Google Chrome, the browser-as-a-modern-operating-system, came out of beta earlier this week. I love that Chrome uses Safari’s WebKit engine. I love that the version it uses is more advanced than that which Safari uses, so you not only get to use fancy CSS3-esque features like box-shadow: and border-radius:, but it features the improved Web Inspector. […]
I finished a consulting project yesterday that had been taking up most of my free time for the past couple of weeks. It has been nice to relax so far this weekend without that constant worry: “Isn’t there something else productive that I should be working on?” And for the first time in quite a […]
Brent Simmons on working at home, in an interview by Shawn Blanc): BRENT: Ever since I was a kid I pictured myself working at home. I thought it would be as a novelist rather than a programmer, but it’s about the same thing: I sit in a chair in front of a computer and make […]
I’m on the road for StewTech at the PCUSA General Assembly, and in our booth I have a projector set up as my PowerBook’s second display. The trouble is, I have my back to the projector. I don’t want to mirror my display up there, but I want to be able to see what I’m […]
When I lived with my parents in Maryland, I tried my hand at operating my own web design business, Oak Lawn Design, after the torrent of oak leaves that fall every year from the ~50 trees on my parents’ 9/10ths of an acre. I set up a website, got a business phone line, a toll […]
Over the past few months, I’ve been frustrated at not being able to make time for the various projects I’ve committed myself to. With some of them, friendships are at stake. So the other night, I sat down and wrote out myself a schedule: what projects I’d tackle each night of the week until they’re […]
Andy sent me this article describing why email can be bad for you, and how to be more productive in general. (Homestar: “Ow … those things are BAD for you!”) Let’s take the concentration impact first. I’m a software engineer, and programming requires extended periods of concentration. Actually this isn’t unique to programming, a lot […]
I’m no longer sure ‘moving’ up to Pennsylvania last year was the right thing to do. Taking CTI’s offered full-time managerial position seemed like a good career move, and it was certainly a step towards independence … though perhaps one now lost by moving back home. On the other hand, maybe this is where I […]
We were planning to drive up to Pennsylvania tonight to go to the Ickesburg Firemen’s Carnival (in the town where we used to live) to see old friends, but because Dad got sick last night, we couldn’t. I was kind of disappointed, because Sam was going to come along up with us and eat some […]
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