Monthly Archives: September 2007

Should I or Shouldn’t I?

Posted on September 29, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

The new version of this blog software, WordPress 2.3, is out. And evidently it breaks some plugins. Many of the plugins I use haven’t been updated in years, and aren’t listed on the list of “known broken” or “known working” … Continue reading →

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MRI’ll Do Whatever You Want If You Let Me Out Of Here

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

On Monday night, I was supposed to have an MRI on my elbow. However, once they got me in the tube and took a series, they said that my elbow was too close to the edge of the tube and … Continue reading →

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Gwit? W00t!

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

On the revelation that my boss had a skunk works project going to prototype a new client/server version of the user interface in Flash, I was appalled. So I suggested that he investigate Google Web Toolkit (GWT). I hadn’t actually … Continue reading →

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Everything goes better with RAM

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I discovered that I had just barely enough money in my Paypal account to afford to replace the two 512Mb RAM sticks on my Powerbook with two 1Gb RAM sticks. It sucks when you’re on the downside of the technology … Continue reading →

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Put up or shut up time!

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I asked on the developer list why we’ve evidently decided to use Flash for the next version of the GUI, when we’re all Java Linux developers. I suggested that the powers that be have a look at Google Web Toolkit … Continue reading →

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