Floors! Floors! Floors!
Finally… the living room is DONE!
Wall Street Isn't Winning It's Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Matt Taibbi has written some excellent stuff. My favorite is his article, “The Great American Bubble Machine.” This article summarizes why Americans are angry and expressing it via protests.
Wall Street Isn’t Winning It’s Cheating | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone.
Google+ for Google Apps Is Here
Hooray for Google+! I just noticed the option to enable Google+ in my apps domain dashboard. Now I can play with it and set up my social network all over again. :)
Non-Humans Need Not Dial
I have just implemented a whitelist on my phone system. Those of you who are in my address book should notice no change, however those of you who are not will have to step through a hoop to get the call connected. I will say no more than that, but it’s a relatively painless one-time process in order to add another layer of convenience and privacy to my phone system.
Why is Whitelisting Absent from Telephones? :: TechMiso.
Osophy on Greatness (Borrowed)
…People who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.
via Great Hackers.
ab2vcard 1.1 for Mac OS 10.7+
I was using ab2vcard to sync my Mac OS X Address Book with my PBX. It was working great for many years. Then Apple up and removed Rosetta support from Mac OS 10.7 Lion and I was up the creek. So I hacked together a klugey fix by importing the source code into Xcode 4 and recompiling and ta-da! It works.
If anyone wants the new binary, let me know and I’ll post it here. Otherwise you’re probably already adept enough to recompile it for Intel on your own. This was my first foray into Xcode and Objective-C.
Why I Track My Money
It seems obvious, doesn’t it? You keep a ledger of your account transactions, then you reconcile them with the bank’s statement at the end of each month. Simple. Everyone learns this in grade school, right? You do it because you were told to do it. You do it because that’s the way it’s always been.
"The Heat is On" or "CO in CO, It's a Gas"
I made my furnace work yesterday. I had to replace a fuse (really!) and the fan limit switch. The latter is an 8-inch probe that sticks into the plenum and acts as both the blower fan controller and a high-temperature safety override for the gas valve. Let there be heat! And it was hot.
This was just one of many things that the previous occupant neglected.
Now if only I could be sure my heat exchanger was intact… cough, cough. Wait, why am I feeling sleepy and lightheaded all of a sudden?