Archive for August, 2004

Instant Gratification

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

I’ve always been a “creator.” As a kid I wanted to be an artist (I’m a horrible artist). And now I program. The things I really enjoy all involve some sort of building or creating.
One aspect of programming I really enjoy is the “instant gratification.” Make no mistake, programming is time consuming (hence all the [...]

Ideas I Had in Passing

Wednesday, August 25th, 2004

Don’t you hate it when somebody steals one of your ideas and runs with it? OK.. these people didn’t steal my idea, most likely they don’t have a clue who I am.
I am talking about Dodgeball. Some time ago I had a similar idea. Online matchmaking is extremely popular at the moment. Also popular in [...]

Setting Up a Development Environment

Monday, August 16th, 2004

I spent some time this weekend setting up a new PalmOS development environment. I have a couple if Linux machines, but my laptop was my only Windows machine (note the past tense). Unfortunately, the PalmOS Simulator is Windows only.
My first step was to try the simulator under WINE. It actually seemed to work half decently. [...]

My Laptop

Thursday, August 12th, 2004

I’ve been complaining to those who cared (and my girlfriend, not that she doesn’t care but it doesn’t really affect her) that I was about/at least a week behind schedule on my Palm AIM client.
What does this have to do with “My Laptop?”
Well.. I’m now going to fall further behind because it suffered a near [...]

Mr. Clean AutoDry

Tuesday, August 10th, 2004

Bleah.. I’ve been too busy at work.
I used to baby my car, spending hours washing and polishing it (Zaino 1-1000). Unfortunately after moving around, it’s no longer convenient for me to spend hours pampering it. I’m also reluctant to let other people wash my car so it just accumulates dust.
It eventually got to the point [...]