Last night, when I was at the Quicken site looking at possible upgrades to Quicken 2006 for the Macintosh - either Quicken 2007 for Macintosh or Quicken 2008 for Windows (running under VMWare) - the prices were $59.99 (Macintosh) and $39.99 (Windows/Deluxe)
Today they are $69.99 and $59.99.
That might have made the decision for me [...]
… a warm puppy. — Charles Schulz
Mark is right of course
My current theory is that it’s some twisted form of wish fulfillment. “I wish this company understood the value of openness, but they don’t, so I’m going to keep buying their closed, crippled shit until they get it.” Yeah, let me know how that works out for you. [...]
So, I have to admit it. I’m an Apple Fanboy.
I have been for just under 5 years (again). I say “again” because some history is order. I personally had one of the first PowerPC’s available - a 6100/60 AV - that I bought while attending NCSU after co-op’ing [...]
Facebook, Quechup, and now Twitter.
Folks, I’ve had it. This is not a feature. It started going downhill when I was still briefly using Facebook, before my permanent embargo - and I got friendship invitation from Hugh MacLeod. Yes - that Hugh MacLeod.
You might would have thought [...]
12 years later - O.J. is back in the news.
Henceforth, I shall resolve that this blog will be a “No O.J. None of the Time” blog.
But it gives me great joy to be able to resurrect 12 year-old newspaper columns that are basically just as relevant today as then.
As I was remarking to [...]
This is one of the reasons I absolutely loathe java. And it has nothing to do with the language. It has to do with the culture.
There are a few services that we run that are java-based. History shows that most of these seem to run happier using the JVM [...]
Yes, I went totally phatic (props to Kevin for the term) with twitter this morning. In case you missed it - it was like my own version of JAY - behind the music:
Jason Adam Young: was leavin’ - but got sidetracked by Sunny Sweeney - leavin’ itunes NOW
Jason Adam Young: IMDB left out the [...]
Quote Kim Cameron:
what counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL
what counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL
what counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL
what counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL
what counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL
what counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL
what counts is the ACCOUNT, not the CREDENTIAL
what counts is the [...]
Last line of the vmware update script I just ran:
INFO: Install succeeded - please come again.
Funny.
Why just a week? My embargo on Facebook (and LinkedIn - which really never started ever) - is permanent.
I’m also an introvert, which makes that easy, but until they approach the open nature of a del.icio.us or Flickr (which both still need OpenID) - I won’t be back.
I was trying to search Lexis/Nexis for a court case involving a relative for another relative… and I saw the funniest record of the week:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. NINETY-SIX THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($ 96,100.00) IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY, Defen-dant.
No. 06-2370-B
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE, WESTERN [...]
Darby Conley:
“Truly, to idiot there is always opposed an equal idiot.”
So last night I had a dream that I left the University and took a job with Microsoft.
Writing Java.
The dream was pretty detailed, I was walking around some kind of Queen Anne-style house - which apparently was the team’s meeting place - and in what would be the parlor in some overstuffed chairs I started [...]
So, after finding the only webform contact I could find to contact facebook - I have to say that I was impressed that I got an answer:
Hi Jason,
The Facebook Platform does not currently support the method you are requesting. We are always making improvements to our platform, and we will certainly keep this [...]
So ComputerWorld posted The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills (via Michael DeHaan)
I love these - It’s the tech geek equivalent of your granddad and the bucket of books up hill both ways in the snow.
My report card.
I’m so incredibly happy I never touched cobol or fortran. I came into Computer Science [...]
So, one of our web applications has some combination of html forms, css, and javascript that triggers a bug in revisions of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.
Basically - the edit action, which pops up three text areas, and a bunch of check boxes with some UI and xhttprequest javascript - causes IE 6.mumble to lock [...]
And clearly the most accurate too.
I would hate to know what sort of letter to the company prompted this warning.
So back in January Kevin issued a challenge:
“Will Jason start twittering before December 2007?
Of which Kevin decided to write a reminder about today.
I think Kevin forgot his Dante because I actually said “snowball” and “hell”
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of presence in instant messaging systems - particularly xmpp. In my [...]
