- Experimenting with visitmix.com lab’s Gestalt
- Saint Shenanigans
- Speed, Quality, Cheap. Pick any Two.
- State of Software Design in NSW HSC
- It is not the Apple Tablet, it is the Store
- Facial Update
- Why the Quietness?
- What does Transparency mean to me?
- The long search for the perfect WPF Twitter Client. Over.
- #auteched week begin
- Twenty Years Ago Today
- Where is Nick?
- Sanity Prevails
- 28 Weeks. 18 Weeks Down
- New Windows Home Server
- Japan Photo
- Microsoft and Web 2.0 Stuff
- Bing Box on your Website or Blog
- New.CloudApp();
- Fifth Barcamp Sydney, Saturday June 27th
Strange Days in October. aka I Wish it were a Wednesday Already.
By Nick Hodge | October 1, 2008
- Head spins, I cannot safely drive a motor vehicle, forklift or other like heavy machinery. I’ll blog my day as a set of mutable strings (rather than microblog / twitter immutable strings)
- Adobe person says some random stuff about Flash on the iPhone, the world goes mad and I wonder how long said employee remains employed before he gets a stern talking-to from Adobe legal.
- New Home Office Chair thanks to @mrsnickhodge and ikea
- startup General Melchett, XPS1330, MacBookPro
- Update MacBook Pro’s MacOS X 10.5.x and MacOffice. twice. Decide to swap Vista x32 with Linux for Edge of the Web as I need to show off some Mono/cross platform CLR/DLR stuff. Along with other “secret stuff #2”
- Oh, finalists announced for AIWA / WA Web Awards. No other states organise a community (not crowd) like WA in a @mpesce sense.
- look at and install secret stuff #1, secret stuff #2 and secret stuff #3. Ask about secret stuff #4 and register for secret stuff #5. Dog fooding is fun. Keeping it all a secret until the right date is tough. This is definitely not your father’s Microsoft.
- Send emails about Steveb in Australia and twitter.
- But more gigs from internode, just in case I run out downloading stuff through the month.
- Wishing I was in Seattle so I could BrickCon/Geekout with the Arrigonauts. Way better than a Renaissance Faire.
- 80s music in the background. I now own the license for 1204 tracks.
- Liam passed his L-plates this morning. There goes one of the cars.
- Successfully msbuild IronPython 2.0 Build from Codeplex from sources using Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 rather than Visual Studio 2008.
- Noodle in Photoshop. The creation of “polaroid” style pictures is so naff and easy.
- Delete Bootcamp Vista partition, copy down openSUSE 11.0 DVD ISO onto Mac. See how this install goes… if al all…
- F#. I actually fell asleep thinking “having x and y, let them be a function of x * y”. Functional languages for the win. Oh, and a quick one-liner post generates 50% more traffic than an IronRuby post.
- Listening to The Beach Boys, stereo version of Pet Sounds.
- Crikey is in. Time for a cuppa and 50% of my daily allocation of biscuits. “Walnuts [McCain] and the Warrior Princess” LOL. Beware the Ides of October/Surprise. Giuliani as late substitution VP?
- Screens from left to right. MacBook Pro, installing OpenSUSE. Middle: RDP into a RAS’d Vista x64 on Dell XPS running Apple iTunes and Outlook 2007. Right: Quadcore running development stuff and LiveWriter.
- OpenSUSE not happy at GRUB… hmmm, that’s going to be interesting. Oh, search comes to the rescue. Opting to De-bootcamp the MacBook Pro and install into an image file.
- Can build IronRuby using the rake command.
- OpenSUSE install now much faster. KDE vs. Gnome. Why does that freakin’ matter. Cmon Linux people. Working, file Mac away for another week. Shower time to wash that Mac and Linux outta my hair
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October 1st, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Ah, BrickCon, how I wish I could go to thee!
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Adobe person about Flash on iPhone most probably read it on Slashdot.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
[…] I have really only succeeded on #1 #3 and #4. On the home front, I spent many more days not travelling and working from home. […]