9. The Apple Support Experience

   So, having jumped into Apple land with a Mac Mini recently, and having some problems, I of course took advantage of my included 90 days technical support. Being part of the Apple ecosystem includes being subject to how they support their customers, so I think it's important to write about …

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10. Parenting can really make you feel helpless

    I've only been kicking around for a bit over 40 years now, but I've never found anything in the world to make me feel more helpless than my own child telling me that they feel bad, and knowing that I can't fix it.

    My daughter was sick last night, and …

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11. Customizing Awesome

    As I mentioned previously, I'm currently running Awesome on my netbook. While I added suspend on lid close, I still need to customize the crap out of it. I had nothing showing me my current battery status, so I searched around to find the appropriate lua code, a language that …

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12. Tweeting on OS X

    For some time my desktop has been an older, underpowered Linux box, so using services like Twitter via the website has been painful, as loaded with heavy javascript that would consume my CPU's limited resources.

    So, like any Python programmer would do, I wrote my own client. Well, lets be …

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13. Suspend on lid close in Debian Squeeze

    I recently decided that Gnome is not the best desktop for my little EeePC netbook with a little 10.5" screen. So I'm playing around with a window manager that mainly just maximizes everything. I've tried Ratpoison, I've tried wmii, and now I'm trying Awesome.

    I have a lot of …

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14. Joysticks? We don't need no stinking joysticks...

    So, after unpackaging my brand-spanking new Mac Mini, I grabbed a copy of the X-Plane demo, dropped in an old usb joystick and fired it up. Oddly, X-Plane itself asked me if I wanted to calibrate the joystick, which struck me as odd, that hasn't happened in years, not since …

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15. Umm, done unzipping yet?

    So, the first thing I did after after wrapping my head around the cocoa interface was to start installing software like a madman. I wanted Firefox, VLC, Kobo, Gimp, Vim, etc, etc, etc. So, I had to learn how to install apps on OS X.

    Apps in OS X seem …

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16. Ok, nobody panic, there's a fruit on my screen

    I've needed a new desktop for a while now. As I'm primarily a Unix user, I typically buy a cheap PC and put Linux on it. This involves doing a bunch of research into available hardware to make sure that everything is going to work, like accelerated graphics for any …

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17. What Curling has taught me about life

    I've been curling for about 4 years now, and it's already taught me a lot about life. I thought I'd share some of what it has taught me:

    • balance is very important
    • anything worthwhile requires hard work
    • you often can't brute force your way out of a problem
    • you must …

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18. I sit too much

    Yeah, I really do. From my childhood I always prefered more intellectual activities than active ones, reading, watching movies, tv. Growing up asthmatic had something to do with that, but I overcame it later in life and had no excuses anymore. Still, studies to do, computers to play with, digital …

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