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You may have already noticed but my blog recently received an "unvamping" and has been stripped of nearly all CSS (there's a small bit to set the body width since I forgot how that could be done without CSS :-O) [...]

ID Much?! Site's gone, but the dream's still alive

This is less of an update and more me wanting to stash this image. In my effort to focus and not waste time on "weekend sites" idmuch.com is expired and long gone. What's not long gone is the concept. I [...]

My Search for the Perfect Desktop Environment Part 3: Xmonad, Gnome Shell and back again

In case you missed it, here's part 1 and part 2 of this series. Shortly after becoming disenchanted with OSX again, Dean Jones introduced me to Xmonad as he recently has switched over to it. Around that same time, I [...]

My Search for the Perfect Desktop Environment Part 2: How I spent 2 weeks attempting to be an Apple Fanboy

In case you missed it, here's part 1 of this series. So earlier this year I got my hands on an 11" Macbook Air that we had laying around the office. This was around the same time my 14" Dell [...]

My Search for the Perfect Desktop Environment Part 1: Switching from Unity to Gnome Shell

I'm unsure of how many parts this series will consist of, but this is the first. Prior to Ubuntu's Unity, I was a long time user of Gnome 2 with the occasional deviation to KDE (typically days at a time [...]

Clock? We don't need no stinkin' clock!

So I've been using Xmonad for a little while now (one of these days I'll blog about my recent OS / Window Manager trials) and the one thing that has left me a bit meh is the way the toolbars [...]

Why developers (maybe everyone) suck at estimates

I'll be the first to admit that I feel like my estimating abilities are horrible, but today I did an estimate, felt confident that I did enough due diligence and amazingly enough, even with a bit of justified padding was [...]

Because if you're not kicking your own ass, someone else will

So I've been busy and have neglected reading for a few weeks now and decided to pick up Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life as I've recently become obsessed with Kevin O'Leary's Twitter feed and figured it would [...]

Spell & Speak

One thing that I really enjoy about OSX (possibly the only thing) is the text to speech capabilities. The command line application say sounds good and doesn't seem nearly as buggy as some of the open source counterparts. Now what [...]

PCI Compliance and the importance of a 404 page

As you may remember from a previous post, I typically rewrite my error traffic back to / instead of having a fancy 404 page. The logic behind this is that I'd rather get my users to a page that's functional [...]