October 2007 Thirty-two posts

• 18-Oct-2007

  
  My Commute Can Be Pretty On Las Virgenes through the canyons as I am coming into Malibu.

  malibuphotos
• 18-Oct-2007

  
  I’m sure it’s for a good cause via Uncle Eddy Fun things I noted recently, Neil joined my MyBlogLog (we’re up to 1 member, yay!), and also that he had mentioned me in a blog post but I had missed it. Kind words. Neil’s a very funny writer. Headed to work now. Yesterday was good. Hoping for likewise today.

  comicsfunny
• 17-Oct-2007

  
  Misc and Max Some strangeness afoot. Police apparently came in the house while I was in the tub and looked around looking for some dude (Ryan Reynolds?). They didn’t bug me. Also, my Windows 2003 and my iTunes and my old 1GB iPod Shuffle are not playing well. Jerks. Yuck! I tried the iPod Reset Utility, I tried...

  funnygabe and maxinternetipodvideowindowszappa
• 16-Oct-2007
  Mom’s Cancer News So I mentioned yesterday, ever-so-briefly, that there was some news about the pathology report from my Mom’s kidney, which was removed. This morning my father sent me an updated and elaborated diagnosis, and more information. This may prove useful to someone, and is definitely useful to family and friends who would like an update. First...

  cancerhealthmom
• 16-Oct-2007
  Play Misc-y for Me I’ve been reading and listening to lots about animation, and one of the more fun things has been Spline Cast, a podcast about 3-D animation. My favorite podcast right now is Dave Ramsey’s 1 hour version of his show. Don’t bother with the 3-hour version, it’s not really free. My previous favorite podcast is Harry...

  hcijavascriptmiscmusicpodcastsocial-softwarevideoswebdev
• 15-Oct-2007
  Reader Subscription Stats are Complicated Check out more information over at the FeedBurner Blog: Burning Questions • Google Reader Subscription Stats and FeedBurner I don’t pay too much attention to stats, but I do watch for folks coming in through referring links. FeedBurner is pretty cool, I use the FeedSmith plugin referenced. Valleywag’s take is typically cynical.

  statisticswebdev
• 15-Oct-2007
  Good Weekend It was a good weekend. Pumpkin pie. Paychecks arrived on-time. Bills paid on-time. Leah‘s still back: awesome. Latest photos? Terrific. Heard good things from my sister by text message about the cytology of my Mom’s cancer. She continues to recover from her surgery. As Drudge would say… developing. Not looking forward to the traffic today...

  cancermiscvideos
• 15-Oct-2007
  .NET, Miguel de Icaza A few weeks ago Miguel de Icaza, the firebrand behing Mono, the open source implementation of Dot Net, posted a bit about the punditry about Microsoft’s decision to allow folks to look at the code behind Dot Net. Not exactly open sourcing it. Got that, he was talking about those talking about it:  A Journey...

  dot-netmicrosoftopen-source
• 14-Oct-2007

  
  Flowchart of the Day Over on Worse than Failure, there’s a thoughtful essay about the usual software is impossible: Avoiding Development Disasters. The graphic looks right to me. A dozen paths to failure. Success rare.

  programming
• 13-Oct-2007
  Required Viewing for the Music Business via Mark Evanier, Flo and Eddie, aka The Turtles, explain their storied relationships with lawsuits and bad managers: The music business is a cesspool, always has been. Sad.

  businessmusicvideo