Author: Steve Riggins

I spent the last 2 weeks on Vancouver Island in the wonderful cabin of my colleague John and his wife Cordelia. I ate regular meals every day and worked 12-16 hour days. Today was our big demo to our funders in NY and apparently it went very well. A lot of code was written in… Continue reading I’m home!

So let’s review: Tree falls into the house Move 4 doors down into smaller place in 4 days Travel to NY and Canada with a flu Have fever for 5 days Printer stops printing, buy a new one Kick power cord on UPS and blow a circuit, buy a new one Try backing up main… Continue reading Goodbye, January 2006!

So my printer, Canon i560 survived the tree and printed ok, then gave up the ghost yesterday. Am guessing some crap was inside the machine and got sucked into the print head. Went through a set of inks cleaning to no avail. So rather than spend $50 for a new print head (+shipping) I bought… Continue reading January can be over any day now

I ran my standard Vonage test today, rsyncing a large file up to my website while talking to Matt on the phone. For the first time, with no Quality of Service turned on, I was able to talk clearly and upload a file at around 213KB/s! Very, very nice.

I had Verizon fiber optic internet installed today. here are some tests. My download from my website was slower, it never got above 500K/s, whereas comcast would spike to 700K/s for awhile. I wonder if this is a pathing issue to the server. The speakeasy tests were all much better on FIOS, and no packet… Continue reading FIOS Installed today!

Lookie!

I went to my cabinet, still sick to find soup in a cups stocked up. No idea when you did this, but thank you 🙂 She really is special to me!

At least 15 pines and firs are being felled this week. I guess the owners got the message. I’ll have pics up later, when I am not so feverish. Is pretty cool watching these guys work though. By the way, if you come home and have white ribbon around your trees, that means they are… Continue reading Bye bye, trees

I missed Lucien’s birthday. What a nice guy. Always enjoy your company and running into you at Mac events or even the cheesecake factory 🙂 Happy Birthday!

Gotta love Apple. 24 hours after she ditched MSN for .mac and iLife’06 (Yes she has it and I don’t, I’m in Canada!) she has already made her first podcast, with images, thanks to GarageBand and .Mac. Check it out

All moved in! Thanks to Julie and Sandy, we’re all moved in to the new place. It is definitely smaller, sigh, but will have to do for now. The movers took 4 hours to move most of my stuff (not counting what we did on New Years) and then with Julie’s truck, we packed up… Continue reading All Moved In!

Well it has been a crazy week as you all know. Here is where things stand: I’ve been working on Sophie at nights, as I have a demo this weekend to produce The move happens tomorrow. The landlord’s insurance is going to pay for it! I have taken over BetterHTMLExport, a fantastic iPhoto plugin originally… Continue reading Update!

Thanks to Lucien who tivoed the news, we have video of the event! Watch (35 megabytes)

Well the G5 and Mac displays survived. I have not tested the PC yet. Due to the awesome packing skills of everyone I was able to find some receipts I had set out on the table. I synced the G5 to the laptop and will deal with the rental situation tomorrow. Thank you everyone who… Continue reading Update