Flying to Australia from the US is not a pleasant experience. It takes a long time. For me, it was a five-hour flight from Atlanta to San Francisco, then a fourteen-hour flight from San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand, then another five-hour flight from Auckland to Adelaide, South Australia. Including …
Stack Overflow
There is a new web site for software developers to ask questions and get answers: Stack Overflow.
I've been one of the site's beta testers for the past month, and I've been impressed with the quality of the information available on the site. Of course, there are plenty of a-holes …
Troubleshooting the MacBook Air SuperDrive
My wife has a MacBook Air. One of the things that makes it so light is that it doesn't have an internal SuperDrive (writable DVD/CD). Apple sells a special external SuperDrive designed to specifically work with the MacBook Air.
Unfortunately, we couldn't get the SuperDrive to work. Any disc …
Favorite Podcasts
If you're like me, you might like the same podcasts I do. Here are my current favorites.
- You Look Nice Today: A Journal of Emotional Hygiene: I find this hilarious, although I suspect most people won't get it at all. It's basically just three guys talking, alternating between being absurd …
Night Shift
The team I'm working with is involved in installing a new system in South Australia. A few people are on site in Adelaide, but most of us are still back here in Georgia, USA.
South Australia is thirteen-and-a-half hours ahead of US Eastern time. This has made it difficult to …
Secrets of Recruiters
When you are contacted by a recruiter, they will give you a description of the job they want you to take, but they won't tell you the name of the employer. This ensures that they will get their cut for their "assistance" if you eventually get the job.
Luckily, recruiters …
JacksOrBetter for iPhone and iPod Touch
Several years back, I created JacksOrBetter for Palm OS. Now, I've created an updated version of that for iPhone and iPod Touch.
It is available for free. Click here to download from the App Store.
Know Your Programming Languages
I am often amazed at how little some of my colleagues know or care about their craft. Something that constantly frustrates me is that people don't want to learn any more than they need to about the programming languages they use every day. Many programmers seem content to learn some …
First Contact
Today is the anniversary of the first communication between my wife and myself. How did we celebrate? By playing online games on our two Xbox 360 consoles; one in the family room, and one in the bedroom, shouting taunts at one another.
Some may think it's a little sad that …
Fairness
This sentence made my day:
As you know, fairness is a concept that was invented so that children and idiots could participate in arguments.
from the Scott Adams blog (the Dilbert guy).
