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- Happy 2009 to All!January 1
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I'm not going to make a commitment to blogging more this year, although perhaps I should, because I've been remiss (and busy). I am up on Twitter as dnanian, though, so feel free to follow me there for the occasional self-serving and usually uninteresting bit of blather.
The New Year is starting off well with a great episode of MacMerc TV featuring SuperDuper!—big thanks to Rick Yaeger and his crew for the cool video!
And—just noticed—it looks like we're featured on the New York Times Podcast, too. Nice!
Anyway, I just wanted to wish our customers and friends a very Happy New Year - you're appreciated more than my relative blogging silence indicates.
Thanks, everyone!
- Boom!October 20 2008
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I think the last time I wrote about the Squeezebox was in 2005 (yikes!), but it's time to virtually attaboy again: the Slim Devices folks have recently released the Squeezebox Boom
, and it's pretty darn great. (I might be a little biased because I wrote their Mac-native support years ago, but really, no sense bragging on something I don't like.)
There's a surprising amount of competition out there in the "networked audio player" market, but Slim Devices (now part of Logitech) has been around a while, and their open source solution is one of the very best. The Boom
This'll work with virtual all unprotected audio files you might have (including AAC
- For Those Addicted to Clack…August 31 2008
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For nearly two years, I've been using the PC version of the Logitech diNovo Edge
keyboard, and I've been quite happy with it.
I've always been a huge fan of the feel of the IBM Selectric typewriter keyboard - perfect keyboards, not too noisy, incredible feel with a definitive release. IBM simulated that with bucking spring technology of the original IBM PC and its follow-ons, and I used those keyboards too, and thought they were the best at the time.
These days there are some similar keyboards for the Mac, and I've tried them all, but never really liked any of them. The feel just wasn't right, and while they had a similar sound, they were just too noisy, or too 'fake' feeling. It's hard to describe, but... they just didn't work for me, and I kept going back to the Apple keyboard.
The diNovo Edge
- Anyone for tennis?June 21 2008
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There are times when our inability to truly talk to our animals, to reason with them, can be truly frustrating.
And, alas, truly dangerous.
Last weekend was one of those times. Having successfully negotiated the power-failure/exploding transformer/brushfire disaster of Friday the 13th, in the sense that we lived through it, I looked forward to Saturday as a day of recovery.
It started well, a nice walk with some neighborhood friends, Taiko enjoying some swimming and running around. Followed by a walk up a nice hill, and, a broken "donor" tennis ball in his mouth, a fun game of keep away with his favorite "puppies" -- three girls from up the street.
That's where it went wrong. Some part of the ball started going down Taiko's throat and, activated by the game, he refused to let me catch him. The small piece going down was connected to the rest of the ball -- about 3/4 of a tennis ball -- which curled up and managed to fit. One way.
Oh crap.
Taiko, of course, was very proud.
Off to the local emergency center for some X-Rays which revealed the now-expanded ball sitting nicely in his stomach. Induced vomiting was unproductive, as (unfortunately) expected. Since they didn't have weekend endoscopy, it was time to head down to New England Animal Medical Center in West Bridgewater, where Zabeth is interning.
She's working the overnight shift right now, so she was gently awoken to the news that her dog was headed to sur
- Where it’s at…February 10 2008
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Excuse the brevity of this post, but—as you might expect with a new update–things are kind of busy around these parts.
The update's gone well, except for some bandwidth issues we had to deal with, and some MySQL issues on my server that happened due to some issues with the way FogBUGZ handles large attachments (really, really crappily, typically crashing MySQL after eating huge amounts of memory). But, apart from continued delays for outbound mail due to volume, it's good.
But, as I said a number of posts ago, the only thing I can promise about a big update like this one is that there'll be a few problems. They're not affecting many people, but to summarize:
Some users are reporting that the status display stops updating in the middle of the copy. The backup does actually complete eventually, but the progress bar doesn't move, and the file counts stop.
We're not quite sure what's going on here: it's not something we've been able to reproduce at this end. But we're looking into it. If you're experiencing this issue, drop a note to support.
The updater has been giving the occasional problem. This is frustrating, because we know of some problems there and have tried to "pre-emptively" handle the problem with the update notice, which indicates that you should download the update manually if you experience a problem.
Unfortunately, that hasn't been clear to people, resulting in a huge volume of incoming m