Author Archives: atotic

POOK.IO

Posted on August 24, 2012

Part One of the Total Rewrite is finished, and it looks very good.Speed, simplicity, Bootstrap, jsdiffs, bindingsall very good. Code is clean,new features fit snuggly,as they should,it is a total rewrite One step left before part one is doneThat one … Continue reading →

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Finding a nanny in Palo Alto

Posted on January 29, 2011

tl;dr In the Bay Area, care.com works. Start your search 3 months before you need the hire, many great candidates are hired right away. Update Our nanny score for the last year: 5! That is 5 nannies in a bit … Continue reading →

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Migrating from Picasa to Lightroom on OS X

Posted on January 14, 2011

Picasa team must be grumpy. Their baby has failed to thrive in Google’s cloud, the desire for images to be managed locally incompatible with Google’s dream. It took me a while to give up on it, I have 20K images, … Continue reading →

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Our Eichler Remodel in Palo Alto

Posted on June 2, 2010

This was my third remodel in 14 years. First one was a transformation of a cottage in Old Palo Alto into a modern. It ended up looking great thanks to my architect dad. It was also over budget, and a … Continue reading →

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QTKitPlayer XCode 3 port

Posted on December 2, 2008

I am back to hacking the Mac. It feels wonderful, why did I ever leave? Oh yes, when I left, we had no socket library or virtual memory, and I was writing a browser, and OS X was still way … Continue reading →

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ReadyNAS and “Logon failure: account currently disabled”

Posted on June 4, 2008

This was the last bug I’ve encountered when trying to get my music collection running inside  a Squeezeserver. I’ve bought a ReadyNAS Duo, and created two public shares, Aleks & Ingrid. Those were also the login names on my XP … Continue reading →

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I want a XUL phone

Posted on October 11, 2007

Buying an iPhone was an i opener. After being loyal to my bare-bones Nokias for years, I finally understood “mobile mobile mobile”. Here was a beautiful UI, sparse, and yet so useful. I’ve forgotten how liberating it is to use … Continue reading →

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