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Life Changing Experience

Category: Useless Babble, Posted on Sat, 03 Jul 2010 05:33:35 +0000.
I almost have to laugh when I think about how much I have changed over the last several years, and one of the biggest changes in my life has been my views about having children. I used to be under the impression that having a child would prevent me from doing the things I really [...] Read Full Post

Bitnami Redmine Stack

Category: In Tech, Posted on Wed, 26 May 2010 14:47:03 +0000.
I ran across Bitnami today, and they have some really great software stacks with flexible install options (i.e. Native / VM / Cloud), including PowerPC support so I can put some of these older G5 Powermac’s into use again. I downloaded the VM of their Bitnami Redmine Stack and it was so quick to get [...] Read Full Post

Scheduled Replacement of websrv02 Hardware

Category: Server: websrv02, Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:52:19 +0000.
This is an important notice to inform websrv02 users that we will be replacing the websrv02 server hardware on Friday, February 19th, 2010. The current hardware is about four years old, and while it has not given us any problems we like to make sure our hardware is always in tip-top shape. The websrv02 server [...] Read Full Post

IE6 Is Almost Dead, Really This Time!

Category: Poor Comedy, Posted on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:35:21 +0000.
Google really knows how to make me happy on a Tuesday morning: In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course [...] Read Full Post

Because Everyone Has To Rant Once In A While

Category: In Tech, Posted on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:01:16 +0000.
As a web developer in a graphic designers body I spend a lot of time making what I consider to be very usable and “pretty” interfaces, so I truly resent when Neophyte Bob arbitrarily and publicly posts something like “this interface is too techie” when what he actually mean is “this interface is not completely [...] Read Full Post