Nintendo release the Wii News Channel today and I must say – it rocks! I won’t be using the Wii News Channel to get my news, but as a tool to teach children geography and what is going on in their world, this is fantastic. First off, the news channels presents news like any other… Continue reading Wii News Channel
Author: Steve Riggins
Great days at work are fun
My job has been hectic for over a year, with schedules missed, money tight, etc. Things are coming to a head, one way or the other, but the work remains interesting and exciting. Today, I took a list of must-have fixes and got my two done. Not only that, but in the process, sped movie… Continue reading Great days at work are fun
Benefits of snow
While it sucks eating soup and left overs, I can tell you that I love how quiet my neighborhood is. Not a peep outside, no road noise, nothing. Its amazing how noisy the city is with just background noise – And I live in the burbs! I’m staying in – Watching the video of all… Continue reading Benefits of snow
Snow!
I woke up to over 2 inches of snow. I guess I won’t be going to the chiropractor today, what a mess, but a beautiful mess! Pictures
The coolest iPhone hack idea
I think you should be able to lay your middle finger vertically on the iPhone’s screen to reboot it. rofl
A nice surprise from friends
Charles and Janet returned from MacWorld and as a thanks for taxi servies they got me this: USB 2.0 drive adaptor How cool is that? I really appreciate it and it works great! My external laptop drives enclosure is being repaired so I had not been able to backup to it for a couple of… Continue reading A nice surprise from friends
FIOS comes to apartments
Elizabeth is getting FIOS next week! Her apartment complex has opted in and every unit is getting installed, whether the individual renter pays for it or not. Every unit gets a ONT and UPS. Awesome!
My Congressman, David Wu, talks Klingons
haha my Congressman is funny. Click more for video.
Wii story
So I was at Fred Myers buying Madden, two gamer geeks come up “Do you have any wiis?” “no” “Did you get any thurs?” “No, but we have 4 ps3s, nobody wants those” “We don’t want a damn ps3, we want a wii”
My lastest port triggering settings for iChat
I thought I had posted these, but I guess not!
Bought Aperture and preordered an Airport Extreme
So Aperture is happily importing my iPhoto library in the background. I’ll mess with it next week, after this milestone release, but now I can start in earnest with the export SDK on BHE. The Airport Extreme will be here in February or March sometime. All of you PMUG members be sure to take advantage… Continue reading Bought Aperture and preordered an Airport Extreme
Allstate.com’s poor judgement on email policy
I have insurance through Allstate. A month ago I used their website to look at my account information and they had to snail mail me a PAK (Personal Authorization Key) for security purposes. Thats fine. I get the PAK but due to holidays, etc I don’t use it. Yesterday I get an email from Allstate… Continue reading Allstate.com’s poor judgement on email policy
P-Nuttles!
Blast from the past – Found P-Nuttles at the store today. I think I used to sell these as a kid for school trips, etc. Its been decades.
TextMate and regular expressions
I’ve been trying to learn regular expressions for years, but never had a good use for them, because the tools that used them were so obscure. Now with TextMate, I have plenty of uses. In the blogging bundle, the preferences format was: Blog Name http://www.blogurl.com/ The regular expression for parsing that was: ^(.+?)\s+(https?:\/\/\.+) I’ll break… Continue reading TextMate and regular expressions
Cancelled my Apple order
I cancelled my order for AppleTV and Airport Extreme .n. I’ll pick up an AE at The Mac Store when they are in (am going to preorder today) and with my 1080i TV, I just can’t see the 720p of AppleTV working well with my cruddy scaler. So I’ll pick up Aperture instead and get… Continue reading Cancelled my Apple order
Parallels performance tip
If you use Parallels and notice your machine horribly slow, you might want to try changing Parallels virtual memory cache policy. Change it to optimize for Mac OS X and see how things behave:
Ruby is kinda nice
I’ve been forced to learn Ruby as a side effect of learning TextMate. While posting to blogs, I often get timeouts because my ISP is slow when it comes to processing XMLRPC via perl. So I dug around and found that TextMate’s XMLRPC is just a standard Ruby class. On top of that, that class… Continue reading Ruby is kinda nice
Remember to run Apple’s Broadband Tuner from time to time
I ran my usual performance test to UC Santa Cruz and was only getting 10 of the 15 MB/s I should be getting on FIOS. So I installed the Apple Broadband Tuner and whoopee, immediately up to 15MB/s. I guess I never ran this while using Ethernet, or installing OS X Updates negates these settings.… Continue reading Remember to run Apple’s Broadband Tuner from time to time
Cisco legal beagles blog about iPhone trademark
Interesting
Mac in my top
A parody of SNL’s “Dick in a box” made for the Mac geeks out there: Mac in my top Thanks Bert!