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Archive for March 24th, 2006

You know you are a http geek when…

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You laugh out loud at your own stupid internal joke about how behind you are reading your newsfeeds and see what your unread count was on your aggregator when you refreshed your subscriptions:

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March 24th, 2006 at 6:35 pm

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I Worry for Tuttle

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This Register story was pointed out to me by a former colleague in the College of Engineering.

The link to the whole exchange at the bottom of the Register story is a must read.

As I commented to my peers in Extension Technology, stories like that indicate to me that we have some work cut out for us in continuing to educate our colleagues and peers (and ourselves) about IT. I worry a lot about the computing infrastructure in Tuttle right now, if that is the reaction of a City Manager with “22 years in computer systems engineering and operation.”

Information and Computing Technologies might well deserve to be an Extension Program in itself, because it seems like that could be as important as fire ant control, pest management, financial security, and the whole series of “real life events” education that our Extension System puts out. Especially for Tuttle. (to be fair, it was a tricky problem, but you have to have some sense, somewhere, maybe)

Wow, just wow. It’s like my worst nightmare recently come true.

[Update]: Rob Grau: “CentOS: The Web Breaker (TM)” Hahahahahahahahaha

Written by jayoung

March 24th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

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Adobe and Macintel

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You know…

Adobe has gotten a lot of flack about the whole “we won’t be Universal until CS3″ thing. And I for one, think Adobe deserves a lot of flack about a lot of things….

But not about this.

Good grief, switching from Metrowerks to XCode has to be a bear

And you know, for the first time in Adobe’s history - they seem to be dealing with this pretty openly

So cut them some slack, and get ready to watch Photoshop kick butt on the Intel Desktops Apple better announce at WWDC :-)

Written by jayoung

March 24th, 2006 at 3:32 pm

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