Archive for April, 2008

Netflix promo (again)

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

From an email today:

Dear James,
We’re offering you a special opportunity to give your friends and family one month of Netflix service for FREE - that’s twice the length of our regular free trial!
When they redeem their free trial, you’ll get a bonus rental (up to 5 bonus vouchers per member)* at no additional charge. This [...]

TRS-80, Model III

Monday, April 28th, 2008

I hadn’t done an old-school computers wallpaper in a while, so I threw together this one honoring the computer I learned to program on in high school, the TRS-80 Model III:

Some details from old-computers.com and Wikipedia. If you want to get a hands-on appreciation for this one (or most of the others in the [...]

Happy Birthday, White Bob

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

White Bob is 17 today:

New Haden pix

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Haden is three months old, so we had some new pix taken and uploaded some others that had been sitting around. They’ve all been added to his photoset on Flickr.

Friday Flash Fun (on Thursday, no less): Audiotool

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Really, words can’t describe how cool Audiotool is. Kiss your week goodbye and get back with your old-school electronica self. At your disposal are emulations of a TR-909, two TB-303s, five stop-box effects, and a 12-channel mixer. Patching and routing is entirely up to you. There are buttons to push, knobs [...]

Google App Engine lands

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Google App Engine lands. It lets you develop and share web apps and is the same engine that runs Google’s own. It runs on Python (and Django templates). Curious? Watch Google’s developer Bret Slatkin code up a guestbook demo at the speed of thought.

Tracks project releases version 1.5

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Tracks is a great web-based (Ruby on Rails powered) application for managing Getting Things Done. I’ve using Tracks for about a year now. I’m currently running one of the development snapshots, so I’ll probably set up the new version and see what made the final cut.

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