Charismatic Dog

Gold Star or All the Tea?

Drew — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:51:55 +0000

I asked this question on facebook this afternoon: ‘gold star’ or ‘all the tea’?

In some further detail the above are band name ideas.

All the Tea is Jaysen’s contribution and is short for “all the tea in China“. It has a nice sound to it and a pretty good Family Guy quote:

“Hello, China? I have something you may want. But it’s gonna cost you. That’s right. All the tea.”

- Peter Griffin, Family Guy Season 2, Episode 8 I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar

Gold Star is my idea and it comes complete with logo and ready made materials such as those little gold sticker packs — anyone remember getting a gold star for doing their homework? Of course I also recall an episode of Webster where he got gold stars for every night he didn’t wet his bed. Might not want to mention that one too much at shows…

If Yen would allow it, I’d totally go for “Spy Rock”. We should ask him.

Thanks Codeweavers!

Drew — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:33:46 +0000

I get that this it’s mostly for fun at this point but I can still appreciate the good folks over at Codeweavers releasing a port of Google Chromium for the rest of us to enjoy.

What am I supposed to do with this?

Drew — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:28:05 +0000

Not to get all religious on my essentially non-existstant audience, but I sometimes find myself asking the Good Lord to point me where I belong. In the past I’ve then seen some sign or signs that help me decide what my choice will be.

This time around I thought I’d had two clear signs stacked on each other only to have one flip on me.

The question is: does a band getting its act together outweigh a dept coming apart at the seems?

Building Chrome

Drew — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:07:45 +0000

Just for fun I’ve started checking out Google Chrome from their dev site. I’m not up on what the latest build size is for the WebKit nightlies but 254MB and climbing seems large to me. Again, not really my field so I’m just guessing. Also why is cygwin in there? You know what. Screw it. Nice work Google. My favorite quote reading down a bit on the page is:

Currently, the Mac group is focusing on the testing harness, TestShell. The browser UI layer is not yet being worked on. We plan to start after getting the harness fully operational and better understand how to adapt Chromium’s architectural requirements to Mac OS X.

I suppose I know a little how the khtml folks felt about Safari back in the day. Hopefully Google’s use of WebKit will eventually turn around the same way Apple’s use of khtml is looking to turn around now. In the meantime I have to say that Google is not really challenging Microsoft by making a browser that’s glued to Windows.

John McCain’s VP Speech

Drew — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:25:57 +0000

Can I just say that listening to John McCain’s intro to his vp pick, it sounds like he’s reading a screed against himself and his party. I’m glad he agrees it’s time for someone to start turning around the failed policies of the past. Too bad he doesn’t get the part that he’s not the person to do it. Also funny that his VP pick’s bio sounds like a democrat’s. There were also some funny bits in his relating her domestic priorities to women’s suffrage, but he is 72.

Words of Wisdom filtered through Tim Bray

Drew — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:52:28 +0000

Tim Bray wrote a nice piece on allowing yourself time to rewrite your first crack at a program. I couldn’t agree more. Too bad it’s so hard for most of us to get in that mind set. His central quote is this little gem from Fred Brooks.

“Where a new system concept or new technology is used, one has to build a system to throw away, for even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.”

- Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man Month

Looks like I may need to pick that one up now.

If you only had a mustache

Drew — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:17:21 +0000

Alas a handle bar like this is too good to last…

My lovely wife might disagree about the good part.

Some notes on AD/OD resources

Drew — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:43:09 +0000

Apple’s Docs on writing an OD Plugin
The example DS plugin in Apple’s dev tools is a Kerberos plugin
The LDAPv3 plugin is open source (hurray)
The Active Directory plugin is not (wtf)

So long old friend

Drew — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:22:09 +0000

Almost fifteen years ago my sister and mom found a cute puppy to bring home as a birthday present for my Dad. He named the dog Abbey. I’m pretty sure he was ready to give her back a month later when she ate the bottoms off of the pants of his best suit. Somehow she stayed with us another 14 years. This summer Abbey began having seizures. Last night after her last one she was no longer able to stand under her own strength. She wouldn’t eat or drink. This morning, before taking her last trip to the vet, she drank some water out of my hand–the only time we were able to coax her to drink. The first photo below is from a party a month ago. The second photo is from this morning.

You’re a good dog Abbey. Wherever you are.

Angie’s Birthday

Drew — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:18:34 +0000

As noted on the waste of face, I had dinner tonight with not one, but four lovely ladies. Since the loveliest of them is my wife and she wanted access to photos on the internets I present said photos to you now:

My wife would be the pretty girl I’m smooching. The birthday girl would be her good friend Angie.

Followup note: I had a remarkably tough time getting this posted and working with lightbox. So it goes.