out unwanted din, especially living here in Mexico in a closed off gated community (coto) where everybody insists on living their lives outside. You can’t really tell the neighborhood to “shut […]
I want it. Badly. Of course, to play it, I’d need an XBox 360.
I want that too.
This excerpt from an article entitled Hand Washing 101:
WebMD Medical Reference [?!!?]
Reviewed by Michael W. Smith, MD
Just how important is washing your hands? Well, imagine this scenario: Your younger sister uses the bathroom and does not wash her hands carefully. E. coli (a deadly bacterium) hitches a ride with her into the kitchen. She introduces […]