http://www.blizzo.com Randomness for you since 1976 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:50:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In general, I find use of the word "bitchin" to be almost inexcusable. The sad fact is, however, that there aren't very many good rhymes for "kitchen", and I'm in a rhyming mood. At any rate, we decided to repain the kitchen, and quickly settled on a nice ... http://www.blizzo.com/bitchin-kitchen-new-paint-job/ So one latest OS X annoyance that I actually stumbled across the solution for. At work I hook up an external monitor to my MacBook Pro, and usually keep all my terminal windows on that one. When I leave, I try to remember to unplug the monitor before ... http://www.blizzo.com/os-x-tip-recover-windows-from-external-monitor/ So Apple has released their new OS, Snow Leopard, and this is what the Apple homepage looks like: [caption id="attachment_261" align="alignnone" width="435" caption="Poor, poor Snow Leopard..."][/caption] I imagine this leopard, chillin, enjoying a nice snowy day, when along comes an Apple photo crew. *FWAP*, they nail him in the head with a snowball, ... http://www.blizzo.com/poor-poor-snow-leopard/ RFS stands for "Request For Suggestions".  I'm not sure whether I made that up or absorbed it osmosis like from something I read. For those of you not in the know, I am soon going to be taking on a huge home remodel project, necessitated by some structural problems we are ... http://www.blizzo.com/rfs-good-home-designremodel-blogs/ I wasted a chunk of time running in circles over this issue.  I had assumed that when I loaded the fixtures into my database via 'rake db:fixtrues:load' or 'rake spec:db:fixtures:load' in Ruby on Rails that it was blowing away all the data in all of my tables before creating records. ... http://www.blizzo.com/rails-gotcha-regarding-test-fixtures/ You can't turn around lately without hearing about the latest craze on facebook: 25 Random Things.  The premise is, you put up 25 random and usually useless things about yourself, and then "tag" a bunch of people so that they can come read it and praise you for the witty ... http://www.blizzo.com/facebook-now-allowing-spam/ Today we deployed the latest version of our product OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) and it includes a brand new look and feel.  The design was truly done by concensus with our entire engineering department, and it came out better than anything I think I could have done in isolation. I used a ... http://www.blizzo.com/new-look-for-olex/ After several hours of mashing the refresh button in Firefox, I was finally able to get to the G1 preorder form and place mine.  On October 22nd, I will be the proud owner of a G1, the first Android powered smart phone.  The phone has a touchscreen interface similar to ... http://www.blizzo.com/im-going-to-be-an-android/ I saw this new Microsoft commercial the other day, and I have to say I think it's brilliant for the following reasons: It shines light on the fact that Apple is casting an unfair stereotype of PC users It gives existing Microsoft costumers a group of people they can feel proud identifying ... http://www.blizzo.com/review-im-a-pc-commercial-by-microsoft/ Some of you may be aware that my cat, Oliver, went missing a while back.  It has been two months now, and so I have decided it is time to say goodbye.  Oliver was the first pet that was truely my own.  We adopted he and his sister, Twist, from ... http://www.blizzo.com/goodbye-oliver/