I’ve got another 5 day weekend coming up ahead. Since Patty is visiting, I’ve taken the next 3 days off so that Staci, Patty, Nicholas, Ian, and I have time to hang out. It’s been a blast to have her here again, and it’s made me more aware of how weird it is to NOT […]
Cuil is a new search engine on the block, trying to displace Google from the top of the search heap. They say their index is larger than Google’s, as if size is THAT important, and was launched by former Google employees. Rather than trying to mimic Google’s method of ranking the quantity and quality of
I didn’t miss the boat on Dr. Horrible, I just haven’t gotten around to blogging about it. If you missed it when it was free, you can get all 3 episodes on iTunes for just 4 dollars. You can’t beat that deal for your entertainment dollar. I highly recommend it, if you like any combination
Nicholas has started sleeping through the night, as of last week, and while it hasn’t been every single night yet, its happened more often than not. I’m glad for Staci, since she’s not a night owl like me, staying up past 10 or 10:30 was harder on her. This also means I’ve found some time
The following will list all the symbolic links pointing to a file within the same directory. find /my/dir -lname my_linked_dir -maxdepth 1 You could search the whole but it could take some time: find / -lname my_linked_dir
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The anti-immigrant sentiment of the mid 90s, as the Republicans were in ascension, motivated our family to stop procrastinating and become U.S. citizens. History is repeating itself again. Number of Mexicans gaining citizenship soars in 2007 – Los Angeles Times The number of Mexican-born immigrants who became U.S. citizens swelled by nearly 50% last year
One of the first things I’ve noticed as a new father is how sensitive I am again to time passing. After graduating college, my has not been measured in discrete chunks of time like semesters, nor have there been regular events like summer/fall/spring breaks to look forward to as a break in my schedule. Time
I’m meaining to blog about my recent upgrade to Verizon FIOS + Tivo HD at home. The overall conclusion – much better picture quality, and now I don’t have to watch HD content live. But the following post has a great summary of how a TiVoO DVR is more functional than the vanilla DVR everyone
This is something we’re trying to help everyone at work realize. I think we’ve known this all along, clients don’t ever fully understand wireframes. Plus, its more fun, and I think productive, to start building something that works early, gets your head out of the clouds and grounded in reality. A List Apart: Articles: Sketching