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It was kind of hard to sleep in for some reason. I think both Kelly and I were anxious to get started with the settling in and unpacking. Dad, Jen, and Jason went to breakfast while Kelly and I got started on some unpacking. Then we drove over to Sarah’s, dropped off my car, and [...]

No home Internet access until I move

When I came home today, my Internet access wasn’t working. There was a single blinking light on the cable modem. Cable TV was fine. I did some basic troubleshooting and decided it was hardware but called Comcast anyway. The customer service person I spoke to agreed it was hardware. She suggested I bring in my [...]

Five hours later

Five and a half hours since the Apple Store opened and at least in Pentagon City, the is still wrapped around the third level of the mall, above the food court. I saw Apple employees handing out water bottles to people in line earlier. It takes some dedication to stay in on (ugh!) in line [...]

Who said no lines at the Apple Store?

I read in some reviews of the new iPhone that people wouldn’t be flooding Apple stores the same way they did for the original phone more than a year ago. I don’t know why the reviewers thought this would be so, but they were definitely wrong about it. The picture to the right was taken [...]

Backup!

I realized this evening that it had been quite a while since I’d done a full backup of my data. I do regular incremental backups to my iDisk, but I hadn’t done a full data backup in a long time. I did one tonight and I feel much better.

Protected: A practical side to video chats

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For those who like maps and charts, this is too cool to pass up…

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Helpful tip for anyone trying to build collection objects in PHP using the IteratorAggregate

If anyone out there is trying to build a collection object in PHP using the IteratorAggregate, here’s a tip that will save you hours of debugging and online searching: Return an ArrayObject from getIterator()! What finally worked for me looks something like this: class Collection implements IteratorAggregate { private $items = array(); private $count = [...]

Kitchen juggling and other miscellaneous stuff

Happy March! Last night I prepared the most complex meal I’ve ever done so far. It was not complex in terms of ingredients or anything light that. I made ravioli with pasta sauce, and steamed broccoli, which I suppose is fairly simple. But I had three burners on the stove going at the same time, [...]

Website and reading list updates!

I’ve spend the last couple of nights revamping my website and my reading list pages. They are finally at a point where I have once again made them public. So what has changed? Website Transformed to simple HTML Reorganized content Brought content up-to-date Reading List Complete rewrite using PHP and MySQL Simple HTML Dynamic queries [...]

Overload

My brain is chock full of object classes, inheritance, polymorphism, data collections, assertions, loop invariants, capital-I interfaces, generics, sessions, caching and hashing and no more will fit. I’ve literally filled up that portion of my brain that thinks in programming terms. Nothing new will go in. And I’m not really sure what to do, so [...]

I’m stylin’!

Last night was another early-to-bed evening. I think I was in bed sometime after 6 PM, but read until just about 8 PM. (At present I’m 516 pages into Our Oriental Heritage, deeply immersed in Hinduism.) I fell into a deep sleep until nearly 2 AM. Then I felt like I was wide awake, so [...]

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