I’m writing this blog entry just in case other people come across the same problem and can’t seem to figure out what’s going on. I found it in Xcode 2.5 that hasn’t been fixed in the latest version of Xcode that I have, version 3.1.3. The bug I’m referring to is when you create a … Read more
Ha! I bought a new computer and with it, the pain of having to recreate a new TimeMachine backup on my FreeBSD server. This time, I didn’t feel like creating a sparsebundle image on a local disk and copying it to my server. Why should I? I have plenty of space on the servers. So, … Read more
I have a PC and a Mac that I work with, but mostly I use the Mac. Of course on the Mac, you can do a lot with the Terminal.app and Bash. For example, you can dump out a file listing into a text file: ls *.cpp > ../implementation_files.txt
When I was in college, one of the only courses I remembered was microbiology. I loved that class. One day, the professor asked a question that I actually knew the answer to. I answered and he didn’t say anything for 5 seconds. He looked at this class and asked, “Does anyone know what an expert … Read more
World of goo!
I met my wife and son who were at the beach playground. When my toddler saw me, he got excited and ran around in circles, then bolting off in the direction of a dirt path that led to a gas yard. A toddle can’t run that fast so I followed him and as he was … Read more
I just removed the Google AdSense content from my website and it feels good. Kind of like a guilty good 🙂 I support capitalism. I love capitalism! And making money is a good thing, but sometimes it’s too much. I like some of the commercials and I click on the ones that appeal to me, … Read more
I have had too much fun the past couple of nights. Friday I was out late, watching the Mets beat the Florida Marlins in Citifield 🙂 Saturday night, I watched 3 movies: “The Happening”, which I liked, “10,000 BC”, which really sucked and since I couldn’t end the night on a bad movie experience, I … Read more
When you guys want to send each other a long URL, make it tiny! Go to http://tinyurl.com/ and enter the long URL there and *POP*, out comes the tiny url that you can use instead! So, http://on-my-desk.blogspot.com/2007/02/jennifer-shiman.html turns into http://tinyurl.com/5fk9jv Another friendly advice message from the smartest guy on the block 🙂