Archive for December, 2006
« Previous EntriesPersonal Resolutions for 2007
Saturday, December 30th, 2006Take family back to Japan, this time getting out of Tokyo (geek out in Blade Runner 2007 not 2019)
Weigh less in December 2007 vs now (eat better)
Refind my geek roots
Write more interesting, technical articles on this blog (become less boring)
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More medical stories
Creativity++
ROI on MBA
1968
Movie: Kurt Cobain About a Son.
Moore’s Law and Compounding Interest
Sunday, December 24th, 2006In deploying the small Ruby on Rails application on an old Dell 8200 running Debian-sarge, I decided to see how the application would perform under load.
Apache comes with a great little application meekly called ab. ab is a small command-line tool that slashdots your web application, and gives you a nice measure (in pages per [...]
Frankinstall Tweaking Ruby Mongrels
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006What a fun few days! I reported earlier I was in the midst of Ruby on Rails. The small project is coming along fine. Even though I could quickly build in Python or PHP, its time to learn and immerse myself in a new language - and more importantly, a new platform.
This platform is more [...]
Parallels Dimension
Friday, December 22nd, 2006Rarely does software become easier to use, dramatically change, add features and gets faster. Parallels rocks.
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Gadget Geek Journey; Desintation 2: Vista Sidebar Gadget
Parallels Idleness
PROCEDURE DIVISION. RUN END_OF_WEEK. Stop Run.
foreach { blogpost in blogpoststhisweek } closeloop;
Vista RC1 OK on Parallels 1896.2 (and Acrobat 
Climb every Mountain
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006Spent the last week and this week on a personal Ruby on Rails project. This involves subversion (as a version management system), mongrel, capistrano, ftp, postgresql, some smarts with DNS, exim and a two-day complete re-install of Debian. That re-install was not expected.
Unix has this wonderful and powerful concept: the root user knows what they [...]
Enron, the Emails
Thursday, December 14th, 2006Watched "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" last night.
The documentary was not as in-depth as the book: detailing the "mark to market" and "off-balance sheet entities" created by the management of Enron. The impact of the resulting US Law named Sarbanes-Oxley made financial auditors more responsible and powerful within organisations; and personally changed [...]
Interesting, award winning movie online.
Sunday, December 10th, 2006Amazing what you can see online these days.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Kings of an Older Generation
Microsoft has a sense of English Humour
Adobe Mars and Print-ready PDFs
Thursday, December 7th, 2006Random question popped into my head whilst having a shower: does Adobe Mars, the new project to represent PDF as a packaged XML format, support PDF's strong print/prepress heritage.
Things like CMYK, colorspaces, high-dpi images, Postscript fonts, trapping settings (overprint/knockout) and the Crop/Bleed boxes. All those high-tech printing things.
The short answer is yes.
(testing process: InDesign document, [...]
XML Goo-i-ness Inside
Thursday, December 7th, 2006Microsoft pre-released their XAML-in-the-browser technology, WPF/e earlier this week. XAML inside.
XAML "smells" like the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). DOM-inside-a-DOM, Declarative animation, 2D graphics. XAML maybe not SVG, but it certainly tips its hat to SVG.
Adobe today pre-released their XML-in-a-PDF technology, Mars, for Acrobat 8. Essentially, Mars as a technology is presently delivered as [...]
Audio Therapy
Thursday, December 7th, 2006Take a look at Neil Finn's Celebrity Playlist on iTunes.
Purchase/Buy as a gift the Farewell to the World 10 Years Anniversary CD or DVD.
Listen, and think of Paul Hester. What a waste of talent. Shed a tear. Then donate to BeyondBlue.
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Steve Jobs. [...]
