July 23, 2008: And I’m off… well, not quite
As a birthday present this year, I’m treating myself to two weeks in
South America. I’m starting off in Buenos Aires where I plan on
staying at least one night. From there things are not too set in stone
- if at all. I have to end up in Santiago on the 31st and I’ve heard
several stories about the passage from Argentina being both open and
closed. I probably should just bite the bullet and buy a flight but
the road trip is supposed to be quite nice so it’s worth the chance.
I have a couple of friends roaming about Mendoza at this very moment
so I hope we’ll be able to connect. In Santiago I’ll be stating with
my brother and a couple of friends in an apartment they’ve rented for
one or two weeks. We’re hoping to get some boarding done but, just
like everything else, there’s no plan.
At this point I have just a backpack, my cameras and phone. Hopefully
I’ll be able to get a local SIM to have just in case. I did find out
the metro stations in Buenos Aires have free wifi so at least I’ll
gave that as a fallback although I dont doubt the availability of
Internet cafes.
For now, I’m just at Hartfield waiting for my delayed flight to start
boarding and hoping this is not some kind if bad foreshadowing of
things to come.
June 11, 2008: For my birthday…
AOL City Guide is now taking votes on your city’s best so, if you’re in, say, Atlanta, you can put in your vote for your favorite venues including the best coffee shop in town. Not to brag or anything but my brother’s shop (Joe’s East Atlanta) is currently in the lead (of course).
Since the winners will coincidentally be announced on my birthday now you don’t have to worry about what to get me.
April 5, 2008: GnuPG-2 and ABxLDAP under Leopard 10.5.2
After a recent upgrade to Leopard, I hit a couple of roadblocks while trying to reconfigure my system for GnuPG and ABxLDAP. Both were working just fine under Tiger so it took a little digging in to figure out what was up.
December 20, 2007: Best / Worst
Courtesy of YouTube:
- Worst robbery in the history of robbery attempts.
- Best DUI ever (courtesy of.. Reno 911?)
Thanks to Jason and Kat.
November 8, 2007: You Say You Want a Revolution
Well, let’s say it’s a revolution of sorts. I glance over engadget and tuaw daily and for some time I’ve noticed this annoying trend where a post that covers, say, a product will link it to a tag on their own blog instead of the site of the product itself. For example, tuaw recently covered Quicksilver going open-source. As I read it I thought to myself wow, cool
so I proceeded to click the linked Quicksilver text expecting it to take me to the official Quicksilver site (http://blacktree.com/?quicksilver) to read about the news but instead I ended up on a tuaw page listing all posts tagged quicksilver
(http://www.tuaw.com/tag/Quicksilver/).
October 25, 2007: Barring a miracle..
Game 1 result: 13-1. Can we just declare the Sox winners and end the season? I guess this makes me officially rooting for the Sox to sweep the series since that would mean only three more days of stupid baseball highlights. Would that be asking too much? I think not.
What kills me is that game 1 has to be on Wednesday. In actuality, I probably should hope for a 5-game series since a sweep would mean Saturday night’s college football coverage is going to be overshadowed by all the world series hoopla surrounding the winner. Do we really need three more nights of highlights? I mean it’s only been, what, 170-plus games since the start of the season?
September 27, 2007: Replacing the Back End
I gave blogging software a try a few years back but it proved frustrating to say the least so I gave up on it and wrote my own. After some updates and with new projects on my plate I’ve decided to try again. So without further ado, I present to you the wordpress-based digressed.net v1.1. It took a little time to port the theme over and there are still a few quirks here and there but, overall, it seems to be doing its job. The real test, however, will come once I attempt to post while I travel.
July 25, 2007: Reconnected
Well, it looks like we’re back in business with Broadvoice. In fact, it was like we were never down. Even though SunRocket had closed
, the gizmo was still getting calls for days afterward. I signed up with BroadVoice on July 16th, set up forwarding on my SunRocket account that same night and we continued getting calls to our old number as late as this past Monday. I had faxed the number-transfer form to BroadVoice on the 17th and today our transfer was completed so I finally unplugged the gizmo.
It seems we got pretty lucky as other people I know lost service right away. Anyways, if anyone wants a Gizmo, let me know as I might not have any use for ours.