Archive for June, 2010



Daddy, can I use your nail polish?

Published on 2010/06/11

Kayla: Daddy, may I use your nail polish? Me: Why don’t you use mommies? Kayla: It doesn’t match. Me: Uh, okay. Now Kayla has one hand that is purple and one that is pink. The toes on her left foot are blaze orange and the toes on her right are cherry red. In my view, [...]


Using a standard SIM in an iPad

Published on 2010/06/10

I tried this for several reasons: to share my iPhone data plan with my iPad, to see how difficult it was, and because I will likely want to swap SIMs between my dev iPhones, iPad, and my iPhone 4. Also, soon I will be traveling internationally and plan to take only my iPad for computing. [...]


BSD, how I love thee

Published on 2010/06/03

Gordon called this morning. I always like hearing from Gordon, and today was no exception. Even when “the pooh has struck the rotary oscillator,” Gordon is polite and amiable. Since Gordon manages a slew of networks, the best way to keep in touch with him is to break one of his servers. To make sure [...]