Osophy on Greatness (Borrowed)

by philrw

2011-10-24

27 words - 1 min read

…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+

by philrw

2011-10-20

98 words - 1 min read

Personal Tech

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

by philrw

2011-10-17

526 words - 3 min read

Personal Rants and Raves

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"

by philrw

2011-10-11

107 words - 1 min read

Personal

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?

Osophy on Initiative, Scarcity

by philrw

2011-10-11

13 words - 1 min read

Osophy

If necessity is the mother of invention, scarcity is the father of ingenuity.

Saturday Night Special: Bananas « AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com 10/16/2010

by philrw

2011-10-08

83 words - 1 min read

Personal

Just so so so so so so so so so wrong. I had already made it through the Awkward Hall of Fame to this one, and it made me laugh so hard I cried. Normally that would be great but I was backstage in the orchestra pit about to start a number. My snorting was the only sound coming from the pit for about 30 seconds.

Check out their hall of fame while you’re over there.

Saturday Night Special: Bananas « AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com 10/16/2010.