2014

The best argument yet for net neutrality comes from Major League Baseball qz.com/241250/the-bes…

1Password, integrated into iOS apps and quick authentication using touch ID on iOS 8 … OH MY DAWG! blog.agilebits.com/2014/07/30/int…

Install the latest version they said, shouldn’t be any issues they said.

Have to wait for more iced tea to brew before I get a refill and go back to work? #firstworldproblems

I could feel this from my hotel in Wichita. My bed was shaking for all the wrong reasons. #earthquake earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2014-07…

Downloading OS X Yosemite Beta 1, will see how well it runs in a VM tonight :)

The relief you hear from a customer at 5AM when you’ve brought back them from the brink of getting fired…

Isn’t worth being up all night.

Jumbo All The Frames! wahlnetwork.com/2014/07/22/jum…

Go home Microsoft, you’re drunk, you tried this already and it failed theverge.com/2014/7/22/5928…

Activist investor pushes EMC to spin off VMware unit cnbc.com/id/101852090

So so much enjoy setting DuckDuckGo as the default search in Google Chrome.

Guidance Change

A few months ago I wrote about the VMware View optimization script breaking Internet Explorer and Adobe Acrobat through the addition of a registry entry that disabled Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR): ASLR was a feature added to Windows starting with Vista. It’s present in Linux and Mac OS X as well. For reasons unknown, the VMware scripts disable ASLR. Internet Explorer will not run with ASLR turned off. After further testing, neither will Adobe Reader.

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Russia announces they’re cutting dependence on Microsoft software.

Were they even paying for it to begin with?

Is there a trick to get an on screen keyboard to appear if requested on an iPad when it’s paired with a bluetooth board?

It was 28 years before I had my first cavity. My 2 year old already has one. Getting it sealed today.

So much suckage. I’d rather it be me.

Great, now how am I going to get my Viagra? usatoday.com/story/money/20…

“Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable between our two ports. If that’s the case, we’ll provide it. Heck, we’ll even install it.”

Fantastic takedown of Verizon by Layer 3 blog.level3.com/global-connect…

Tim Cook says everyone should do 80 percent of their work on an iPad, just like him 9to5mac.com/2014/07/17/app…

IBM to start selling Apple iPhones and iPads, welcome to Bizarro World. money.cnn.com/2014/07/15/tec…

Fun when I give people my cards and say “Title is old, phone number doesn’t work, street address has changed. But that’s my email address.”

My iOS developer account expired today. I’ve not been in the 8 betas at all this year. Probably not worth the $100 to keep up this year.

Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, and the words to say it flow with ease. (Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux)

3 hours to run Converter against a 12GB local Fusion VM to my home ESXi box? Crap.

Disruption? Not if you are making the same people rich… thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2…

It rained pretty solid last night. Perfect excuse not to mow the lawn today.

If you troll in the comments of a story about a man who’s 9 month old son unexpectedly dies, you’re just the lowest of scum on this Earth.

Reading through Internet comments, the fastest way to lose faith in humanity.

VMware vSphere 5.5 Toolkit v1.58 feeds.derekseaman.com/~/68972181/0/d…

Noooooo! Our neighborhood BBQ resturant went out of business! Wasn’t the greatest but it was good, close and fairly priced. #ThePickRIP