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After Apple’s awesome price cut announcements for low end iPods, I decided to order a 1GB nano for Caroline, and a shuffle for myself. Much to my surprise, they both arrived yesterday, way earlier than I expected.
When I cracked open the nano to load some music on it, I noticed that it was distinctly […]

I found a hack to fix Live+Press for WordPress 2.0. If you can see this in my LiveJournal, then it worked!

So there’s this new concept car called the Aptera. It’s a 2-seat, 3-wheel bio-deisel hybrid. It gets 330 mpg. Of course, there’s a drawback. The thing is tiny. It would get run over by an SUV and they wouldn’t even notice. So it will never happen, but there’s a […]

I figured out how to share cookieless session data accross ASP.NET applications today. Here’s a little background:
I’ve got a big client that is basically an umbrella for a number of different projects. Even though all of these projects are more or less seperate, their users are mostly the same. At one point, […]

In honor of Steve’s keynote this afternoon, I’ve finally chosen a name for my homebrew laptop: The HackBook Pro. I’ll be setting up a page for the project soon, at hackbookpro.com. I also went ahead and snagged hackbook.net and hackbook.org, but hackbook.com was taken already.

We’ve got a project where we need to send a text file export to the user. Since it’s all stored in the database, the simplest way is just to dump the data from the page. Unfortunately, if it’s a knowe MIME type, like a text file or pdf, teh browser opens it internally. […]

Sometimes (who am I kidding, most of the time) when we install a new VS.NET instance on a dev box, we get this error:
Visual Studio .NET has detected that the specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.NET Web applications or services.
The proper way to solve this […]

I went to the hardware store last night, and walked out with a brand new Dremel and 24′ of aluminum L-struts. Tonight, I’ll cut it up and start fabricating the frame for the homebrew laptop case.
I think I can fit it all into a 3″ deep case if I do a little trickery. […]

I’ve been installing gentoo on the basic setup. The case is temorary, because it’s a bit too small, but it serves to hold things together for the moment, while I get things set up and wait to get all the parts together.
Pictures here.
Full setupFront shotNot much to it, is there? 

We pushed an ASP.NET project up to our staging server the other day, and saw the strangest thing. The application worked perfectly fine, except it wasn’t picking up the CSS or any of the images. My first inclination was that we were using absolute URLs, but verified that they were in fact relative.
The […]