This is a good story. It doesn’t have a happy ending — but only because it isn’t an ending, it’s a continuing story whose end has yet to be written. Before I started Oak Circle, I had an earlier company (the one that created Project Badger). That was my first successful business, but it was [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2009
“Reduce Your Debt with a DIY Balance Transfer”
Sneaky. I like it.
Switching to Git
A little while ago, I wrote about how I’d started using a version-control system (Subversion) for my source code files. It worked well, but now that I’ve got a really good network-attached storage device (“the NAS” from here on), I wanted to put my repositories on there instead of keeping them on my local drive. [...]
“InstallerApp For Mac Installs Jailbreak Apps Without Jailbreaking Your iPhone”
I was quite surprised, a few days ago, when my official Apple “iPhone Apps” RSS feed came up with something called “InstallerApp 1.0,” because the description says that it’s a way to put iPhone apps that currently require jailbreaking on your unjailbroken iPhone: InstallerApp is a native Mac OS X application that allows you easily [...]
Network-Attached Storage
I’ve long had a vision of the perfect computer storage device. It’s physically small, but holds an absolutely ludicrous amount of data. It’s instantly available to all my computers and other electronics, but I have full control over who can access its contents. And it’s reliable enough that, with the occasional off-site backup, I never [...]
“Everyone has a secret life but will Google find it?”
Tom Foremski offers an interesting take on the usual advice about putting stuff on the ‘net, and one that I have to agree with: While being careful about what you post is still good advice, I have even better advice: be very active on the Internet — anything bad will be diluted into the long [...]
“Three Star Programmers”
A tongue-in-cheek rating system for C programmers. (For what it’s worth, I don’t think I’ve ever used three asterisks together in one of my programs. And since I moved to C++, I’ve rarely even needed to use two. I’m always using single asterisks though. I guess I’m only a one-star programmer these days. )
“Italians boffins prove plausibility of spam-javelin spam”
Oh great… a penis-lengthening system that might actually work?! The spam level is going to go through the roof now.
“Microsoft: Vista desktop key to life fulfillment”
According to a Microsoft-employed psychologist, I’m a “shy and retiring type” (because my computer’s desktop uses a plain blue background) “who likes to feel in control” (as shown by the neat rows of icons there). Thank goodness Microsoft is around to provide these insights. I’d never have known otherwise.
“Vatican vetos ‘dot god’ domain”
Darn, and I was really looking forward to moving this blog to www.geek.god…