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Posts from November 2007

Leopard Spaces

One thing that I have always loved about Unix is virtual desktops. For a developer screen real estate is paramount and in the absence of multiple monitors it is a life saver. In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger there was Desktop Manager which I used extensively and loved. It worked great! Now with Leopard virtual […]


Ironcoder 7

And they’re off… The seventh edition of Ironcoder has officially started. This go around the contest lasts a little over a week which is considerably longer than the usual weekend. The prize however, is absolutely grand: an 8GB iPod Touch! Judging is performed by the combined efforts of all participants in the contest which, in […]


Caldwell County Jail in Abstract

We recently took a trip out to Lockhart Texas for some of the incredible BBQ at Kreuz’s and while we were in town we took a tour of the Caldwell County Jail. The jail is an interesting historic site that was in operation up until a few decades ago. It turns out that it was […]


UPS Urgent Delivery! Yea, right….

I have to say that in this day and age I have come to rely on companies like FedEx and UPS to deliver items often purchased over the web. Occasionally, I use them in order to conduct business and it is with these deliveries that I most rely on them. Most of the time they […]