Not Just Pretty Pictures

April 10th, 2010
Ancient British Language Discovered: Pictish Symbols are Scotland's Hieroglyphs

New research has shown that the symbols used by the ancient Picts were an actual written language - not symbology.

Spain 2009

January 4th, 2010

We spent most of December in Spain and had a great time. See all the photos here.

Dylan

July 9th, 2007

Today my son Dylan is 1 week old. It’s been an amazing experience so far and I’m sure it will only get better as he becomes more interactive. This is the first time I’ve had any time to sit down and catch up on email, blogs, programming, etc. He’s in my lap now, and I’ve been working with him in the crook of my arm for the last two hours. It’s surprisingly easy to do while he’s still small and sleeps most of the time!

Dylan at 1 day old:

Dylan - 1 day old

Going Nowhere for RailsConf 2007

February 2nd, 2007
RailsConf

Registration just opened a couple of hours ago. This year the registration fee is higher and the venue is a lot larger so it probably won’t sell out as quickly as last year. But, if you want to go, I would sign up soon. I already did.

Updates:

10 month old MacBook Pro needs a good home

January 11th, 2007

I had to send my MacBook Pro in to repair a failing fan this week. Since it’s rather difficult for me to earn an income with no development machine, I bought one of the new MacBook Pro’s to replace it.

I’ll be selling the old one as soon as it comes back. It’s an original 15” MacBook Pro running at 2.0GHz with 2GB of RAM and the 100GB hard drive. It’s 10 months old, so it has over 2 years left on the AppleCare warranty. Make me an offer if you’re interested in buying it. Serious offers only please. If I don’t get any acceptable offers by next week, I’ll put it up for sale on ebay.

Update: The MBP just arrived back from Apple and the fan has been fixed. They also replaced the new top assembly in order to fix a “crunchy” trackpad button. This means that, while the keyboard is not new and has had my grubby fingers all over it, the area where your delicate hands rest is beautiful virgin aluminum.