Showing items from ego

Software Design Principals - For Users

I’ve been chewing on this since the latest Android update hit Jessica and my phones, and I posted about it here.  Basically, software design has gotten crazy over the last few years.  With technology going mainstream, and most people carrying computers in their pockets in the form of a smartphone, software design is much less of an art form than a race.  The problem as I see it, though, is they don’t know what they’re racing towards, other than to be first.  There is nothing wrong with that, either.  Though sometimes I wish developers could be just a bit more altruistic when they make their choices.

Continue Reading

Open Source and other nuggets

The silence for the last few months has been because my life got crazy.  I’ve been spending a lot of time working and what hasn’t been working has been spent in preparation for our new baby.  Yes, thats right, baby.  In 2006 we were told by a fertility doctor that we would likely never have kids.  We didn’t figure it out until less than a week before Jessica entered the second trimester.  So thats been consuming all of my weekends getting the nursery (strange calling it that) and the rest of the house ready for the new baby.

Continue Reading

First update of 2009

Well, the last two years have been…..Interesting.

This is just a quick update to give the site a recent post and start to get back into the whole blogging thing again.  Things have been extremely hectic for the last two years.  Some good things have happened, some bad, but mostly just busy.  I haven’t wanted to spend much of my “off-time” behind the computer, but things are settling down a bit and I find myself wanting to post more.

Continue Reading

Frivolous Litigation

From Wikipedia on Frivolous litigation there is a great quote from Lawyer Danial B. Evans:

[W]hen a judge calls an argument “ridiculous” or “frivolous,” it is absolutely the worst thing the judge could say. It means that the person arguing the position has absolutely no idea of what he is doing, and has completely wasted everyone’s time. It doesn’t mean that the case wasn’t well argued, or that judge simply decided for the other side, it means that there was no other side. The argument was absolutely, positively, incompetent. The judge is not telling you that you were “wrong.” The judge is telling you that you are out of your mind.

Continue Reading

Pumpkin Carving 2007

So its that time of year again. The air is crisp, the days are much shorter, and the grass in the back yard is covered in leaves from the neighbor’s trees. Tonight shivering street urchins will be knocking at the door in a variety of costumes begging for candy. My candy. Not yours. Can’t have. Okay, fine, you can have one. Damn kids. And get off my lawn!

Continue Reading

Halloween 2006, Better Late Than Never

After Jessica saw what I had posted today, we had the following IM conversation:

[11:55:49 AM] <Truffle> there’s a gnome in the first set of pics [11:56:05 AM] <gottafixthat> LOL. Of course there is. [11:56:12 AM] <Truffle> gack! [11:56:18 AM] <gottafixthat> [11:56:20 AM] <Truffle> oh, and I’m mad at you [11:56:24 AM] <gottafixthat> Why? [11:56:33 AM] <Truffle> you never posted the second pumpkin I did [11:56:37 AM] <gottafixthat> I suck

Continue Reading