Archive for January, 2006

WebnoteHappy Lite 1.0

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Luis de la Rosa just released version 1.0 of WebnoteHappy Lite. I’ve been beta testing this app for awhile now and Luis has done a great job on it. Congrats Luis!
WebnoteHappy Lite lets you write a note for any web page that interests you, creating a bookmark in the process. But “web page [...]

Fun with Fours

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Logtar tagged me with this meme over a week ago, and with everything going on last week, I’m just now catching up with it.
Four jobs I’ve had.

Student System Administrator for the ECE Department at UCSB.
Software Engineer Intern at Pacific Advanced Technology doing embedded development for an infrared video camera.
Software Engineer and System Administrator [...]

XRG on a Quad G5

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Today I was pleasantly surprised when Edward Miller sent some screenshots of XRG running on his new Quad G5 system. This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in awhile, so I thought I would post a crop of XRG’s CPU graph on a quad-processor system…

XRG was designed to work with n-processor systems years ago, [...]

Seasonality 1.2

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Most of you have probably noticed that Seasonality 1.2 was posted today. I’m pretty excited about the announcement. While this release didn’t take nearly as long to develop as version 1.1 did, it was still a significant undertaking. The beta-testing stage alone has been over a month. So I’m both excited, [...]

Gaucho Software News Feeds

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Ever since the beginning of Gaucho Software’s web presence, the index web page has displayed general news items about software updates and other miscellaneous items. I decided it was time to offer an RSS news feed to make it easier for users to keep up with what Gaucho Software is doing. A few [...]

Upcoming Seasonality Release and Survey

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

The release of Seasonality 1.2 is coming up pretty quick. I’m taking care of the last changes and it should be ready to go sometime next week. This version has a ton of bug fixes and a couple of new features as well. The biggest change is localization support, and I’m happy [...]

Pandora

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Flip pointed out this very cool new online music streaming site, Pandora.
Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you’ll love. It’s powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we’ll [...]

MacBook Pro

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Well, I’ve placed my order for a new MacBook Pro (with the 1.67Ghz Core Duo). I ordered the base configuration (512MB RAM, 80GB drive), and will be purchasing another gig of RAM separately. I don’t understand why Apple charges so much for their memory upgrades… Now all I have to do is [...]

Al Fasoldt on Seasonality…

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Check out this excellent review by Al Fasoldt in The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)…
I’m a big fan of good weather-reporting software for years but never thought I’d find nirvana so easily. No weather program I’ve ever tried, for Windows, Linux or OS X, comes within a light year of Seasonality.

Happy 2006!

Sunday, January 8th, 2006

Hope everyone had a happy New Year. I’m just now getting caught up again after taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays. We went out to California to visit Katrina’s family for Christmas. After that we flew to Minnesota for a wedding on New Year’s Eve (my cousin got married). [...]