Tag Archives: Computers

I updated The Songs of Summer with this summer’s song. It is Parenthesis by The Blow. That album is great. I’ve started biking to work again. It’s 2.4 miles, which is perfect. Not enough time to sweat and long enough … Continue reading →

Last night at work we finally released our next big product. It’s called meebo rooms. It’s basically just a bunch of chat rooms. What’s good about it? Completely web-based, no need to download anything Can be used anonymously, no need … Continue reading →

Call me crotchety, but I feel like C is the only language that should be used for software that could ever be required to be scalable. So like, servers and stuff. I guess I’m ok with C++, too. I just … Continue reading →

The Beryl window manager (geeky Unix computer stuff) is freaking incredible. It’s one of those new-fangled 3d window managers. You know how OS-X has the fancy expose stuff and all that jazz? It’s sort of like that, but for Linux. … Continue reading →

I ripped 12 CDs yesterday. I encoded them in the FLAC format instead of mp3. It’s a lossless audio compression format, so the files are a bit bigger than mp3s. The average comes out to about 330MB per album. With … Continue reading →

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but meebo, the company I work for, is hiring! We’re looking for rad C/C++ developers. If you’ve contributed some stellar code to any large C or C++ project, and you know your … Continue reading →

Sometimes people ask how they can get started working on an open source project. Start off small! It’s much easier to get acquainted with a hoard of source code if your goal is to change something small. If you try … Continue reading →