I know it sounds a little harsh, but after spending the past few days in chilly, snowy Ohio for the holidays, we’re glad to be back in Florida. We spent Christmas Eve day doing some last minute shopping and preparations, which included cooking lasagna (in our hotel room) to take to dinner at my aunt’s [...]
Archive of entries posted in December 2009
Ohio for the holidays
We’re up in Ohio for Christmas … brrr! Last night we checked into the Marriott at the Tampa Airport using their “Park Here, Fly There” package (a one-night stay with up to 7 days of “free” valet parking). This way we didn’t have to use the remote long-term parking lot and not get up as [...]
WIJFR: The Wizardry Compiled
Wiz Zumwalt, ex-Cupertino programmer and now mighty wizard in a sword-and-sorcery world, must contend with the need to act as a leader in the Council of the North, the need to teach his new magic programming system to others, and the need to rewrite his spell compiler system. He also learns of incredibly destructive ends [...]
Laser tag has come a long way
Today we had my daughter’s birthday party (with three other birthday kids from her class) at the Xtreme Fun Center for laser tag and video games. Wow, laser tag is awesome! My sister and I owned a pair of Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag pistols and sensors when we were kids and used to run [...]
Google’s Chromium OS is, uh, a browser
Google’s forthcoming Chromium OS has gotten a lot of buzz recently. My trusty old EeePC 4G Surf has become quite the sandbox for trying out different netbook operating systems, so of course now it is running Chromium. I downloaded the latest of Hexxeh’s Chrome builds, copied the image onto a 1gb thumb drive, and then [...]
Sent from my iPhone
I’m writing this post on my iPhone using the WordPress app. It doesn’t have the kitchen sink features of the browser-based interface (for example, you can’t insert hyperlinks — I added that from the web after the post was published), but it seems good for writing basic posts or editing existing ones.
Apple iPhone 3GS
After over 13 years of using (mostly) PalmOS and (some) Windows Mobile devices as my PDA and/or cell phone, I now own my first device that runs … OS X. Yep, I got an iPhone. We’re in the early stages of testing the iPhone with our corporate e-mail infrastructure: Microsoft Exchange and GoodLink. Since my AT&T account has been upgrade-eligible for some time (the [...]
