Woo! Now we’re getting somewhere. Once of the most useful integration projects I wanted to create is now possible with the latest update to the Google Contacts API. Now that they’ve added groups to the API, I can synchronize the contact lists in my database with the groups in users’ contacts so that they can […]

Fedora 9 came out last week and one of the only things I didn’t like about Fedora 8 is that it was a bitch to install Firefox 3 beta in a happy state. Now that Fedora 9 (it’s hard to say that without including the word Core) is out, it has Firefox 3 beta 5 […]

I just read that Orange is bringing the iPhone to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Africa!? The Middle East!? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. That’s just how we roll in Canada. Technology moves slower than in a third world country. That is of course, unless you want to buy it and pay […]

The other day AVG prompted me to update it. You have to go through the whole rigmarole of clicking in the right place to not buy the for-pay version, but that’s commendable of them, you really want people to pay for your software in the long run. Most of the people I deal with are […]

I found a page a while back that had a perl script that imports your iTunes playlists into MythTV’s MythMusic. The MythMusic playlist editor isn’t a pleasure to deal with, plus if you already have all of your playlists set up the way you want them in iTunes, why not just synchronize your hard dragging […]

So Google has come out with Google Talk, Labs Edition which is basically just the Google Talk gadget from your iGoogle page or your “start” page but in program form. It has a couple cool new features like the pretty notifications and the snoozability of your Google Calendar notifications. One thing I am noticing though, […]

In the last month I’ve built a new server for myself with the following specs:2 Quad Core 3.0GHz Xeon Processors8GB DDR2 800 FB-DIMMRAID-1 SATA Array on a 3ware 4 port card with two 150GB 10,000rpm Western Digital Drives for system and databasesRAID-5 SATA Array with 13 1TB Seagate drives and 1 hot spare Then since […]