Aaron Brethorst (Page 199)

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...