Entries for Wednesday, August 20, 2008
➠ August 20, 2008
No phrase gets a round of nervous laughter in an engineering meeting quite like “the production laptop”. (“But it’s got battery backup!”)
Posted to Twitter at 7 p.m.
Things - task management on the Mac
I will confess to having fallen somewhat head-over-heels in love with Things as a TODO list manager over the last couple of days. Requires some light symlinking-to-an-iDisk to “sync” across machines, but offers the right levels of “This is a task for today/soon/sometime” to help keep me organized. Next step: Play with the iPhone app.
Celebrating the *one* piece of good luck I’ve had today: got a parking spot right outside the parking permit office! http://twitpic.com/8dmd
Posted to Twitter at 2:08 p.m.
Did you know: if you join AAA when you already have a flat battery, they’ll refuse to come help you. Unless you grovel. Really grovel.
Posted to Twitter at 2:04 p.m.
This morning has been a comedy of errors. Except without, y’know, ANY SODDING COMEDY.
Posted to Twitter at 1:56 p.m.
Passing the time by watching the stream of other folks who made the same mistake I did.
Posted to Twitter at 10:58 a.m.
Since I was up early, decided to hit DMV to get car registration sorted out. Guess which morning they open at 9 instead of 8?
Posted to Twitter at 10:58 a.m.
Frosted Flakes are, reportedly, the official cereal of Tony the Tiger. Feeling bad that I’ve been eating the bootleg cereal all these years.
Posted to Twitter at 9:42 a.m.
Stevey's Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
“ONLY BUILD STUFF FOR YOURSELF. That’s the Golden Rule of Building Stuff. If you’re planning to build something for someone else, let someone else build it.”
REST Request
Another handy REST post. The API I’m building at work currently only uses GET & POST, this helps explain that it’s still “RESTful”
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