Archive for the 'Misc' Category

New Family Blog

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

We moved to Seattle and Season and I started blogging about family stuff now that we’re farther away from our families.

The Transition to Google Apps for all my Mail

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I recently purchased a Google Apps account so I could use GMail with my non-GMail address. In the process, I did the following:

created a Google Apps account for my domain (aarone.org), configured my domain host (GoDaddy) to send mail for my domain to GMail, transferred all messages from my old GMail account to the new GMail [...]

Java Literally Sucks

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

I use Java at my day job and I find it frustratingly verbose and confining. One thing that particularly bothers me is that I can’t easily represent literals.

Java adopted C’s convention for arrays:

int[] x = {1,2,3}

which work fine if I want to use arrays; but I rarely use arrays because [...]

Oskar and Mavis Play Tetherball

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

More Hillaryous Videos

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I take back all those things I said about Hillary being out of touch.

found at Fake Steve

HP LaserJet 1020 on Mac OS X

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

I just bought a new printer, an HP LaserJet 1020. I was surprised to find out just how affordable laser printers are (I spent $150). I read the reviews and although the printer is not officially supported on the Mac, various people stated that it’s possible to get it to work.

I bravely ordered the [...]

Nothing is Perfect

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

I sure wish this was released on an album:

Michael Dell in 2001

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

BusinessWeek, 2001

Q: What is the future of Apple Computer? A: Silicon Graphics. Q: That bad? A: Maybe it’s a little bit different. But if you look at proprietary computer companies, whether it’s Digital or Silicon Graphics (SGI ) or Apple (AAPL ), I think [...]

Blu-Ray or HD DVD

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Our Sony DVD player is aging and I’ve started toying with the idea of replacing it with an HD player. The obvious wrinkle is that there are two incompatible, competing formats for HD players and discs: Blu-Ray and HD DVD. I did some research and I believe HD DVD is going to win [...]

Thoughts on Twitter

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Twitter has officially taken off. Even I have a twitter page.

I think twitter really took off a few months ago. In my view, the turning point for twitter’s popularity was the 2007 SXSW Interactive Conference. This conference is a gathering of people who are on the cutting edge of technology [...]