I’m not “a Mac” in the commercial persona paradigm, I’m more of a VMware cluster. Starting in 2006, my primary home computer has been a Mac of one sort or another. It’s become very familiar, even when I was a…
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Regular Purging
I go through these cycles of collection and purging in my office. Between spare computers and displays to random extra office supplies, I end up with a marginally cluttered work area from time to time. (My idea of cluttered is…
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Matt’s Year of Reading
I began this year with a goal to increase my annual reading load to fifteen books from last year’s twelve. I also had planned to blog about each one. Oops. Since finishing What Americans Really Want… Really by Frank Lutz,…
Nescafe Taster’s Choice Instant Coffee
Via Sweet Free Stuff, my wife found me a sampler of Nescafe’s Taster’s Choice Instant Coffee. I love coffee, and I complain regularly about what we have around the office so she’s been looking for alternatives that might keep me…
It Seems So Obvious
It seems so obvious: If you want to develop software that’s useful to people, you’ve got to talk with them. But too many developers take the anti-social approach and consider customer support to be beneath their status… If you really…
I Don’t Care How Good You Are At Programming
I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks… you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to…
Book A Month – March 2009 (again)
In as much as The Watchmen pledged allegiance to the original, V For Vendetta went its own way. There are entire major plot lines that were re-thought, entire character arcs dropped, historical elements shifted to be “less British”, etc. I found this jarring, but after the first hundred pages, I had the same reaction I have whenever I read an original after seeing an adaptation for film – I end up thinking the book’s way better.
Book A Month – February 2009 Kick-Off
Ok. I said that I was going to force myself to get through the rest of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle sometime this year. There’s no time like the present, so I might as well get started now! Besides, since I pledged…
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Reading The News With Little Time
Keeping up with the goings-on in the world seems to be harder than normal these days. Maybe it’s life and maybe it’s work, but it seems like I have less and less Quadrant 2 and 4 time lately. [I’m not…
Home Backup Project – Part 7: Four Months Later
About four months ago, I set out to fix a looming technology problem at home, having no solid backup strategy. After some arguably un-scientific research, I came up with a solution which has given me a decent amount of the…
