Heartbeats.

141 bpm. That’s how fast the heart of our future child is beating.Today was a big day.

This was supposed to be the future – part 1

Todays good read: Typography and the user interface by Daniel Kuo

There is a quiet issue that nags at the computer industry. While processing speed and computational flexibility have grown at incredible rates, our displays, the most human-facing elements of our digital lives, lag behind.

TWSTBTF…

A Locomotive for my rails

making progress while commuting

…and back again

Well, that was nice… The Frida Kahlo exhibition at Tate modern is highly recommended. And I guess I was right about the season; Autumn’s here.

Off to london!

Like the title says; London; Anna and I; for a few days. And when we come back it will be autumn… Which is good, because I happen to like autumn.

Milk and Biscuits instead of rails?

Ever since I became aware of the existence of Ruby on Rails I’ve been wanting to pick it up. I’ve spent evenings and nights trying to install Ruby on my powerbook, and did in fact succeed when I was just about to give up on the whole thing… only to upgrade to Tiger a month […]

Solving outgoing mail issues on dreamhost

The well-hidden, although somewhat documented, secret to getting the outgoing SMTP server up and running at Dreamhost is finally revealed to me. Not that i’ve been searching for very long, but anyways… use server port 587

this gives you:

Outgoing mail server: mail.domain.com User name: your mailbox-number Password: your password Authentication: Password Server port: 587

That did the trick for me anyways…

Don’t panic.

We went to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy tonight (yeah I know, we’re a little behind as always). Go see it If you haven’t already, the witty guidebook animations alone are worth the ticket fee! They were made by Shynola, probably best known for making great music videos: “Pyramid Song” by Radiohead, 8bit […]