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I admit it, I’m a software engineer.  I do have occasional aspirations to be other things, graphic designer, product manager, or yesterday hardware engineer.  In the course of the day had to different but slightly similar hardware product ideas: WiFi Picture Frame The do exist, but not quite what I want, very simple requirements: WiFi [...]

Long story made short, was curious about the open source Digg clone… Downloaded Plugg. There was a small bug in DB permissions that was causing it not to install correctly, so I cracked open the source.  OMG!  I’ve been dealing with OO PHP for long enough that what I found reminded me why I do [...]

Just to etch some thoughts into the ether… Was having a discussion with a friend over mother day breakfast.  He was talking about how he had three different virutal machines installed on his system and was drifting off onto subject of unbuntu’s compatibility with hadoop, etc.etc.  Somewhere in this discussion he was griping about how [...]