Vermyndax's Lair

This is a crosspost from The Cat Convention.

All I can say is… times are definitely changing.

Here’s an interesting article on sleep.

Tonight I was browsing through my normal websites with Safari on my Mac when suddenly, this window took over my entire browsing experience (click to go full screen on it).

Have you heard of Yammer?

I was reading the blog post over at Microsoft from the fellow… Oh, I forget his name already.

Guess who didn’t get a ticket?

Really, Nintendo?

There’s nothing fair about Fair Isaac anyway. 5 Red Tape Traps: Getting a credit score – The Red Tape Chronicles – msnbc.com: “” (Via MSNBC)

I ran across this article this morning.

I’m guessing from the amount of hits on the Drobo article from 2009 that people are still having problems with Drobos rebuilding the array in a decent amount of time.

It just occurred to me while I was visiting the Thinking Chamber earlier today: If the big three tech companies were characters in Back to the Future, they would be… Microsoft == Biff Apple == Marty McFly Google == Doc Brown

Not much to blog about today.

Tonight the Christmas tree was finally put back in the shed.

On a Windows machine, the Steam application allows you to relocate the “SteamApps” folder to a different drive.

It’s 2011.

It sure is quiet in here.

For some bizarre reason, the thought at the top of my head last night at bedtime was… “I wonder if sometimes… open source developers deliberately code bugs or withhold fixes for financial gain?”

Apple‘s Snow Leopard Server product is one lovely implementation of UNIX.

I am one of the aspiring new media yahoos that bought into the fever gripping folks everywhere – the Drobo (a play on words for “data robotics.”)

For those of you who follow my adventures here, but not necessarily my adventures over there, you should be aware that we’ve posted NO CARRIER Episode #11.

Tony Maro, the CIO of Evrichart (and also my boss from my old job prior to NASA) was interviewed by ZDNet!

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com">Daylife</a> </dd> </dl> One of the industry buzzwords that…

Are you curious about the hard stats of messages running around your organization?

The crops of our quiet labor are starting to bear fruit.

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com">CrunchBase</a> </dd> </dl> A coworker sent this along.

If you’re having stupid amounts of trouble with your plugins loading in Safari 4 on Snow Leopard, go to your Finder and open /Applications.

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com">CrunchBase</a> </dd> </dl> At WWDC 2009, I stood up in a session on Snow Leopard server and lightly rattled Apple‘s cage about its

I don’t know who this guy is or what he’s up to, but this is one seriously inspirational chunk of digital video that I felt that I had to share.

Here’s a picture taken at Bridge Street in Huntsville, AL.

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com">CrunchBase</a> </dd> </dl> When NetNewsWire went with Google Reader syncing, the hair stood up on the back of my neck.

Twitter has given me a real problem.

I’m back from WWDC 2009.

The new film Terminator Salvation is not just bad… it’s absurd, ridiculous, boneheaded and an absolute atrocity.

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images">AFP/Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com">Daylife</a> </dd> </dl> FOREWARNING: SPOILERS.

There is a really disturbing trend developing in health care.

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/89665467@N00/3057326221">Fuschia Foot</a> via Flickr </dd> </dl> An old, old friend of mine runs the website Needcoffee.com.

Words cannot express the birthday present I was given today.

Today I turn 37 years of age.

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mobileme_Logo.png">Wikipedia</a> </dd> </dl> If you find that there’s an address book card out there that isn’t syncing w…

Hi, just dropping in from raiding the lands of healthy heroes and creamy young virgins to let you in on a quick Apple Mail tip.

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7992161@N04/546086117">tom ferris</a> via Flickr </dd> </dl> Apple finally announced the WWDC 2009 dates and they couldn’t have…

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image by <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com">Daylife</a> </dd> </dl> I love to travel, especially to poi…

<dd class="wp-caption-dd zemanta-img-attribution" style="font-size: 0.8em;"> Image via <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com">CrunchBase</a> </dd> </dl> Paul Thurrott posted a nice attaboy to the MSN folks today for releasing a wallpaper product that will…

Today I had the honor of putting together the first “real” video podcast for The DVD Marquee, a DVD/movie podcast site run by Jeffrey Rosado.

Just in case you’re ever wondering what can make a Mac user so annoyingly smug… as a relatively new Mac user (2+ years), I received the following message on Skype.

Thanks to this article, I’ve gotten the www.porkbuns.org site republished and going again.

I was really, really excited to try out iLife ’09, the successor to the really nice iLife ’08 suite.

This kind of bothers me.

(note: the following is a stream of consciousness post regarding some software requirements as i dream them up. if you are a developer and actually take up these requirements as the design for a software project, please let me know. if you are aware of a…