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Aug 22, 2003

Because Iâm feeling bored

TGIF, and here are the Best Hexadecimal Values Ever: 0xdeadbeef 0xbeefcafe Soooo tired, must keep eyes open at work for another 40 minutes.

Aug 21, 2003

iRooster

:-)

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

Aug 21, 2003

Miscellaneous

Science Fridayâ¦ 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 20, 2003

Politics

Why Geoff Hates Dubya

Geoff: “When I look at George W. Bush, I don’t see a patriot. I see a lying, psychopathic narcissist.”

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 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 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

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...

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...