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- Tom Waits, Plays: 87
- Frank Sinatra, Plays: 18
- XTC, Plays: 16
- Daft Punk, Plays: 13
- Anvil, Plays: 12
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- Hey @PawnStars, do producers make all your experts begin with "So what are your concerns with the piece?" All seem to say it identically. 1 day ago
- @warmfuzzykitten Failed. I deleted all 4 episodes of @SharkTankABC since they tried to take away my ability to FF & watched something else. 1 day ago
- What the hell, ABC On-Demand? I can't fast forward if I get bored? You've just ensured I won't be watching AT ALL. http://t.co/YBy7Xdn2 1 day ago
- My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: Tom Waits (71), Adele (24) & Rush (20) #MusicMonday http://t.co/YsKqx2f9 1 day ago
- Yes? Can I help you? http://t.co/BVJXnQWL 2 days ago
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Author Archives: Joey Gibson
GV Places 1.3 Available in the App Store
After just a week in the Apple queue, version 1.3 of GV Places is now available. Here’s the list of what’s new: Changed the screen order for adding a place. Now the phone number selection comes first, then the map. … Continue reading
The Most Painful Thing I Ever Ate
Back before Christmas, I discovered a restaurant called Genghis Grill. It’s Mongolian BBQ, and it’s quite tasty. I eat there about once a week, because it is about a 10 minute walk from my office. Anyway, I was there today, … Continue reading
No, Santorum, You’ve Got It Backwards
Today, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. Frothy Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum took to Twitter to share his wisdom on the subject, saying Only a religious zealot homophobe like Santorum could … Continue reading
Fast Apple Customer Support
Today I bought the 24 song, 2.3 hour-long Van Halen record Live: Right Here, Right Now from the iTunes store. But there was a snag: “Why Can’t This Be Love?” failed with an error -100000. I tried restarting it a … Continue reading
Write Your Congressmen: Please Do Not Support SOPA/PIPA
Depending on what sites you visit, you may or may not know that several sites have shutdown today, or have modified their logos, to protest SOPA/PIPA. These are bills before the House of Representatives and Senate, respectively, that would have … Continue reading
Once More, This Time With Clojure
If you happened to read my post from the other day entitled My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget, you know that I went through three iterations of getting it going. The final solution, written in Ruby worked well. Until … Continue reading
We Have To Get the Money Out of Politics
It costs a lot to get elected to high political office. A lot. So much, in fact, that a candidate has to either be independently wealthy, or they have to sell their souls votes to those who would finance their … Continue reading
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Fizzing and Buzzing With Clojure
I’ve known about the FizzBuzz problem for a few years. I’ve written solutions for it in a few languages, but never posted them. I’ve been working with Clojure lately, and after reading articles about how many job applicants can’t solve … Continue reading
My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget
Note Redux: I changed my approach, yet again. Scroll farther down to see the latest. Note: I changed my approach on this, so scroll down to see how I’m doing it now. I’ve been wanting a widget or an auto-post … Continue reading
Lego VW Microbus
Thomas and I spent six hours this past weekend building this. It was my big splurge from our last trip to Disney World, back in October. What is it? It’s a classic, 1962 Volkswagen microbus. It was expensive, and had … Continue reading
A Sad Day: Steve Jobs Is Gone
It’s a sad day in the world. A visionary man has left us. Thanks, Steve, for all the great products that I use every day. I wish I could take credit for the sad Mac image, but I found it … Continue reading
JUnitLaunchFixer 1.0.4 Released
I’ve just released a new version of my Eclipse plugin called JUnitLaunchFixer. If you’ve never heard of it, it lets you set the default heap size for new debug launchers in Eclipse. You can read more about it in the … Continue reading
DirecTV’s Absurd Tech Support Script
I’ve been a mostly-happy DirecTV customer since 2001. In those 11 years, I’ve only had to call tech support three times, and the first two times were flawlessly executed. Those two times were a few years ago, and I was … Continue reading
Two Features To Make Lion’s Launchpad Perfect
One of the features in Lion that I didn’t think I would like has become one of my favorites: Launchpad. This is essentially Springboard from iOS, but for the Mac. It’s a nice iOS-like view of your /Applications folder, that … Continue reading
My Lion “Clean Install” Saga
Updated! Scroll down for the latest. I upgraded my 2011 Macbook Pro and my 2006 Mac Pro to Lion on Day 1. The MBP has had no problems at all. The Mac Pro, on the other hand, was acting a … Continue reading
OSX Lion To Lion File Sharing Not Working – How To Fix It
After upgrading both my Macs to Lion on Wednesday, I discovered this morning that I can no longer mount shared folders between them. I tried going in both directions, and both failed with a very non-intuitive “Connection failed” message. I … Continue reading
Xcode 4.1 Not Installing? Try This.
Apple released OSX Lion earlier today, but Xcode 4.0.2 is not compatible with it. Later in the day, they released Xcode 4.1 for Lion through the Mac App Store. I saw some comments from people saying that at about 80% … Continue reading
