http://davemclain.com my life dot com Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:10:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the most entertaining bugs I've ever witnessed is in the Caller ID system at the Austin Stone. I helped Doug roll out a voice over IP system when the church ran out of extensions on it's legacy system. One of the neat things we did is write a ... http://davemclain.com/archives/319 The previous owners of my little homestead were content to let the backyard (and front) grow as the plants saw fit, which is fine as a philosophy, but ends up with more chaos than I am apparently happy with. One of the results is that trees end up growing into ... http://davemclain.com/archives/315 http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/02/cisco-bakes-software-security-into-new-linksys-routers.ars Last week I was thinking/discussing with some people how there is a market for a router running custom firmware that monitors/restricts internet usage and has a user friendly web interface for a monthly fee. Guess Cisco was thinking and discussing that too. At least it was just in the idea phase. http://davemclain.com/archives/313 [caption id="attachment_307" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Snow on my car and house"][/caption] Austin got snow before Seattle did this year. (So did Houston and New Orleans) Now we just need another few days above 70 before Christmas and I'll be happy. http://davemclain.com/archives/306 Obligatory: That's what she said. I'm glad I'm done with this project because it was impossible to talk about it without getting those comments. I'm also glad because it looks freaking awesome. The craziest thing about this project is I wasn't planning on doing it in the first place. ... http://davemclain.com/archives/293 Today, I (finally) laid some tile in the guest bathroom. Multi-colored slate in a basic grid pattern. There's a part of me that wishes I had gone diagonal or used some smaller tiles, but my sister Susan pointed out to me that it's already very visually interesting with the different ... http://davemclain.com/archives/282 if (lastCall != nil && [lastCall timeIntervalSinceNow] < 300) { if ([cacheData valueForKey:scenario] == nil) return; //user double clicked update [self loadScenario:[cacheData valueForKey:scenario]]; return; ... http://davemclain.com/archives/280 Apparently, those durn Californians are so intent on making Texas like their old home they brang the earthquakes with 'em. http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Texas_Earthquake.html?imw=Y&plckCurrentPage=0&sid=sitelife.statesman.com. http://davemclain.com/archives/278 This was stolen from a hiring manager with Microsoft Office when I went through one of the strangest interview loops of my life. Maybe I'll talk about that another time, but suffice it to say that if another multinational technology company tries to hire me they shouldn't try to do ... http://davemclain.com/archives/269 Operating Systems used in the last two weeks: OS X (Leopard) Windows (XP) Linux (Ubuntu Silly Something) Programming Languages used in the last two weeks: Java Objective-C (iPhone) Python (dinky little script for Austin Stone, but still) PHP (ASCC again) Ruby VB.NET (sorta, was used while conducting an interview) I don't know what the cost in depth is when trying to ... http://davemclain.com/archives/267