Monthly Archives: September 2008

Google Calendar and external iCal feeds – DOA

I’ve been mucking around with adding my Remember the Milk lists as iCal event feeds to my Google Calendar account.  The idea of having tasks with due dates show up like “local” GCal events is great but it doesn’t work … Continue reading

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Oddities of running JasperReports with Weblogic 9.2 on Windows

I posted this on the JasperReports forums but wanted also to put it here in case it helps someone out (since I have my Java topic going to the Java Blogs aggregator. At work I am currently using Weblogic 9.2 … Continue reading

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Gotta have faith

After 25 years of being a Cub fan it’s hard to have faith at times   Oh how many times have I seen them totally melt down and blow a game. Tonight against the Mets I thought for sure in … Continue reading

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Why buying classical music online at eMusic.com stinks

My title is a bit harsh?  Maybe.  But consider how eMusic.com prices their tracks (and for a bit of point-counterpoint I include classicsonline.com. eMusic.com You pay a monthly fee and they have tiers which split based on the number of … Continue reading

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Corporate computer policies and GTD

What do you do when you can no longer use your computer platform of choice at work even when you’re more productive with it and are used to the tools available for it which are generally superior to the offerings … Continue reading

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iPhone OS 2.1 update working as I’d hoped

Apple promised quite a bit with the 2.1 release of the iPhone and quite frankly, as a very new user of the phone, I was hoping it was going to fix all of the issues I was having with my … Continue reading

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iTunes 8 – problems solved with latest download

I wanted to follow-up quickly on my other posts about the issues I was experiencing with iTunes 8 and my iPhone on Windows Vista.  The latest download  of iTunes which is still labeled 8.0.0.35, included a rolled-back driver, usbaapl.sys (1.29.0.0) … Continue reading

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Remembering 9/11/2001

There isn’t much to say really.   9/11/2001 was a day that anyone who was old enough to be aware of what was happening will never forget.    Every anniversary of that event I watch video of what happened that day to … Continue reading

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iTunes 8 on Windows Vista – yes there are problems

This is ridiculous.   Did Apple not do any testing on this product before releasing it into the wild?  Other websites are also reporting issues with iTunes 8 on Vista but thankfully I haven’t been having blue screens of death on … Continue reading

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Chrome is the new black? (Google Chrome that is)

“If JavaScript gets any faster, then developers will question if they should develop in Flash or (Microsoft’s) Silverlight (technologies),” – Marc Andreessen 9/9/08 That quote was talking about Chrome, which, if you’ve been reading any tech journalism as of late, … Continue reading

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