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Strange Days in October. aka I Wish it were a Wednesday Already.

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random wednesday

  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. New Home Office Chair thanks to @mrsnickhodge and ikea
  4. star­tup Gen­eral Melchett, XPS1330, MacBookPro
  5. 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”
  6. Oh, final­ists announced for AIWA / WA Web Awards. No other states organ­ise a com­munity (not crowd) like WA in a @mpesce sense.
  7. 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.
  8. Send emails about Steveb in Aus­tralia and twit­ter.
  9. But more gigs from inter­node, just in case I run out down­load­ing stuff through the month.
  10. Wish­ing I was in Seattle so I could Brick­Con/Geekout with the Arri­go­nauts. Way bet­ter than a Renais­sance Faire.
  11. 80s music in the back­ground. I now own the license for 1204 tracks.
  12. Liam passed his L-plates this morn­ing. There goes one of the cars.
  13. 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.
  14. Noodle in Pho­toshop. The cre­ation of “polaroid” style pic­tures is so naff and easy.
  15. Delete Boot­camp Vista par­ti­tion, copy down openSUSE 11.0 DVD ISO onto Mac. See how this install goes… if al all…
  16. 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.
  17. Listen­ing to The Beach Boys, ste­reo ver­sion of Pet Sounds.
  18. 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?
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Can build Iron­Ruby using the rake command.
  22. 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

Written by Nick Hodge

October 1st, 2008 at 4:50 pm

Posted in random,wednesday

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