Reaction to the unveiling of the iPad
Here is what I think of the iPad: Apple probably thinks they have a demographic locked up with this, but the problem is that this isn’t a computer or a peripheral; it’s some weird middle ground (by Steve’s own admission. It’s designed to appeal to people who consume media gluttonously from the iTunes Store but [...]
Who is Ryan McKern?
Let’s take about 2 minutes and talk about the other Ryan McKerns people might be looking for.
The McKern family name isn’t especially prestigious, being best known as the surname of Uncle Leo (the best number two that number six ever confronted). But we’re not concerned with Leo McKern. We’re concerned with the traffic that funnels [...]
Megasus, or why aren’t you listening to this yet?
Little known fact: I love metal. Maybe not the metal that the crazy kids in black on black attire with stringy hair listen to, but metal none the less. Which is why it behoves me to point you to Megasus.
(Picture blatantly stolen from The Providence Daily Dose. Credit where credit is due.)
Self-hosted Mercurial repositories and you
I recent set up self-hosted Mercurial repository serving for some of the less-embarassing projects1 I’ve done (right now, my bash_profile and a scriptable wrapper around tar/bzip2/gzip) and got my hands dirty with mod_wsgi.
Of note is that while I know absolutely no Python, I had no problem getting everything up and running. That alone is a [...]
NNTP readers on OS X are built from failure
In the office where I work we use/maintain a newsgroup server with a variety of internal newsgroups where everything from items for sale to complaints and hassles are posted. Late last year I went pretty much all-Mac, all the time, with a Remote Desktop window connected to a Windows machine in the office which I [...]