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This week I got a RaspberryPi to play around with at home. I found instructions to put the Raspbian image file onto the SD card that I bought using a article over at PenguinTutor.com. Got me up and going quick with a basic linux installation. I still have to go through and set up a firewall, but will do that later this week since this isn’t ( Read more... )

I have a love hate relationship with Symfony. The love started with Symfony 1.0, the hate started with the release of 1.2 Things that were simple and elegant in Symfony 1.0 became monsters in later versions of 1.x. I decided to give another PHP framework a try, but nothing was as elegant as what I had come to enjoy with Symfony 1.0. A few years ( Read more... )

Recently I had started a contract for a company who was doing a rebuild of one of their products. They had decided long before I had joined the team to use the CSS/Javascript development tools from released under the name Bootstrap. It was the first time I had heard of Bootstrap, and I have to say that as a person who can hardly draw a stick ( Read more... )

I am trying to figure out the best solution for calendaring for my wife and myself. Often she'll make plans, and tell me and well I won't put it in a calendar. I'll just forget about it. I don't make plans weeks in advance, I make them a few days in advance. I thought fine, I'll set up a google calendar we can share via iCal. I can set up my ( Read more... )

I've only used Paypal IPN a couple times. Both time were in systems where the IPN was already set up. It didn't take much work for me to actually do anything from there. I am working on a new WordPress module. Part of which includes functionality where I needed to do some paypal processing. While searching through the internet I found a lot ( Read more... )

I currently live in Japan. Most of my friends are back in the USA. Luckily I have the internet. If not for the Internet I think I’d go stir crazy, plus I have no idea what I’d do for work. Anyway, many of my friends and family back home have the latest iPhones. I too have the latest iPhone here in Japan, and as long as we are connected to ( Read more... )

This post has taken a while to come to a head. I try not to get into political conversations because when I do I get emotional. 20 years ago it was easy enough to stay away from but with the spawning of the internet age and social media it has been harder and harder not to be able to just get away from it.

Before the internet age it was easy. ( Read more... )

Tonight my wife asked me about pilates in the US, and some other thing called gyrotonics. She wanted to try them in the US. The reasoning being she felt that pilates and gyrotonic in Japan were not the same as in the US. She had seen this with ballet in Japan.

I went onto google and searched for gyrotonic and pilates in Boston to find out what ( Read more... )

For the last hour I have been playing around with "Chat Roulette". A website designed to randomly select a person on the site for you to chat with over video chat ( Read more... )