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Macy’s Exclusions 30 Jun 2013 | 09:23 pm
Just for a lark, I looked at the list of exclusions for an e-mailed 20% of offer from Macy’s. Here it is: “7 For All Mankind, Beats by Dr. Dre, Birkenstock, Born, Chantelle, Coach, CW-X, Denim & Sup...
This Year’s Poem 30 May 2013 | 08:19 pm
Quiet We sit on the hillside Enthralled by the waves in the meadow Riffling the brome, fescue and foxtail Picking out on the occasional aster or goldenrod Thinking and not-thinking Content to be...
Poor Martin Skrtel 29 May 2013 | 08:25 pm
From this morning’s Fiver: "Arsenal will look to shore things up at the back by signing Martin Skrtel from Liverpool, who are looking to shore things up at the back by selling Martin Skrtel to Arsena...
f.lux 22 May 2013 | 09:15 am
My massage therapist let me know about a program called f.lux about a year ago, which alters the brightness and warmth of your monitor during evening hours (after sunset). The idea is that it puts le...
Just an FYI 20 May 2013 | 09:01 pm
I haven’t been writing very much lately, and it disturbs me. I am going to rededicate myself to blogging, at least for a while. I would like to redevelop the habit that I used to have. I feel like I...
Teaching Reflections 27 Mar 2013 | 06:50 am
Last night was the final class in the Winter quarter cloud computing course that I teach for the Professional and Continuing Education department at the UW. It’s the second year I’ve taught, and whil...
TeamCity 7.1.4 Error: “java.io.IOException: Failed to start TeamCity build agent service. Please check TeamCity build agent service user have enough p... 26 Feb 2013 | 12:43 am
I saw this error in my TeamCity’s /buildAgent/logs/upgrade.log file, and IIRC, it’s the first time I’ve seen it when using TeamCity. This is on Windows Server 2008 R2. I use a local computer account ...
Nexus 7: USB Debugging Setup 14 Feb 2013 | 08:19 pm
My first foray yesterday into pushing my Mono for Android app onto my new Nexus 7 was mildly frustrating. The emulator had worked fine (if slowly), so I figured it was plug-and-play – connect the Nex...
UnsupportedClassVersionError with TeamCity and JTDS driver 12 Feb 2013 | 10:04 pm
I saw the following error in my TeamCity server logs as I was setting up a connection to a local SQL Server Express database, using the JTDS open-source driver: Unable to load JDBC driver class: net....
2013 #brandbowl – Best and Worst 4 Feb 2013 | 08:54 pm
Half the world’s attention yesterday was focused on a football game; the other half was focused on the advertisements, each of which cost almost $4MM for a 30-second spot. Tagged #brandbowl on Twitte...
