Earlier this year I got a cheap Canon MP620 all-in-one printer, which works great with Windows and works fine for Ubuntu. Canon released drivers as .deb files for the MP610 which work with cups. I remember sweating it out a bit because the printer does not work unless you track down a few pieces that [...]
Archive for 2009
He Isn’t Atlas, But He Does Need Help
September 27th, 2009
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Last March, I noticed a cynical political cartoon depicting President Obama as Atlas. I would have rather seen the producers of the world carefully stepping through a field of booby traps set by Obama. Today, I noticed a new take on this upsidedown theme. This time, Patrick Corrigan shows Obama as pleading for help from [...]
Tender Victuals
July 13th, 2009
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Remember Tender Vittles brand cat food? It was a revolutionary feat of marketing…cat food that bridged the gap between wet, canned food and dry, bagged food. I didn’t think about it until now, but vittles (properly spelled victuals) means “food fit for human consumption”. Was the real purpose of the product to deliver low-cost, low-quality [...]
Glad to be Dad
June 18th, 2009
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I’ve learned so much about myself since becoming a father nearly six years ago. Constantly striving to serve these two little guys has helped me understand my own childhood. I am honored to be helping them through theirs. It just gives me so much pleasure to be around their joyful creativity. So, with Father’s Day [...]
Annoying Anti-Piracy for Book from Manning
May 28th, 2009
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I bought Zend Framework in Action yesterday because the short tutorial isn’t quite enough to know how to architect an big application. I’m building an enterprise app at work for a client and picked ZF and YUI as core platforms. I’m pleased with the content of the book. Rob Allen is a fine writer and [...]
