January 20, 2011
A long day
Good morning! I had a rough night of sleep and woke up a bit on the late side. After dropping the girls off at their schools, I swung over to Cafe on the Oval. I had missed dinner last night and breakfast this morning so I was eager for some good but fast served food. Had a smooth drive down to Boxborough afterwards, listening to BOL #1389 along the way. Somehow, although I wasn't in yesterday, I only have 49 emails to dig through. Hope to get back into serious test and debug today...
Facebook Terms of Service. Note item 4.7: "You will keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date". So if you think you'll evade Facebook's privacy abuses by providing false or inaccurate data, you are in violation of your agreement.
Mobile web dev's note: In December 2010, Opera Mini had over 85.5 million users. That's not chump change. (related link)
Laughing: Mark By Mark Zuckerberg - Fashion for men. ;-] Once in a while at work I'll wear a hoodie and joke that "I'm dressing for success ... like Mark Zuckerberg."
Via CSLewisDaily: We're not doubting that God will do the best for us, we're wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
Excellent response to the “but what about the life of the mother?” argument. (related link) The Catholic Church teaching really is pro choice, but probably not in the way you'd expect.
Just found TurnKeyLinux.org. A variety of CDs of Ubuntu bundled with common web application stacks pre-configured and ready to go: WordPress, Drupal, RubyOnRails, etc.
Via CurtJester: Looks like Obama's China policy is to take the carrot and the carrot approach.
Via QCT: We are pleased to announce that Snapdragon has been nominated for Best Technology Breakthrough in the GSMA Global Mobile Awards.
Busy day at work. I missed lunch. Left the office late. Couldn't go to my class at Golds tonight because of it. Hopefully the things I submitted today straightened out issues we were dealing with today. As you can imagine, I'm hungry and Michelle is re-heating me some dinner. An appliance guy came to the house earlier today to replace the ignitor on our oven. It finally failed after all these years.
Looking at the old ignitor for our oven. Snapshot to follow... I had presumed the over ignitor was a spark gap type, like what is used with the burners on top. Instead it's more of a heater element like that used on our wood stoves to light them in the morning.
Mmmm. After missing lunch today, Michelle's dinner, loaded with comfort food, really hit the spot! Meat loaf & gravy, corn, mashed potatoes, corn bread, flavored rice.
Timothy and I gutted open the boys' three old Nintendo DS's and replaced their aging batteries. Hopefully they'll hold a charge better now. The downside is that the DS comes back on as though you'd just bought it at the store. It depends on a charge to keep its basic settings like user name, date, screen calibration, etc.
Snapshots I took today:
