Archive for the 'Me' Category

Neil Young, Trans Tour

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I wish I could find the source of this footage.

Posts From The Past

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

I rarely read my archives but my nostalgia kicked in as the blog recently hit two years of age. Here are some of my favorites: Nov, 2005: I evaluated the cost of financing versus leasing a car. Aug, 2006: I argued that the economy at large was threatened by the housing bubble. Dec, 2006: I explained [...]

Suddenly, I Feel 12 Years Old Again

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Thanks Wii!

The Art of Resume Writing for Software Developers

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

There is no shortage of advice available to guide you in writing a resume. I’m going to pollute those waters a bit more and lend my advice which is targeted at software developers. It’s fairly easy for an intelligent person with a bit of work experience to write a mediocre resume: insert contact info, insert previous [...]

Mii

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Vanity Search

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

I told someone the other day that they could Google me and I’d show up. Today, I tried that and it didn’t work. Googling ‘Aaron Evans‘ shows no sign of aarone.org. I’m still in their index; just search for aarone.org and this site shows up. I’ve seen Google leave me out [...]

Markdown, TextMate, and WordPress

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

This blog uses WordPress for its backend. Until today, I was using ecto to publish my posts and formatting my posts using HTML. In general, it works ok. For the sake of change, I decided this morning to try a new blogging workflow: Format posts in Markdown Write posts using TextMate Keep WordPress as my [...]

libicucore on Mac OS X

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Mac OS X 10.4 includes the ICU library but no simple way to actually use it. ICU is an open source Unicode library developed by IBM for Unicode and Locale-dependent functionality. Apple provides the library (/usr/lib/libicucore.dylib) in a standard Mac OS X installation but no headers to compile against the library. [...]

now hosted by TextDrive

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

aarone.org is now hosted by TextDrive. I’m so happy with this web host. Here are the features that appeal to me: WebDAV access subversion hosting ssh/sftp access ability to create users with restricted privileges support for trac webdav access iCal hosting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and BerkeleyDB support much more… I’m sold.

Reflections on Wintel from a Mac user

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

I got a Dell Latitude D820 for work. What follows is a fairly predictable rant from a longtime mac user. First, it doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would. Sure, it’s ugly but I get the impression Dell is really trying. However, many of the typical PC oddities are present on [...]