detour1999 http://detour1999.com i r nerd. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Phones and such. http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/ http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/#comments Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:33:09 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/ I got an iPhone a while back, and I must admit that it is one of the nicest examples of consumer electronics I have ever used.
I’m writing this post on it right now. I never would have dreamed of writing a blog post on my old mda (even with its full qwerty keyboard…) it was just too slow and cumbersome.
All that being said, I went ahead and preprdered a G1 android phone the other day. I doubt that it will replace the iPhone. But it will be incredibly nice to compare them side by side. (and, admittedly, I’m a he’ll of a lot better at java than I am at objective C, so that will be fun, too.)
I look forward to writing more on the subject, once I get the G1 in my hands.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/09/26/phones-and-such/feed/ The survey… http://detour1999.com/2008/07/29/the-survey/ http://detour1999.com/2008/07/29/the-survey/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:53:26 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/07/29/the-survey/ A List Apart’s yearly “survey for people who make websites” is up.

I took it. It took about 5 minutes to fill out.

I love data, so all of you should take it too.. (if you make websites)

werd up.

-d.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/07/29/the-survey/feed/ Welcome to 2007, Dylan… http://detour1999.com/2008/06/19/welcome-to-2007-dylan/ http://detour1999.com/2008/06/19/welcome-to-2007-dylan/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:16:16 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/06/19/welcome-to-2007-dylan/ So, I got off of my lazy ass and installed Windows Live Writer.

I’ve heard from so many people that I should try it out for blogging, but as I mentioned above… I’m really lazy.

First impression: it’s pretty nice, I guess.

Second impression: I essentially stopped using almost all software made by microsoft about a year ago, because I generally couldn’t afford it, and there were equivalent or better OSS or free alternatives.
as it turns out, I think I prefer non-msft style. It just took me 10 minutes to figure out how to get to the edit source… The layout is just not conducive to how I work anymore. Weird. I was a msft-only guy for close to a decade… and I lost it all in less than a year.

And I’m all right with that.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/06/19/welcome-to-2007-dylan/feed/ Firefox 3: thoughts and impressions. http://detour1999.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-thoughts-and-impressions/ http://detour1999.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-thoughts-and-impressions/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:06:40 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/?p=25 Well, I did my part.

I just installed the latest Firefox as part of download day.

My first thoughts (I haven’t looked at ff3 since and early beta…)
- I miss my bookmarks that all got deleted (meh.)
- I miss(ed) firebug. (getfirebug.com v.1.1 v.1.2 works just fine)
- I miss(ed) firecookie (http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/firecookie/firecookie-05-beta/ v0.5 seems to work fine)
- Firefox no longer crashes fatally every time I close it. (seriously, every single time I closed it)
- Startup and shutdown are INCREDIBLY fast compared to ff2.
- I miss my themes… and mozilla.org is a little swamped right now, so I can’t get a new one. However, the default theme is really not bad at all.. I just miss my old one.

We’ll see how well it deals with being left running…
hopefully I’ll never see memory usage of 1,268,300k ever again.

I’ll update with more as I remember things.

Update:
I upgraded to ff3 on my macbook.
- Colorzilla needed to be upgraded ColorZilla v2.
- Bookmarks transferred just fine…

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/06/17/firefox-3-thoughts-and-impressions/feed/ my life as a sitcom. http://detour1999.com/2008/05/09/my-life-as-a-sitcom/ http://detour1999.com/2008/05/09/my-life-as-a-sitcom/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 01:55:44 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/?p=24 So, I’m getting married…
For some reason there are a bunch of people that share my and my fiancees names, so I was unable to get dylanandsarah.com or any variation on that… out of frustration, I found a URL that fit my mood.

myfuckingwedding.com

awesome.

in a fit of brilliance, my wife-to-be suggested dylanlovessarah.com. Acquired and set up. Rock.

in a fit of general stupidity, I had extra invitations printed (in comic-sans…) that told people to rsvp @ myfuckingwedding.com… to send to my friends who would undoubtedly find it as hilarious as I do.

Today we found out that at least one of the “informal” rsvp cards was inadvertently sent to one of Sarah’s cousins.

Hilarity ensues.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/05/09/my-life-as-a-sitcom/feed/ gChartPhp - sometimes life gets the best of you. http://detour1999.com/2008/05/09/gchartphp-sometimes-life-gets-the-best-of-you/ http://detour1999.com/2008/05/09/gchartphp-sometimes-life-gets-the-best-of-you/#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 01:47:01 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/?p=23 yeah..

I haven’t touched gChart in months.

Realistically, I’m not going to…  I’m just way to swamped at work.

If someone wants to take over, lmk.  I’ll gladly add you to the project.

Otherwise…  who knows.

-d.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/05/09/gchartphp-sometimes-life-gets-the-best-of-you/feed/ Sometimes technology is too much for me. http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/ http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:53:50 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/ Like when I IM twitter in response to an SMS I just reveived from twitter.

To respond to the person sitting 8 feet away from me.

(and then blog about it.)

-d.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/02/21/sometimes-technology-is-too-much-for-me/feed/ oh, gmail ads… you know me so well…. http://detour1999.com/2008/02/19/oh-gmail-ads-you-know-me-so-well/ http://detour1999.com/2008/02/19/oh-gmail-ads-you-know-me-so-well/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:39:37 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/02/19/oh-gmail-ads-you-know-me-so-well/ It's Your Menstrual Cycle - www.MyMonthlyCycles.com - 
Track and calculate your menstrual cycles for free.

thanks gmail. I’ll keep that in mind.

-d.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/02/19/oh-gmail-ads-you-know-me-so-well/feed/ google product consintency. http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/ http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:23:19 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/ I use reader.  A lot.  I love it.

I also use gmail, which I also love.

I hate going to gmail quickly reviewing my unread email and hitting shift-a and  not having it mark everything as read.

I have done so at least five times.

today.

Anyone know of a greasemonkey script that ports the reader keyboard shortcuts to gmail?

-d.

]]> http://detour1999.com/2008/02/12/google-product-consintency/feed/ release early… http://detour1999.com/2008/01/14/release-early/ http://detour1999.com/2008/01/14/release-early/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:32:25 +0000 detour1999 http://detour1999.com/2008/01/14/release-early/ um… that other one, too.

more gchartphp stuff should be up later this week.

werd.

-d.

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