http://curiouscreature.net/blog because the world is an interesting place... Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:56:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whether you liked the man or not he was an icon. Odd to believe he's gone but I hope he's found peace finally. http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/06/25/michael-jackson-dead-at-50/ Is it just me or is it odd that Iranian police have shields and vests that say "police" in English? I know the historic influence of the British but it still seems odd now. Photos courtesy of andrewsullivan.com http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/06/24/what-is-wrong-with-this-picture/ Update:  Here is a fantastic example of someone who has completely gone off the rails with respect to Flash... Wow...nothing generates conversation in the tech industry like Adobe Flash. In just the past couple of days I've read articles about how HTML5 might be a 'Flash killer' along with ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/06/23/flash-whats-all-the-fuss-over/ At what point does a person stop, look at their life, see how many precious minutes have been wasted on trivial things, and say "enough is enough"? That's where I find myself right now. A recent conversation with a friend really tripped me up. It started out innocently enough basically as ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/06/21/life-lessons-on-summer-solstice/ Happy to say that with minimal fuss I was able to get the newest release of Ubuntu Desktop, 9.04, running on VMWare Fusion on my Mac.   Five easy steps: Follow this blog post for the install (he also links to the bits I am here) - but don't worry about his ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/05/01/ubuntu-904-on-vmware-fusion-204/ AT&T 2nd level support really came through for me.  After writing here about having my connectivity problems return and getting in touch with AT&T tech support I can happily report that I am now routinely getting 900kbps (on average) at my office.   There was a problem with a tower in ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/05/01/iphone-3g-connectivity-problem-it-was-a-tower/ Update: Problem solved! Awhile back I wrote about having found a solution for the data connectivity issues that were plauging my iPhone in 3G mode.  At the time a call to AT&T Tech Support made my reset my network settings which appeared to clear up the issues, and it did help....for ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/04/23/iphone-3g-data-connectivity-problemstheyre-back/ The MacHeist 3 bundle looks fantastic but I think they're unlock priorities are off. Why was BoinxTV the first unlock level instead of The Hit List and Espresso? Those two applications certainly would have a wider audience than BoinxTV. Hopefully MacHeist 3 will sell ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/04/05/macheist-3-boinxtv-instead-of-espresso-and-the-hit-list/ Last week I ran into an odd situation with our HTML output from JasperReports in Internet Explorer 7.  All text, link or otherwise,  was being underlined and I'm not really sure of the root cause other than it would appear we ran into a CSS rendering bug.   The same thing ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/04/02/jasperreports-underlining-all-text-in-html-reports-in-internet-explorer/ I obsessively read lifehacking blogs.  I've been slowly weaning myself from them but the last frontier I've yet to conquer is personal finance blogs.  I still read those obsessively looking for nuggets of information that I might apply to my own life.   If only I could find that one ... http://curiouscreature.net/blog/2009/04/01/personal-finance-blogs-when-is-too-much-of-a-good-thing/