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Archive for August, 2006
Post # 393
Aug 19th
We’re off to Finland tomorrow, until September 5th. I’m rather thrilled about the whole thing.
So, in honour of our absense, I’ve FINALLY encoded and uploaded video evidence that I DID open for Delirious at Freshwind 06. So, if you’re interested in seeing and hearing one J Puddy play 30 minutes of beautiful progressive house to an audience of 2000+, then these are for you:
300k Windows Media 100k Windows Media Play loud.
I shaved my stubble today into a molester moustache. Checkidout…
A baby!
Aug 14th
That’s right, Lee and Sarah had a baby! Not us. Though not for lack of trying to convince my wife. Lee and Sarah got married 7 days before us…
Anyway. Check it out…
Congrats friends. I think that pic of Lee with a fat stogie is simply the best.
Mixed IT stacks = strong like bull
Aug 12th
eWeek recently ran a great article comparing various IT stacks. I’d been hoping they’d do something like it, as they had been briefly discussing various stacks and their denefits, but hadn’t really done a major expose. I was impressed to see how .Net fared overall.
In layman‘s terms, an IT stack is the group of core technologies that make up a web enabled product or process. A stack will include an operating system, a web server application, a database, and a scripting (programming) language.
Probably the two most well known stacks are the LAMP stack, and the .Net stack. LAMP is Linux, More >
Where to congregate
Aug 12th
My wife and I disagree over where we should worship. I personally like TACF Central, but she prefers TACF Airport.
It’s amusing. She says that at Central she feels like it’s a big party and that she doens’t meet with God and that everyone’s just there to have fun, and she leaves feeling like she’s socialized with everyone but God. She feels alive at TACF Airport, and that the worship is so genuine and the messages minister to her.
I on the other hand, feel the opposite. I dislike TACF Airport chiefly because it bores me, and given the fact that I More >
I’ve switched to Opera
Aug 7th
I’ve finally made the move away from Internet Explorer. It’s been a long slow process, and one I’ve tried to hurry up, at times, but not until now have I been so comfortable in a different browser, that I’ve had cause enough to switch my Windows defaults.
I gave Firefox a try early on, but it didn’t do anything to wow me. I didn’t give a care for tabbed browsing at the time, and on a fully patched Windows XP system there’s very little security difference between the two, so I didn’t really give a care.
Recently I tried out IE 7. More >
Pee & Tee
Aug 7th
I guess there’s nothing quite like a Lazar wedding. Anyone who was at Pete’s wedding yesterday will understand (though I don’t know if Liz’s wedding was quite as eccentric). They tell me I’ve known the Lazars most of my life, but I don’t really have any memories of them except for the last 6 years. Such are parents friends sometimes.
To those who weren’t there, highlights included a dog in the wedding party, breaking of the glass – Jewish style (Pete’s Dad, as it turns out, is Jewish), uncontrollable weeping from Pete, elaborate stories (read: lies) from Pete’s Dad, inflatable boobies, More >