House update: Tile pictures
I was able to take some pictures of the tile last night and here they are!
I’ll try and get some shots of the stucco and get them up.
We are slated to have the cabinets re-stained tomorrow! 
Installed new iPhone / iPod Touch theme on site
Sweet!
I just installed the WPTouch plugin that, if you visit the site from iPhone or iPod Touch, will automatically detect it and load and iPhone theme.
It shouldn’t affect anything if you view it from any other device, but makes reading on the “i” devices MUCH easier.
Please let me know what you think of it.
9/9/2008 House update
Wow, a lot going on with the house this week!
- Art is laying the kitchen tile, he will be done tomorrow
- Appliances are getting delivered between 12 and 2 today.. they’re going to be staged in the garage for now.
- Stucco color coat is going on tomorrow or Thursday.
- Cabinets are going to be re-stained Thursday or Friday
- Counter templating is just about done.
Very exciting stuff, I’ll post some pictures at the end of the week once some of the stuff is done.
OSX, Windows and Linux.. here’s my opinon
I just watched Microsoft’s new ad with Seinfeld and it was really bad.
I understand what they’re doing, trying to reinvent themselves as a “hip” company.. but they’re just not and it was a really poor attempt.
That got me thinking about the three main OSs out there - OSX, Windows and Linux (whatever distro).
I started thinking about what I thought the roles should be and here’s what I think:
In a corporate environment:
Linux servers with Windows desktops
At home:
OSX
Linux is a GREAT and stable OS, but it’s not ready for a desktop OS.
It’s still a pain to configure and get stuff installed… although it’s come a FAR way since I first started using it.
Microsoft has the market cornered with the corporate desktop OS.
They’re not hip and never will be.
Strip all the fluff out of Windows and stick to the corporate environment.. it’s a stale corporate OS and it flourishes there… just keep it that way.
OSX is a fun, multi-media centric OS that promotes ease of use and creativity.. perfect for the home environment, not so good for corporate.
I prefer OSX, but I don’t hate any other OS. My main machine is OSX but I have, and probably always will, a Windows and Linux box.
Find a nitch and stick to it, don’t try to take over the world.
This is all just IMHO.. don’t bash me too bad.
Ambiance for iPhone saved my sleep!
[starreview]
My family and I recently went out of town on vacation and the one thing we forgot; our sound machine.
Over the past few years we’ve gotten so used to having a sound machine that I usually set a radio to a static station when I’m out of town on business.
Thanks to Ambiance, I don’t need to do that anymore.
I downloaded the app from the App Store and was really impressed with the number of audio samples an the quality of them.
Plus the option to set a timer and / or use it as an alarm clock is just beautiful!
This is a new one for my iPhone top 10.
Below are some screenshots I just took.
