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Aug 21, 2003
Miscellaneous

Science Friday… Err, Thursday

Jim Holt: “I know people who still regard atoms as theoretical fictions. I have friends who claim to doubt the reality of the past, of the future, of other minds. I have heard of academics—though I cannot believe they actually exist—who think that...

Aug 21, 2003
iRooster

:-)

I am officially a professional shareware developer now. I had my first few sales today. This is really cool. :-)

Aug 18, 2003
Personal Life

M500 MIA

I think I lost my Palm M500 tonight. I used to have an M100. I lost that too. I never get too worked up over losing my Palm devices for some reason. Oh well. If it doesn’t show up within a week (my apartment needs to be cleaned a bit) I’ll just bu...

Aug 18, 2003
iRooster

iRooster 1.0 Now Available

iRooster, a Mac OS X-only application, allows you to quickly and easily create alarms to wake you up in the morning. Create a special playlist in iTunes for waking up, or use any of the pre-existing iTunes playlists: iRooster will play back your L...

Aug 17, 2003
Miscellaneous

Education in America

I was just reading slashdot (a bastion of cough insightful, useful comments, as everyone is, no doubt, aware), and I was absolutely shocked to discover a comment that actually made sense. “Teaching children is a low-paying occupation, and you get...

Aug 16, 2003
Personal Life

Cockups and 1.1

So iRooster 1.0 was supposed to go live on Friday. Unfortunately, due to one of those Murphy’s Law-sort-of-things, my account rep at esellerate left the office early on thursday because he felt sick, and never came in on friday. oh well. That’s li...

Aug 11, 2003
iRooster

Just about 1.0

Ok, almost there. I think I crossed the last big hurdle with getting iRooster ready for official 1.0 GM status. This is cool: my first real piece of shipped software (beating out this wee little office suite I worked on last summer for first relea...

Aug 11, 2003
iRooster

eSellerate

The Mac OS X shareware application that I have been working on, iRooster, is done. Well, that is, except for the lovely business of integrating the eSellerate engine into it. I have to say, the eSellerate people have been really cool, and really h...

Linux Usability Disasters

The single most irritating type of comment I ever read on Slashdot is the “but we should stop copying Windows and invent our own unique, better user interface!” This bothers me to no end. I honestly cannot believe that the Linux community will dev...