Panasonic Youth rob sanheim writes about software, business, ruby, music, stuff and things

If you think Huddle is ripping off Campfire

…then you haven’t seen mIRC, an irc client app that has been around for years:

See anything familiar in the screen shot above?
Tabs on the top, list of participants in the right hand pane, and chat in the main window. Change the font to Lucida Grande 12 pt and put in a browser and you […]

Productivity Talk abstract and resources

Thanks to everyone who came out to Raleigh.rb last night for my talk. You can hear the talk (mp3 ~25 mb) thanks to Matthew Bass. The sound quality is decent considering it was just recording right into his macbook.
I’ve posted more details from the talk, the abstract, and references (books, tools, etc) at […]

I Can Has Productivity?

I’ll be speaking at Raleigh.rb tomorrow on Productivity, Ruby, and how to get more stuff done. Spend more time programming and less time reading about programming (or reading PerezHilton, if thats your poison).
If you are in the area you should come out and say hi. Productivity is serious business.

Om nom nom nom

Mila a week ago, shortly after getting her second tooth…

untitled

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison
without formulating any charge known to the law, and
particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers,
is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation
of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
- Winston Churchill, November 21, 1943

Except as provided in section 1005 of the […]

How I Spent My Christmas Vacation

I recently got back from a very relaxing two weeks in Wisconsin, for a very white Christmas and some good family time. Nothing quite like a little red wine, music, and coding by the fire:

No big resolutions for the new year, maybe some small personal goals I’ll be working on. I’d like to […]

I can has laptops?

(not our dog - found by my wife while randomly surfing flickr)

Creating a Static Loopback Address to use in VMWare

The problem: you want to be able to always use the same address in VMWare Fusion for your local Mac web server(s), to test IE6 and IE7 with apps as you dev locally. You normally connect via DHCP, so you can’t depend on your IP address being constant. You can’t use localhost or […]

Nothing to it but to do it

A guy in college I knew had a catch phrase he would say often, to the point of annoyance. Its stuck with me since then, and rings true all the time:

Nothing to it but to do it

Of course, I remember him saying this most often when embarking on a beer run, but thats […]

iPhone price whining

I find it strange that Russ is complaining about today’s iPhone price drop of $200. Russ is knows how fast the mobile market moves, so he should know better. He says:
Happily screwing the early adopters and rewarding the laggards is something only Apple can do with a smile, no?
No, actually, its pretty much […]