Monthly Archives: June 2005

ezRETS

I normally try to avoid posting about work, as that way often leads to being fired or other unpleasentness. However, I think its okay in this case.
I’m really excited about our beta release of ezRETS an ODBC driver for RETS data sources. This has been one of the coolest projects I’ve worked on [...]

Trip to Museum of Science and Industry, Part II: Game On

Last Friday, Sarah and I went to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry to see the Body Worlds and Game On exhibits. Read about Body Worlds in Part I.

One of the other things that drew us to the museum was the Game On exhibit. Unfortunately, you couldn’t take pictures with a flash [...]

Small wordpress buglet

Let’s say you’re not sending referer headers somehow, such as setting network.http.sendRefererHeader to 0 in Firefox. Then let’s say you start work on writing a blog post. With this setup, clicking on the Save and Continue Editing button will give you a nice fat blank screen. Luckily, your post is saved, but [...]

Today’s phrase that should die

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This has to be one of the dumbest redundant phrases I’ve heard in awhile. There has to be a better way to communicate what people are trying to communicate when they use this phrase. Its sounds like something a 3rd grader would say.
In any case, this phrase must DIE. [...]

Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, “I drank what?”

Via Jess:
Which OS are You?
Which File Extension are You?
You know, I don’t try to answer the questions in a way to get these results, it just happens.

Trip to Museum of Science and Industry, Part I: Body Worlds

Last Friday, Sarah and I went to Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry to see the Body Worlds and Game On exhibits. Read about Game On in Part II

Body Worlds was pretty interesting. There have been some pretty in-depth discussions about Body Worlds on some of the mailing lists I’m on. There [...]

Bud’s Reborn?


e-mail *grumble grumble* e-mail

In the Tempo section of the Chicago Tribune was a story titled “How e-mail is transforming our behavior.” It was a good article, and I’ll get to it in a minute, but first a gripe.
I went looking for this article so I could provide a link to it. Naturally, I went to the [...]