danconley.net

Apple has mastered the art of constantly improving their user interface so that whenever anyone gets a new iPod or Macbook I look at it, and then at my own, and think, ‘Well mine looks like crap!’ Well played, Jobs.

I tried to go to Lying Media Bastards just now, to get more information about the new Radiohead album (in short: go to the Radiohead website and you can buy it, legally, for whatever you feel like paying; I paid 95p, which is ~$2, and you should all do it too so as to encourage [...]

How did anyone live without ubiquitous wifi? We had an oil change/inspection scheduled for today and I brought my Macbook just in case I could find a stray unencrypted network. When I turned it on, I was asked if I wanted to join the “Northtown Guest” network. Why yes, yes I would.
God bless you, intertubes.

I’ve come to love regular expressions. Not only do they make me feel geeky and cool (like when I can turn up my nose and say “Well, I just use vi”), but they’re damn powerful. So, as I was looking for a way to make an EndNote-style importer for CIRRIE, it seemed like the obvious choice. The problem was that there just didn’t seem to be any information on the internet about exactly how I was to go about this.

As I was messing around with Oracle at work this week, I contemplated the “like” syntax. I’ve used it a fair amount (mostly when I’m lazy and don’t feel like typing everything out).

One thing that you should probably know about me is that I play video games. It’s just one of those ways that I relax, along with reading and poorly-played street hockey. My primary platform has become the Xbox 360, which has at its core the Xbox Live service that allows you to play over the [...]

So it appears that I have some work to do on the blogging front. Mainly, that I need to do something. I think, for now, that I’ll leave the blatant image hacks I did of Mike Cherim’s ones intact and focus on getting in some content when I can.
I’ve gone wiki-crazy recently, and have managed [...]