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Mac modifier keys

Posting this here for my own use:

⌘/Apple/Command:
This is known as the “Command” key, as in “press Command-q to quit.” This can be used to access most major menu items by pressing the key combination listed next to those items in the menu.
There are several standard commands which are consistent across nearly all Mac applications, [...]


Guys Weekend

I flew down to Los Angeles last weekend to be with my dad and my brother as part of our first annual guys weekend. My brother picked me up at LAX on Friday night and we drove to Mojave to meet my dad who drove down from Mammoth. Saturday morning we got up and had [...]


October Books

I finished a couple good books this month, all of which I’d recommend:
· How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
· Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
· Status Anxiety
· The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
My yearly tally is over here.


JDJ: Mailets and Matchers

Remember back a couple months ago when I posted an article about using Apache James to implement VERP? Well, it actually did end up getting published in JDJ. If you subscribe to the magazine, you should have it in your hot little hands right now or you can visit the archives. If not, you’ll have [...]


New design

I got really bored with the old design of this site and all the cool kids seem to be using Wordpress these days so last weekend I exported all 900 or so entries from Movable Type and imported them into WordPress, installed the ScribbishWP Theme and wrote a servlet filter to map my /blog/year/month/day/entry_name.html Movable [...]


Wildfire Enterprise launches..

For the last couple weeks I’ve been working on the ‘Deep, Real-time Reporting’ features of Wildfire Enterprise, which officially launched today (if you’ve ever thought about messing around with instant messaging / XMPP / Jabber, I’d highly recommend checking it out and that’s the last corporate pitch you’ll hear out of me). Herewith (as [...]


New Job

On April 10th, 2006 I’ll be starting a new job at Jive Software in Portland, Oregon. According to Google Earth, Portland is about 2500 miles away from Mattapoisett as the crow flies so I hope you’ll understand if I don’t post here for the next couple weeks.


Kid Update

He’s 14 months old now and can’t get enough of his trucks book.

(photo source: joe cheng photography studios)


CIS 552: Database Design

I took the final exam today in my CIS 552 Database Design course. I think I did ok on the exam but more importantly, I learned a lot this semester. I think the main takeway from the course is that it helps to realize that a database application (meaning an application like MySQL, Oracle [...]


Thanksgiving

I think it was my friend David that pointed me to a blog called slacktivist, but I don’t remember when or how. Fred Clark, the author of that blog, recently attended the memorial service for his friend, Dwight Ozard, who passed away on November 14 and posted an excerpt from the program. I thought [...]


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