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My Dynamic Dilemma

For the past 8-9 years, Java has been my bread-and-butter programming language, and to this date it is the language I am most familiar with. However, for the past few years I have developed a growing interest in dynamic scripting languages, and Ruby in particular....

July 9, 2007 · 5 min · 924 words · DigitalHobbit

Social Networking Spree

Up till now I've never really gotten that much into social networking applications. I joined Tribe.net about 3 years ago but haven't really checked in for 2 years. I steered clear of MySpace so far......

July 5, 2007 · 1 min · 164 words · DigitalHobbit

AT&T is teh suck!

Last week I've had a real unfortunate experience with AT&T: Our phone line (which includes DSL) was down for a whole 4 days, from Monday morning to Friday morning. This is by far the most severe outage I have ever experienced, and suffice to say I am extremely annoyed with AT&T's ineptitude, and their obvious lack of concern for their customers....

June 24, 2007 · 2 min · 333 words · DigitalHobbit

No more CRTs in my house

Call me a late adopter, but I have finally gotten rid of all CRTs in my house (partially as a space saving measure in preparation for our upcoming move to a smaller house, although this may just be a subconscious way of justifying the expense ;) ). I replaced my 32" CRT TV with a 37" LCD TV and my 19" CRT computer monitor with a 22" widescreen LCD monitor....

June 24, 2007 · 2 min · 406 words · DigitalHobbit

Camino 1.5

Earlier this month, version 1.5 of the OSX Camino browser was released. Camino is based on the same Mozilla rendering engine as Firefox, but unlike Firefox, Camino behaves much more like a native OSX application, without a lot of the overhead (such as the XUL user interface) that Firefox brings with it. Ever since I started using the Mac, I've never been a big fan of Safari....

June 16, 2007 · 4 min · 684 words · DigitalHobbit