All Blog Posts (Page 98)

Aug 26, 2003
iRooster

food for thought

Why I develop software in my free time: “You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly...

Aug 26, 2003
Personal Life

And that' that

I am definitely, completely, officially done with school forever. I just finished my final for the rhetoric class I was taking. I didn’t need to take the class, but I needed financial aid for the summer, and it looked (and proved to be) really int...

Aug 25, 2003
iRooster

wake from sleep, redux.

A few quick things to toss out there. iRooster 2.0 will, without a doubt, be Panther-only. I have zero clue what the timeframe is for that right now. For the time being, I think I have to use the kludgy PMU property setter interface (blergh). From...

Aug 23, 2003
iRooster

Wake from Sleep

Well, it looks like Wake from Sleep is finally working properly, at least under most best-to-good-case scenarios. I am not entirely sure how much abuse it can take quite yet, so I need to keep plugging away at that. On the bright side of things, ...

Aug 22, 2003
Miscellaneous

Because I’m 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
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 20, 2003
Zoon Politikon

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
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...