Last night, I had vivid dreams. This is not unusual in itself, but the subject of the dreams were “odd” to say the least. I dreamt that I was in France, riding (for fun) stages of the Tour de France. On an old, unreliable 3-speed bicycle. So unreliable that I was breaking cranks, pulling spokes, and snapping chains. Yeah, that is pretty bad. But add to that we were using these same...
I spied it gingerly. It was a couple seat away from me in the waiting area at the Southwest gate in the SanJose Airport. I wasn’t sure what it was at first, but I finally figured it out. It was the first Microsoft “Surface” tablet that I had ever seen that wasn’t part of a store display. Someone was actually using it. Not sure if it was the RT version, or the PRO version...
The other day, walking my dogs in the morning, someone was taking their early 1970’s Monte Carlo out for a drive. Ah, the sound, the rumble, the rough idle of a carbureted 454CID engine in a sedan was enough to make me wax poetically. There is something about late 60’s and early 70’s heavy metal (American muscle cars) that just goes to the core of my being. The mechanical...
So, I run a website for a great group of people. It is a non-profit that rescues greyhounds. Sometimes, they need to post something, so I get a file in Microsoft Word, and I need to get it HTML formatted. Their website is based around Joomla, and I use the JCE rich text editor. In general, it works pretty good, but sometimes it is thrown for a loop by what Microsoft outputs as HTML. An example:...
In the past I have pitted Spotify against Google All Access, and while the Google offering was slightly cheaper, it had enough warts to drop it into second place. At that time, I mentioned that I looked forward to Apple’s offering, and would revisit when it was officially launched. iTunes has long supported internet radio stations, but they were all third party, and of quite varied quality...
I have been a premium subscriber of Evernote for a few years. At first, I paid to get the larger amount of storage, and to toss them a bone. It is the premier cross platform notebook. I have written in the past that Microsoft’s OneNote is a better app, but being Windows only means that I am not going to adopt it. At first, the disparity in features between OneNote and Evernote were pretty...
Being a “geek” I frequent a lot of geek-y websites. One topic that comes up over and over is a raw hatred for all things Apple. Macs, phones, ipods, ipads, you name it, and you would think that Apple, instead of being one of the most loved companies on the planet, is staffed by the Antichrist. The thing that really bugs me, is that much of this hate, and virulence is completely...
The weather is (finally) cooling down, and that brings more people on the roads and trails. A while back I posted on the lunacy of cyclists here (not knowing hand signals, riding against traffic, riding on the sidewalk etc), but today I saw some new ass-hattery on the canals in Gilbert/Mesa. First, I was passing a slower cyclist. Wide open path, plenty wide, and he was well to the right. So I...
Today, I got to flex some intellectual muscles. We had our monthly engineering meeting, where we bring our founder in (from the local university) and we discuss technical projects. I am a mere marketing flunky. Before the meeting started, we were discussing swimming pools, and how here in Phoenix, with our uber hard water, and high evaporation rate, that your pool accumulates a lot of...
From this awful laptop that is a hopeless pile of crap, to the core strength that was once HP, their printers, it is apparent how the mighty have fallen. I have posted before on the travails of my lousy laptop. Suffice it to say that it works, but the power management bits are pretty messed up (not sure if it is windows, or the hardware, and frankly at this point, I don’t care.) This post...