Over on his blog, The Waiter’s Pad, Mike Dariano asks, “How much coding do you really need?” It is an interesting thought piece. He observes that, What we really mean when we say, “people should know how to code” is that people should be able to use tools to deliver value. I’ve been coding for…
Today is the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I wanted to acknowledge this here. Each year, on the morning of 9/11, I pull out my diary from the days immediately before and after and read through it. I still can’t watch the footage on TV. I don’t have anything original to add to all…
Apple’s newest OS upgrade (OS 10.5, codename, “Leopard”) was released on Friday. There’s a ton of cool new features and I decided I’d head over to the Apple Store and pick it up. At the same time, in the back of my mind, I’d been thinking for a while now that it was time for…
Certain keys on my laptop keyboard have begun to squeak when I depress them, none more so than the spacebar. It’s driving me nuts! It’s the kind of thing that would force me to go out and by another laptop if I wasn’t about to shell out $3,000 in taxes! Does anyone know how to…
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I ended up sleeping about 12 hours last night. As I mentioned, I went to bed at 4:30 PM. I woke up briefly around 10:30 PM. I ate something, got my things ready for work the next day and then watched an episode of Magnum P.I. By 11:30 PM, I was back to sleep. When…
I’m too exhausted to even begin to get into all of the computer woes we are having at my work right now. My work computer was messed up and I’m in the middle of rolling out one software project and starting on another. I literally could not work from the office this morning, so I…