Courtney, the woman that agreed to marry me, read my Not Going to WWDC Survival Guide and took action. Delicious action!

The cookies pictured here magically appeared in my office today, and they’re as good as they look. She rocks.

I’ve attended the last 3 WWDC’s but I won’t be present this year. Here’s my plan to get through the week:

Sleep in on Monday Even with Steve Jobs not running the show, I’m guessing people will be queueing up for the keynote surprisingly early. Sleep in. Take the morning off. Watch the keynote later when [...]

Probably not very exciting to many, but I just finished moving roobasoft.com and 7 other domains from 2 virtual private servers and 1 dedicated server over to 1 EC2 instance. The move was surprisingly painless.

Why did I do all this? The main reason was because the one dedicated server was real cheap and scared me. [...]

This is a sad confession: Since buying my first mac in 2001 I have lived without the ability to move back and forward a word in the terminal. This was something I did all the time when working on Linux. It’s such a nice thing to be able to do.

Enough of my crying. It only [...]

I was waiting for a MySQL migration to finish when I said to a friend: “mysql should have growl support to tell me when a lengthy operation is done”. 10 seconds later that became: “Even better, there should be a command like ‘time’ that would growl when whatever command you give it is done”. 3 [...]

My holiday project has been deploying store.roobasoft.com. It’s Andy Kim’s open source Ruby on Rails store, Potion Store. I’ve known about Potion Store since Andy first opened it to the public. Since my current PayPal standard solution was working, and sales weren’t great, I didn’t see any need to change things. However, the PayPal standard [...]

I have 228 feeds in NetNewsWire. I’m guessing that’s a fairly typical count. It ends up being about 30-60 new news items a day. I noticed I was reading my news in what may be a unique way and thought I’d share:

Turn off auto-refresh. I tell NNW when I’m ready for news. Every morning I set [...]

At the 1h 24m mark of Macbreak Weekly episode 51 Mr. Merlin Mann gives rooSwitch a pick of the week nod and Leo then talks up rooVid a bit. It’s always great to hear and see others talk about your work in a positive way.

Thanks guys

In less than 3 hours I’m hopping on a Southwest flight from Boise to Oakland. I land in Oakland at 8:05 and will be greeted by my father-in-law (thanks!) who will drive me to Moscone to get my badge and queue up for the Keynote. In-laws in the SF area are very helpful when you’re [...]

I’ve used TextExpander off and on a few times now. At first I just used it for a signature (snore). A few weeks ago I realized TextExpander could detach what may have been the last dependence I had on browsers: Bookmark Keywords.

I love that I can use bookmark keywords to tell Camino (and OmniWeb and [...]