Archive for September, 2005

Snow!! In San Francisco?? In September?!?!

Icer Air 2005

Originally uploaded by blakeseely.

UPDATE: As always, one of the best ways to see photos from the event is through Flickr’s tags and “most interesting” features. Here’s a link.
I drove over to Pacific Heights today and watched Icer Air 2005. It was about 90-degrees [...]

On The Verge

On the verge of blooming!

Originally uploaded by blakeseely.

Here’s a picture of my plumeria as of today. The tallest flower really shot up this week due to the warm weather in San Francisco. I think I’ll have at least one flower within the next 3 days [...]

Friday Variety

I don’t have a bug for today’s Report-A-Bug-Friday, but here are a few postings your your Friday enjoyment…
Wil Shipley on Testing
Wil Shipley says “testing is teh suck” Amen to that. He also says that sloppy, buggy code is teh suckier than sucky testing. Double Amen to that. After just finishing The Pragmatic Programmer, reading [...]

Coming Along Nicely.

The plumeria I posted about several weeks ago is on the verge of blooming! Instead of leaving her outside on the fire escape, I set her on my window sill. It’s much warmer inside, and she gets the same amount of sun. My primary concern was that there wouldn’t be enough sun to fully grow [...]

Web Services Options on Tiger

So let’s say I recently started using Flickr…. here. And let’s say that one of the things I found really annoying was they only let you add photos to a group pool… here… one at a time. And let’s also say, for the sake of argument, that I’ve recently got quite a bit of free [...]

Report-A-Bug-Friday: Mail Column Widths Revisited

I posted several weeks ago that I was trying to find a repeatable way to have mail incorrectly resize its columns, but that I couldn’t: They would be fine and set up exactly as I like them, and then sometime later I’d notice that they were all different sizes, but I couldn’t remember what I [...]

Four Score, and One Year Ago

One year ago today, I got on a plane and headed to New Zealand for two weeks. I had a ticket, my backpack, some cash, and not much else. I hadn’t even cracked a book about New Zealand; I had no plans; I had no reservations. It was perfect. I knew I wanted to snowboard [...]

Report-A-Bug-Friday

I’ve got two bugs for you this week.
First up is 4252079. This bug concerns the new iTunes 5.0 and playlist folders. The new folders are awesome - I’ve been wanting this feature forever. However, they display inconsistently depending on how you view them. In your local iTunes application, they are permanently located beneath Library/Podcasts / [...]

Burning Men of Old

The Temple from 2003

Originally uploaded by blakeseely.

Now that I’ve got this year’s Burning Man photos up, I went through and posted my photos from 2003 as well. (I didn’t take a single picture in 2004). Some of the temples and structures in 2003 were amazing! [...]

What’s Left? More Than Just Ashes.

Burning Man was a blast last week. I find Burning Man is impossible to describe to try to relive - so this will probably be a drawn-out, wandering post about things I did and saw there.
Every year, preparing for a week in the desert is fun, but stressful. How much to bring? Have to have [...]