Good Lord... I just found out from the owner of the house next door (who was renting the house to her step-son and his friends for the last 2 years) that they've been growing pot in the basement and have been selling ecstasy and crystal meth out of the house …

I should have been doing other work today, but there was nothing super urgent so I decided to dedicate the day to converting content from the old TWiki-based Mandriva Community Wiki over to the new system (using MediaWiki). What an utterly boring job. Dries out the eyes too. Let's see …

I swear... if another spitting venom thingamajobby kills me I will freak right out. Trying to kill this level 30 furbolg with a bunch of level 27-28 body guards is one thing... (I'm only level 27 myself) but for those fricking spiders to come wandering around and then... (of all …

Ok, as per my last entry, I'm gonna do some comparisons between Komodo 3.5 and Zend Studio 5.0. Both have recently been released, both are "heavy weight" IDE's (Integrated Development Environments). Zend Studio deals particularly with PHP... that's Zend's bread and butter, so it makes sense. Komodo, on …

Hot on the heels of Komodo 3.5 for OS X, the final version of Zend Studio is now available too (upgrading as I write this). I've been using the betas for a while, and I think it's a great upgrade over version 4. I'm a little concerned by the …

Well, I have a definite need to have virtual machine support for 64bit guests so imagine how pleased I was when vmware indicated that the new version of workstation (5.5.0) would have support for 64bit guests. Fantastic! Then, reading the fine print, discovered that I would need to …

Well, I've been asking for it for about 2 years now but ActiveState has finally come out with an OS X native version of the Komodo IDE. Is it too late? I dunno... I've been using Zend Studio for a while now and I've come to really like it. The …

Here I figured with Annvix 1.1-RELEASE done I could get cracking on some WoW finally... been missing it and haven't had much time to play. I did get a little bit in, then found a few problems with some packages (well, 3 isn't so bad I guess) so I …

Hmmm... looks like I built php-xml wrong and the rss feeds weren't working so this is just a test to see if my rss reader picks things up now.

Well, I've always had Tux hanging around the rear-view mirror of my Jetta and when we got the Sportage I had to fight with the wife to (ahem) borrow the Tux that my daughter had... aquired... from my office and hang it from the rear-view mirror of the Sportage. Of …