Archive for February, 2006

Living in Michigan…

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Fact #382If you live in Michigan and your household internet access is via a wireless link, watch out for ice storms. The ice will collect on your antenna and take your internet connection down.
Fact #383If above-mentioned situation with ice on an antenna exists, a hairdryer is an effective tool for removing the ice.
A pretty [...]

Blizzard 2006

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

In case you haven’t heard, the East Coast has been getting hit pretty hard by a blizzard today. New York City has reported 22 inches of the white stuff in some areas and the snow is still coming down. Jeff Masters has a report and some photos on his blog at the Weather [...]

Developer Benchmarks

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

A few Mac indie developers like Gus and Luis are running some unofficial developer benchmarks to judge the performance between PowerPC and Intel Macs. The benchmark is compiling Subversion, and it’s a pretty good method of metering performance impact because we spend all day compiling.
Anyway, I thought I would share the results [...]