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I was surfing the web looking for dumb stuff and ran across the Brawndo site. Noticing that a new logo was available, I quickly downloaded it and observed that the Dock proceeded to crash, restart, crash, restart, and so on. Thinking it was just another temporary “Leopard has gone batshit insane” moment (I’ve experienced more [...]

Keep your eyes on http://changesapp.com/ for more news. I’ll be posting details on how to get your piece of the beta action soon.

First, I apologize to anyone still reading my blog. I haven’t fallen off the face of the Earth, I’ve just been incredibly busy working on my next app. I should have some news very soon, with a public beta program in December. If you’re interested in participating in this beta, please send an email to [...]

The web, in its current form, is boring. Dress it up any way you want to, Web 2.0, 3.0, AJAX, etc. Blah.
Intro
Ironically, this train of thought began when I read a “tweet” by Buzz Anderson, a well-known Mac developer and blogger in his own right:
Amazed at the extent to which Jonathan Grubb’s “8 ways I’m [...]

You might notice a new toy in the sidebar. I replaced the default WordPress search tool with the Lijit Wijit, a cool little utility which allows my readers to search not only my blog, but the other elements of my online “presence”, such as my delicious links, my facebook account, etc. Any feedback, comments, etc. [...]

Captain Joshua Steele lost his life on Father’s Day, June 17th, 2007. He was my fraternity brother at the Gamma Lambda Chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity in Rolla and a dear friend. I remember him as a gentle soul, devoted to his faith, his family, his country, and his brothers. I will understate [...]

I’m on the “downward slope” of my research project and am beginning the final testing/writing phase of my MS thesis in Computer Science. I’ve been fighting the effects of Nagle’s algorithm for months now without knowing it, wondering why these tiny messages I was attempting to send via TCP/IP sockets were taking so long to [...]

We were all told that there could only be one winner in the Battle Royale pitting web apps against desktop apps. That argument was flawed, perhaps fatally flawed, and Brent Simmons nails the reason why in his blog post “The end of ‘desktop vs. web apps’”. Of course, this builds on the theme from last [...]

Test BlogMate Post
I thought I’d give Todd Ditchendorf’s blogging plugin for TextMate a try. It’s pretty neat, if a bit on the Spartan side.

The Good:

Aaron Hillegass’s Talk on Solving “Real Problems” - My thoughts on this: Do we really need another blinged-out CD burning app?. How about solving some real problems, like law/medical/business problems???
Jak’s Tap - Great night, lots of booze and camaraderie.
Talking about Needed Community Projects - Apple isn’t going to help us here. Some serious love [...]