because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 10th, 2008
Shawn Blanc has put up an excellent review of his new 15″ MacBook Pro over at his site. In the Unchanging section of the review he makes the point that Apple products age very well:
… it is not uncommon to see someone still using their four or five-year-old PowerBook on a daily basis. Even [...]
After a week of wearing trifocals I have come to some conclusions.
They are better than progressive lenses for me. The blurred, fun-house-mirror effect the progressive lenses had is not present at all with trifocals. This isn’t to say that there isn’t some adjustment required. When I got my first set of bifocals in May 2003, [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 13th, 2008
Most technology reviews happen shortly after the hardware or software is released, and the reviewer has had only a limited time to tinker with the product. Publishing is not without a sense of one-upsmanship, and getting your review to press first is the only way to win that game.
Here at Zanshin.net World Headquarters, I’ve [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 1st, 2008
After trying to enable remote access to my home network and discovering that AT&T doesn’t really allow inbound connections, I’ve resorted to a different solution for access-from-anywhere-version-control.
Roundhaus
Roundhaus, has this to say about their subversion offering,
Working with subversion repositories has never been easier. Create new projects, assign permissions, add and remove people all from a simple [...]
