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Central Perk in El Cerrito

September 23, 2007 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Central Perk El Cerrito

OK, this is not really a restaurant review but it’s a place worth visiting if you’re ever in El Cerrito, California. What do you do for coffee in California? Go to Peets, of course. Unless you don’t care about coffee and how it should taste, in which case, people like that go to Starbucks. However, a rather interesting coffee place in El Cerrito, called Central Perk, is definitely worth a visit. The entire shop is filled with all sorts of toys, fun stuff, decorations, everything including a kitchen sink, basically. And everything you see in the store is for sale. Care to get one of those huge Sully characters from Monsters, Inc., well, at Central Perk you can. The place has closed since we’ve been there. Maybe we’re cursed?!

Filed Under: Personal, Restaurants, Travel Tagged With: California, Coffee, Drinks, El Cerrito, Fun, Restaurant, Review

Short List of PowerShell Resources

September 6, 2007 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
PowerShell

I’ve recently been really getting into PowerShell and investigating its potential as a new automation and scripting platform for the countless command line based processes I’m running all the time. The first thing I did was purchase a copy of PowerShell Analyzer, which I think is one of the most valuable tools for anyone getting serious about digging into PowerShell’s object paradigm. And while you’re checking out PowerShell Analyzer, check out what the Shell Tools guys are working on; PowerShell Plus. Amazing stuff.

Filed Under: Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Administration, Automation, Commandline, Microsoft, Powershell, Server, Software, Software Development, Windows

SniperX: Office Impersonator

September 4, 2007 by Stefan Didak 4 Comments
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 5

This is hillarious. Someone going around on some web forum and calling himself SniperX has been passing off my home office as his ‘gaming rig’. Check out what he’s been writing. Of course, what SniperX hasn’t realized is the fact that my office is famous enough that a lot of people have seen it and can spot someone representing it as their own. Bruno was kind enough to call out SniperX on his “bull manure” and bust him. The best part is when SniperX writes about his reason for posting images of my office, in his own words “people did not believe me when i told them my make and model of machine, so i posted it”. OK, that’s enough entertainment for me today.

Filed Under: Funny Tagged With: Comments, Copyright, Forum, Home Office, Images, Impersonation, Infringement, Misrepresentation, Photographs

Development with ADD, CDD, CYAE, DBD, GMPM

June 22, 2007 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Confessions Of A Public Speaker, Scott Berkun

What do you mean you’ve never heard of those groundbreaking development methodologies? Well, perhaps you haven’t but I do think you should check them out if you’ve got a minute so Scott Berkun can explain these to you in detail. I would like to add, OOCDD, Out Of Control Driven Development. Unlike most methodologies, it’s an encapsulated methodology that derives from all others. Especially considering how out of control development gets, regardless of methodology.

Filed Under: Software Development Tagged With: Engineering, Management, Personal, Software, Software Development, Web-bits

Hello Flickr!

May 6, 2007 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Stefan Didak's Photography on Flickr

After trying to figure out what to do with my photography pages and debating whether I should install an album module or write one myself like the quick hack that has been part of my site since I created it I’ve settled on using Flickr. I’ve uploaded a lot of my older shots and will continue to update it with new material as time permits. Anyone who feels the need to check out what I like to do and see when I’m not working in my home office, feel free to browse my photo collections at Flickr via my pictures page or through the following links.

Filed Under: Personal, Photography, The Web Tagged With: Exposure, Flickr, Fun, Gear, Hobby, Images, Nikon, Photographs, Photography, Travel

Amusing copyright infringement

April 4, 2007 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
bmhelli1s

Two days ago a friend of mine alerted me to a video he saw on a web portal of an ISP that had started a video service for its customers that is similar to YouTube and Google Video. One of the videos there, uploaded by a user that goes by the name of “bmhelli” (according to this and his website, Bernard Marius Hellinga a.k.a. Bernard Helli. from a town called Ermelo in The Netherlands) contained two TV commercials that were appended together. One introducing some kind of big hamburger, the other commercial being of a topless woman acting out stereotypical male behavior.

Filed Under: Infringer Tagged With: Copyright, Dutch, Home Office, Images, Infringement, Office Thief, Pictures, The Netherlands, Theft, Thief, Thieves, Video, Website

Home Office Usage Scenarios #1 and #2

April 3, 2007 by Stefan Didak 11 Comments
MXposed

People have asked me to write something about some of the typical usage scenarios that I often find myself in at my home office. Since those are generally not easy to explain in a few words and since they could otherwise fill up the FAQ page a lot I’ve decided to just write them as posts in the blog and relink those back from the FAQ page for details. Note: This was written when I was using the old setup, not the new setup, so details now vary but the general idea of the content here is still the same and as applicable as it was before.

Filed Under: Home Office Tagged With: Home Office, Multi-Monitor, Programming, Reverse Engineering, Software, Software Development, Usage, Visual Studio, Windows

Check out "The Silent City"

February 19, 2007 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
The Silent City

Oscar nominated artist Ruairi Robinson has posted the full version of his live action short film, “The Silent City” for all to see. Ruairi wrote, directed, edited, and storyboarded the entire film and has done 95% of the visual effects (which, as usual, are stunning). The film stars Don Wycherley (from Batchelors Walk), Cillian Murphy (28 Days, Later, Sunshine, Batman Begins, Breakfast on Pluto), and Garvan McGrath. Besides the high definition video, make sure you check out some of the visual effects wizardry performed by Ruairi by checking out the before and after shots. And while you’re at it, check out the humorous FAQ that is featured on his website. A little word of warning… graphic detail not suitable for children and strong language will be found anywhere in the vicinity of anything remotely related to Ruairi. But that’s the way we know and like Ruairi and we hope he never changes that edge.

Filed Under: The Web Tagged With: 3D, CGI, Effects, FX, Graphics, Ruairi, Visual

Battle of the Offices : Ballmer vs. Didak

February 8, 2007 by Stefan Didak 15 Comments
Steve Ballmer's Office

Someone just sent me a link explaining that over in Russia there is a competition going whereby my Home Office is being compared with that of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer. Unfortunately I can’t read a single word of Russian so I’ve got no clue what the battle of the offices is about but I thought it was rather hillarious! See for yourself! There are, of course, other people who fell for the Russian joke and actually do think that this is Mr. Ballmer’s office. Unfortunately (for Steve!), he probably wouldn’t feel very much at home in my office… there are computers here that run Linux, you see. That might be too much to handle and cope with.

Filed Under: Funny, Home Office, Personal, The Web Tagged With: Fun, Home Office, Images, Microsoft, Pictures, Steve Ballmer, Website, Windows

Surge in Traffic and Troops

February 3, 2007 by Stefan Didak 12 Comments
Web Statistics

Today I noticed, while looking at the web logs, that there has been a tremendous increase in traffic generated by the Home Office and FAQ pages. I knew that for some reason it has been linked to a lot and draws a steady number of visitors but the traffic over the past few days is off the scale. Just over a 24 hour period of Feb 01 to Feb 02 the logs show a total of 19.355MB got served. 19GB of traffic? Wow. Most of the traffic didn’t show its origins so I’m not clear on that. Two weeks ago some 4.5GB was served mostly to visitors from Poland (all the *.pl domains in the log) but as of the past two days traffic is coming from all over the globe. Maybe I should start a reverse tracking page that automatically keeps a list of all the incoming links.

Filed Under: Home Office, Personal, The Web Tagged With: Bandwidth, Home Office, Statistics, Traffic, Visitors, Website
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