So I got an Oregon 450. A couple of nights ago, I go online to buy a city map for it. Great! Garmin allows you to buy the maps online and download it for instant installation! Awesome!
Not so much. I go through the process and I get an error at [...]

Let’s start from the beginning.
There’s this server. It’s running CentOS 5.3 and Subversion. Sometimes I love CentOS, sometimes I hate it. Today has been one of those days that I hate it because CentOS is notoriously conservative. The officially blessed and installed version of Subversion for CentOS 5.3 is 1.4.2. [...]

For the time being. With 3 days left on my warranty, Acer went ahead and replaced the machine.
What a horrible, horrible company with which to deal. First, their online serial number lookup system said that the machine was out of warranty. I tried to call and discovered that there are [...]

After twelve years, I’m leaving MacNexus and the schow@macnexus.org email address.
Long story short, don’t skimp on hosting services if you are a business. Don’t go for the cheap services like GoDaddy and Bluehost. They’re crap. You get what you pay for. They don’t actually expect you to use it. Once [...]

Daring Fireball is now blocking links from the much loathed DiggBar.
The DF post also explains how to block the DiggBar. Someone submitted it to Digg, and as of right now, the post has received 765 diggs. However, it never made the front page of Digg. In fact, it doesn’t even [...]

Are we living in 1999 again? Why does everyone need to put external links onto a damn frame? Digg’s now doing it.

Luckily, you can turn the thing off. My Account -> Settings -> View Preferences.

Unluckily, it means you need to be logged in. I can’t just pop into my non-default browser [...]

I took the PHP 5 Certification exam on Saturday. I passed. I did it because 1) I wanted to see if actually knew what I was talking about and 2) My life seemed a little empty without stressing for a midterm every few months.
There’s not that much detailed stories written about [...]

Search on Google for “iPhone Tattoo” and you get a bunch of hits for a product called iPhone Tattoo, but not tattoos of iPhones. Bummer.

There are two huge gotchas when you’re doing advanced Javascript programming with frameworks such as Dojo and the Yahoo! Interface Library. I can’t remember directly reading about these in books. Occasionally, I’ve seen it mentioned on mailing lists and forums here and there. However, when I’m fighting with a problem for days, [...]

I’m in Tysons Corner, Virginia killing a couple of hours. I decided to stop and visit the Apple Store. The 3G iPhone’s been out two weeks and yet there’s probably 150 people lined up outside waiting for one. It felt good to flash mine around. Yes the same one Im using to post right now. [...]