All Blog Posts (Page 98) | Aaron Brethorst

Mar 18, 2004

blizzards

I remember why I hate winter in the rest of the country. Wow. Talk about a blizzard…

Mar 01, 2004

Ah, another successful day in terms of the growing popular appeal of iRooster. More and more people are hitting my blog looking for serial numbers for iRooster. For anyone who runs into this entry trying to find a way around paying $10 for the app...

Feb 24, 2004

Technology

My Kingdom for a LISP

I’m working on a project right now that requires me to parse a humongous tree of data (folders and html files), and then build all sorts of interesting visual structures out of this information. It’s being done in C#, since it’s an ASP.Net web app...

Feb 23, 2004

Miscellaneous

blizzards

I remember why I hate winter in the rest of the country. Wow. Talk about a blizzard…

Feb 22, 2004

Random Funniness

Ever Wonder What the Degauss Button Does?

Sharpened.net: “Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.” Yup, it scares the bad magnetism out of your monitor. Makes sense to me. Now if only I could get a “turn into a 21” LCD screen” button for my ol...

Sep 16, 2003

Personal Life

baz, bar, foo

Beep is up and running. I’m typing this entry in on him right now. He’s rather a dog right now. I have a 256MB SODIMM from Sugar Daddy Mac that’s going into him in the near future, but it turns out that I need a phillips head screwdriver the size ...

Sep 13, 2003

iRooster

holy crap (again)!

So I just figured out why iRooster has been so damned popular since Thursday. Note the URL that this is from. Holy crap!

Sep 13, 2003

Personal Life

augh - panic attack

I have been having a constant low-grade panic attack over Monday since I got the fateful call on Thursday. It’s getting to be a little overwhelming. Every time I think I have been able to just deal with what’s happening I remember the gravity of t...

Sep 11, 2003

Technology

oh crap

It looks like my 15” Titanium Powerbook G4, Sugar Daddy Mac, age 21 months, passed away today. Needless to say, I am slightly less than thrilled about this. If anyone can offer some advice on this (i.e. perhaps it’s just mostly dead, to quote Bill...

Sep 11, 2003

Personal Life

holy crap!

It never rains, it pours. iRooster appears to have been a featured download on apple.com today. I had several thousand downloads and as many purchases today as I did all last month. I ordered an ibook from smalldog. It is a stopgap until aluminu...