Category Archives: tech

Bay Area dot coms

So today I spent the afternoon driving around Mountain View. After going to the Computer History Museum (which was awesome mind you) I stopped by Google, Apple and Facebook world headquarters. Food for thought, all of the campuses were non-descript. … Continue reading

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The perception of vendor lock in

So I have this perception of my Android phone being more open and DRM free, and my Apple/iTunes account not being. I had an interesting experience this morning that I thought was best shared. So, I just frustratingly bought an … Continue reading

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Comcast VS FCC

Ouch, I don’t know how I missed this. So Comcast wins the right to tell you what data packets (That you paid for) come to your computer first. Basically, a site like Hulu (who might have a partnership with Comcast) … Continue reading

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Teamcity status macro for Trac

I had a need to print the build status of our teamcity server in trac. After researching various solutions, I figured a trac macro would best fit. It was a surprisingly simple solution so I figured I would share it … Continue reading

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The death of physical media

It was odd today. I ran into a friend who just purchased a collection of CDs from a record store and I was kind of taken back. I mean, not that she bought CDs, but that you still could. I … Continue reading

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XSL for Line breaking long words

I spent a few hours searching for, but had no luck in finding this. So I’m posting what I wrote! This XSL will put a zero length space character into any word longer then 20 characters in any text node … Continue reading

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