Category Archives: Technology

Upgrading To Mountain Lion, PostgreSQL and Rails

I’m prob­a­bly late to the party on this since Moun­tain Lion has been out for an inter­net eter­nity but if I ever have to do it again or if some­one is a worse pro­cras­ti­na­tor than me, this will live in per­pe­tu­ity in the Google­verse to aid us on out trav­els. I upgraded to Moun­tain Lion …

April 11, 2013 – 5:29 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random, Technology | Comments (0)

Please Don’t Learn To Speak French

This essay is a par­ody of this essay. You should read it as such. It will be of lit­tle inter­est to the great major­ity of my read­ers but there was no point in putting it on my rapidly dying tech­nol­ogy blog. Today (regard­less on which day you are read­ing this) on Twit­ter, a hun­dred or so …

May 15, 2012 – 9:52 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Philosophy, Technology | Comments (4)

Just Because You Can Kill Someone With It Does Not Make It Insecure

This week­end, Github had what an impar­tial, under­stated observer might call a small dustup related to how the Rails web frame­work func­tions “out of the box”. For those amongst my non-technical audi­ence (well, your eyes have prob­a­bly glazed over at this point any­way), Github is a com­pany that pro­vides host­ing of source code using a …

March 5, 2012 – 9:28 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Comments (1)

Google+ Is What I Want Facebook To Be

While it’s still very early in the process for Google+, already I’m see­ing things they are doing that I wish Face­book did. The pri­mary dif­fer­ence for me is the Cir­cles com­po­nent of Google+. From the descrip­tion: Google+ Cir­cles helps you orga­nize every­one accord­ing to your real-life social connections–say, ‘fam­ily,’ ‘work friends,’ ‘music bud­dies,’ and ‘alumni’. …

July 3, 2011 – 1:18 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

When Pair Programming Goes Too Far

A pic­ture really is worth a thou­sand words.

February 3, 2009 – 5:37 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Technology | Comments (0)

Live Search Seems Pretty Broken

So after see­ing a very odd spike in traf­fic to my blog today regard­ing Cross­fit, I went to Live Search to see why quite a few peo­ple were find­ing my hum­ble cor­ner of the tubes. As it turns out, if you search for “cross­fit train­ing” using Live Search, I’m num­ber four in the result list …

October 27, 2008 – 2:35 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

Google Is Starting To Scare Me

I wrote a post this morn­ing at 11:10 AM detail­ing get­ting Clo­jure set up on my sys­tem and I briefly men­tioned that I would prob­a­bly try both Vim and Komodo as edi­tors. At 3:39 PM, some­one had come to my site from Google using the key­words “clo­jure komodo”. I don’t think I’m ever going to …

October 26, 2008 – 5:55 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Windows 7

So will Vista be the 21st century’s Win­dows ME now that Win­dows 7 is looming?

October 16, 2008 – 9:13 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Comments (0)

No More TV For You, Old Person

Genius.

October 13, 2008 – 9:13 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Humor, Technology | Comments (0)

The Dark Side Of Multitasking

There is one, you know? Even if you think there isn’t. The Daily Pal­lia­tive: Frustration

August 1, 2008 – 7:56 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)