Originally posted 2007-09-28 19:03:53 Apple fixed my MacBook Pro for free. They replaced the surface of the laptop–the part that surrounds the keyboard. No more random reboots. The IT guy from work temporarily misplaced...

Originally posted 2007-09-13 17:48:17 I bought my first Mac in 2004: an iBook G4. Before then, I called Macs

Originally posted 2007-09-11 13:05:45 Day three started with Bruce Tate, Ruby, and Rails. Tate isn’t entertaining nor dynamic (a la Scott Davis), but his presentation skills suffice and his material is excellent. Leading Java...

Originally posted 2007-09-02 16:38:03 I spent the morning of Day Two with David Geary, JSF, Seam, Facelets and Ajax4jsf. The session came in two parts, and I could have stayed for a part three...

Originally posted 2007-08-25 02:59:27 I’m at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Orlando, Florida, at No Fluff Just Stuff. Both an offsite management work meeting all morning and an accident on I-4 delayed my...

Originally posted 2007-08-25 02:23:12 From the what-will-they-think-of-next department, here’s an external hard drive designed to house your deleted files. It’s shaped like a trash can and sports the recycling logo, so it attempts to...

Originally posted 2007-08-21 18:05:02 I just released version 0.2 of Safe, the command-line password management program I’ve been using. This is the first public release, and it’s still alpha, but I’d love feedback. I’m...

Originally posted 2007-08-21 17:17:22 Last year I built a computer with parts ordered from newegg.com. Over time, and because of its faster processor, larger hard drives, and buckets more memory, my home-built computer has...

Originally posted 2007-08-06 17:40:17 My parents spent the past three years Down Under doing missionary work. They lived in Melbourne, halfway around the world from us in Florida, USA. Email shortened the distance and...

Originally posted 2007-05-15 14:02:20 Last Sunday–Mother’s Day in the United States–my wife’s purse disappeared. Actually, someone put a crowbar through the passenger window of her van as it sat in our church parking lot...