http://lambie.org The life of a software developer that likes Brazilian jiu jitsu, Lego, comics, helicopters and video games. Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:28:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I type my MacBook Pro is downloading and compiling the necessary source code for ImageMagick. I'm building some Ruby on Rails-based software that requires file uploads and I'm using MacPorts to install the necessary code. My processor is getting a chance to stretch its legs. At home I'm ripping and encoding ... http://lambie.org/2008/07/31/crank-that-cpu-like-a-soulja-boy/ Q: What's the hardest part about rollerblading? A: Telling your parents you're gay. http://lambie.org/2008/07/28/ive-been-saying-it-for-years/ We got a new Transformers. Indiana Jones came back. They're currently filming G.I. Joe as a feature length film. Now I hear that Top Gun might be getting a sequel. Today may well be the happiest day of my life. http://lambie.org/2008/07/24/heading-for-the-90s-living-in-the-wild-wild-west/ Yesterday it filtered through that Wordpress had released an iPhone application. This is me testing it out. So far my only compliant is that an ampersand is not rendered correctly in category list, but that's obviously easy enough for them to fix in v1.1. I tried blogging using Safari on the ... http://lambie.org/2008/07/24/wordpress-app-now-available/ This afternoon I picked up a latte from Epic on the way through West Perth. I was pretty late getting into the office today and really missed my caffeine hit. Ever since Epic was featured on Today Tonight a few weeks back they've been consistently busy, even during periods where you'd expect the ... http://lambie.org/2008/07/21/whats-yellow-and-sits-in-the-corner/ I had need to reboot our home server last night and when he back back up X was broken. It turns out it's a known issue and creating some symlinks fixed it. Thankfully I had the iPhone so I could browse the web and find the solution easy enough. I leave ... http://lambie.org/2008/07/15/recent-upgrades-break-x-flash/ My brother doesn't use his laptop that much, mostly because it's old and slow and riddled with viruses. He has an old Toshiba Satellite A50, which has a capable 1.6GHz Pentium M processor and a crippling 256MB RAM. It has a disgusting keyboard and trackpad, and the screen only does 1024 x 768.  I ... http://lambie.org/2008/07/14/a-breath-of-new-life-into-an-old-body/ On Friday I bought an iPhone 3G. I was expecting Vodafone in the city mall to have sold out of their stock because their store was almost empty (of people) at about 1PM. It turned out that they had moved all of their 16GB units but had plenty of the ... http://lambie.org/2008/07/13/48-hours-with-the-iphone-3g/ A candidate the people of America can get behind: Cobra Commander '08! At least you know he'd be happy to lead your country to war... just like your current president. This ties in nicely with the great news that IDW has picked up the G.I. Joe comic book license and will ... http://lambie.org/2008/07/13/vote-one-cobra-commander/ Yesterday my Ruby t-shirts arrived at the office but they were put in the wrong mailbox so I didn't get them until this morning. I bought them from RubyRags about two weeks ago.   Now I just need to have a nerd-occasion to wear them. Like lunch. http://lambie.org/2008/07/10/ruby-makes-me-happy/