February 2007 Entries
The South by Southwest 2007 organizers released an official torrent showcasing bands featuring 739 mp3s, 3.1 Gb worth. Free! I started at AA Sound System and I'm going to listen to it straight through to Zykos. As far as I can see there are zero repeated bands and I've only heard of maybe 10% them. What a perfect way to discover new music. Here's the SWSX page and the direct torrent link. (I use uTorrent) [via Waxy] Technorati tags: sxsw, torrent, mp3s
First of all, this picture cracks me up. For those that missed it the first time, the tron guy page is here: TRONcostume
And I would love to dedicate three pages worth of text regarding my complex relationship to Linux, but I'm in the middle of focusing here, and will offer just a couple of generalizations for now.
I would really like to be into an open source operating system. I would use it, I would donate, I would evangelize, I would blog tips, hang out in forums, the whole nine yards. Except I don't really like *this* open source operating...
I created a feed for Notches (the startup I am building) announcements. Of course, you'll probably find a majority of the content there is replicated or cross-posted here. :)
The idea is that this will be just for major announcement activity and separate from the company blog -- which we are already drafting posts for btw.
The FeedBurner RSS/ATOM feed is here*:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/NotchesAnnounce
If you prefer you can subscribe via Email with this link.
* I use FeedDemon (for Windows), but I hear very good things about Google Reader
When I bought my powerhouse Dell workstation laptop, I had to forgo my Tablet PC dreams. Of course, doing development work and spending 12+ hours a day on it, I'm pretty happy with this beast. It is fast as heck, the screen is dense and gorgeous. An opportunity to buy a well used/loved Toshiba M200 came up and after I was offered purchase terms that were extremely generous I went for it. Thank you Rajiv! First thing I wanted to do was a clean Vista install. Except there's no DVD drive. I tried a USB drive, but...
I've been running Vista for a while now and I only have two significant outstanding issues. A corrupted iPod thanks to Apple's unforgivable lack of testing on Vista. Guys, the betas, release clients and RTM versions have been out for what, eighteen months? I'm in that "if they don't release a fix for this that I can run, I'm not buying another iPod ever" territory. related link We are using a self-signed cert to use on our source control setup. I install the certificate manually into the trusted root folder and it works for between thirty minutes...
I mentioned a few weeks back that I was dropping as many distracting things from my life as to better concentrate and focus on building this startup. The good news is I've doing much better on that front. I've been writing code again which has been doubly challenging on the focus front. The bad news is that this intensity means that I'm blogging less. Just a few quick observations on the state of web development in 2007. Things have come a long way since the web 1.0 days We made the decision to go with SubSonic...