Sean Reiser
Nobody Expects the McAfee Acquisition.
August 19th, 2010 Sign that I have a broken brain. When I head about Intel acquiring McAfee and security being the "third pillar of technology" this ran through my brain
Paul Otellini: Nobody Expects the McAfee Acquisition! The chief pillar of technology is internet access... Internet access and energy efficient computing.... energy efficient computing and internet access. The TWO pillars of technology are energy efficient computing, internet access ... and security.... The Three pillars of technology are energy efficient computing, internet access and security .... and kitten videos. The Four... no...
Recipe: Bachelor's Neapolitan Ragù
July 3rd, 2010 I know I haven't blogged in a while someday I'll get back to it.
This is my attempt to create a decent Ragù in a little over an hour. There are some short cuts, but for someone looking for a sauce recipe that's better then what comes out of a jar and is quicker then a full blown sunday gravy this is rather good. This is the first time I've attempted to measure everything as I go, but I hope it's enjoyable to you.
It serves 8-10.
It freezes well. I tend to put half in the fridge and the rest in 4 small containers in the freezer.
Ingredients:
It's The End Of My Hard Drive As I Know It and I Feel Fine or Why I'm Running Tiger on Snow Leopard Weekend.
August 29th, 2009 So, I had some disturbing news this weekend, my MacBook Pro, Zen, had his hard drive die on me and unlike most folks who have had a drive crash, I'm not panicked, once I figure out how I am going to work over the next few days until Apple can replace the drive I've been doing what I need to get an old machine up and running.
What Happened
So I was doing general decrufting to prepare for the snow leopard upgrade things started feeling wanky. Emptying caches took longer then it should've. Repairing permissions and scanning the disk were throwing errors.
Blog Hiatus
August 27th, 2009 Folks who follow my tweets / facebook /etc know I've been up to my ears in a project. I've got to put seanreiser.com on hiatus for a couple of weeks until I get things running smoothly with this new client.
Thoughts about the Facebook FriendFeed Merger
August 11th, 2009 Just got done listening to the latest FFundercats "emergency chat podcast" discussing the Facebook / FriendFeed merger. Of course there's a lot of fear around this from the community. Will they merge the 2 systems? If I'm only a friendfeed user, will I have to get a facebook account in order to retain all the things I've posted in friendfeed? If they merge the 2 systems will my contacts be merged? Will my Facebook friends be able to see my FriendFeed activity or vice versa? Will I have to become Steven Perez's bunneh vampire?
Twitter and Facebook Outages: This is Why We Need a Loosely Coupled Network
August 6th, 2009 OK, last night I wrote a piece on RSSCloud in which I touched on the 140 character network and what I was doing to implement it. A few non-propellerhead friends sent me IMs last night not getting why a loosely coupled network is important, which is OK I didn't do a good job of explaining it.
Play With Keyboard and RSS Cloud
August 6th, 2009 Last week I attended Dave Winer's roadshow for bootstrapping the RSSCloud. It was an interesting meeting lots of discussion and I think that RSSCloud has some potential. It's always fun being in a room with seasoned pros, young turks and other folks some smarter then you and feeling the energy as these things are discussed.
It's funny to know that as the discussion lately has been around making the web real time (or more appropriately "real-ish time" as someone said in the meeting).
IM and the RSS Cloud
August 2nd, 2009 At Dave Winer's meeting about bootstrapping the Rss Cloud someone (I don't remember who, sorry) asked about the possibility of using the cloud as an opensource peer to peer IM network to replace Jabber/XMPP (there was a little discussion around how difficult it is to implement XMPP securely and correctly). As I'm working on my cloud I've gotten to thinking about how to implement IM. I have no time to lead this for real, so this may be just a mental exercise.
Some Spoiler Free thoughts on "The Man From Earth"
July 28th, 2009 Very rarely do I say this but I've found a film you must see, Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
Artisteer for Mac Beta
July 26th, 2009 I've been playing with the Artisteer for Macintosh beta and thought I'd write up my thoughts. If you're curious about my thoughts about the windows version please look here. To be fair as with any piece of software that is in beta, anything I discuss may change wildly before the final release.
Since the Windows version was written in something .NET based the folks over at Artisteer decided to use mono to port the package over to mac. One of the side effects of this is that it retains the Windows look and feel, as you can see in the image below. To a Macintosh purist having a ribbon interface would probably feel uncomfortable and overwelming. At the very least it feels out of place. They say they are looking into giving the program a more windows look and feel.
Sean Reiser, 40, is a developer, technologist, and amateur photographer. Sean has spent the past 20 years as a programmer, system architect and development manager. He is a life long New York resident.
Sean currently serves as the President and Chief Geek Officer of Repair Sense, Inc.. Please go to that site with any professional inquiries.
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