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A serious bloggable delay, powering down!

July 25, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
KLM

No matter how well you plan something and how much detail you put into it, there are always things that can throw things off. While most of the detail planning of the new office is still valid, the general timing is going to be way off thanks to an unforeseen relocation to a new location. A new location that at the time of writing has not been found yet, I should add. Recent discoveries about our place in California has left us no other option than to find a more suitable location. I’ll spare you all the details regarding the sub-standard piss-poor third-world electrical wiring. Instead, let me just tell you there’s no way in seven hells I’d consider hooking up a ton of expensive computer equipment to the electrical network as it is. And the required overhaul is not what I would ever consider spending on a rental. We had several electricians check things out and provide quotes for the kind of overhaul required to bring the place up to snuff.

Filed Under: Home Office, Personal, Rant Tagged With: California, El Cerrito, Electrical, Electricity, Fire Hazard, Fuses, Inspection, Panel, Third World, Wiring

Do not host with WorldStream! Thanks BREIN!

February 22, 2011 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 5

That, dear WorldStream, is what got you knocked off my shortlist. You have shown that you can’t be trusted to host anything, much less the important corporate data and development systems I might have otherwise chosen you to host for me. Needless to say, I am recommending to everyone else not to use this company for any hosting activities because it should be clear that your data and continuation of business might be at risk if a company is this negligent about its responsibilities towards its customers. Oh, and BREIN, thank you for breaking the law and showing yourself as ordinary criminals. If you had not done so I would have potentially picked StreamWorld as my new host.

Filed Under: Personal, Rant, The Web Tagged With: Dedicated, Hosting, Internet, Servers, WorldStream

Plug’em if ya Got’em

February 15, 2011 by Stefan Didak 4 Comments
Dorotaya & Bill Sample Photograph

What good is a website with bazillion of visitors from all over the world when you don’t have something to plug? My soon-to-be mother-in-law and her soon-to-be-husband are avid photographers that have really been busy with taking more pictures and setting up their online portfolio’s. Since it’s no secret that I’m a camera-bag stuffer and serious about my hobby that involves wielding big lenses and heavy gear it may not come as a surprise that I’m plugging Dorataya’s website and Bill’s Art By Camera sites.

Filed Under: Personal, Photography, The Web Tagged With: Photographs, Photography, Plug

Do not fear, this is the correct web-site!

February 4, 2011 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
The Old Stefan Didak Website

I know. I understand. Don’t worry, though! You really did reach the correct web-site. If you’re a new visitor to the site, fine, ignore all of this. If you’re a regular or recurring visitor, then yes, you will notice there’s something a little different. I decided that since hand coding my website style and design in 2006 it was time for an overhaul (wouldn’t you agree if you see all those old websites that look like they still live in the mid 90’s?). Not just the style but the functionality too. I would like to say it was a huge effort but I found it to be a rather smooth and easy experience and I’ve always said, I’m not a web-guy or web-designer of any kind. But I suspect that having done “rocket science stuff” for so long makes everything feel like it’s a lesser complexity

Filed Under: Personal, The Web Tagged With: Graphics, News, Overhaul, Personal, Style, Website, WordPress

Mac OSX Experiences From The Dark Side

September 9, 2010 by Stefan Didak 3 Comments
Stefan Didak Home Office Version 6

Yes, it’s true. Get over it already. I bought an Apple Macintosh. A 27 inch 2.93Ghz Quad Core i7 with 8GB RAM, 1TB HD, and HD5750-1GB. I understand this has caused several people to exhibit signs of severe confusion because I’m really mostly known as a “Windows Guy” (more appropriately, a .NET guy). For a little while I’ll refrain from posting any pictures, though. Wouldn’t want people to die from either laughter or heart-attacks.

Filed Under: Funny, Hardware, Home Office Tagged With: Apple, Experience, Home Office, iMac, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Mobile, OSX, Software Development

Adaptive Infinity trying to intimidate a blogger over a comment?

September 4, 2010 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Outrage!

I just learned that John P. (you know, the founder of HTMLHelp.com and a person instrumental to the early development of HTML and CSS) has received a rather intimidating letter from Adaptive Infinity in which they are threatening John with a legal suit over a comment that someone left on his blog while at the same time showing a different, less threatening face, on John’s blog by leaving the following comments. Clearly using his blog for their own PR and marketing purposes and perhaps as a means to perform some kind of amateurish corporate damage control.

Filed Under: Rant, The Web Tagged With: Blogging, Comments, Corporate, Criticism, Legal, Threats, Website

Mitch Haile and Stefan Didak in one frame

May 29, 2010 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
Mitch Haile and Stefan Didak

Let’s put an end to the strange tabloid style rumors on the internet that have implied that Mitch Haile and yours truly are mortal enemies engaged in a complete and all-out home office war. I don’t know who first came up with that nonsense but before it gets out of hand it’s good to pull the plug on that fake gossip story. We met up for drinks the other day at BJ’s across from the Apple HQ in Cupertino. And no, nobody needs to worry about that. Non-Apple users are welcome in Cupertino and there aren’t hordes of fans that scope out unsuspecting PC users. You can blame Sallie Goetsch, practicing with her new Nikon, for the picture.

Filed Under: Home Office, Personal, Restaurants, Travel Tagged With: Cupertino, Drinks, Nikon, Photographs, Pictures, Restaurant, Rumors, Travel, USA

Pearl Aday and Scott Ian at the Red Devil Lounge in San Franscico

May 12, 2010 by Stefan Didak 2 Comments
Pearl Aday and Scott Ian at the Red Devil Lounge in San Franscico

Last night we had a great time at the Red Devil Lounge in San Francisco where we were to see Pearl & Scott Ian and members of the Rollins Band perform some great kick-ass rock. It was an amazing performance and it was great to meet with Pearl and husband Scott Ian. Or, as Sallie put it, “she’s such a sweet girl”, and I happen to agree. One that rocks the wood panels off any stage, that is. This is not the first time Pearl gets two thumbs up from me, though. It’s been great to see her go from the “Broken Thorny Crown” album to the improved debut album, “Little Immaculate White Fox”.

Filed Under: Personal, Travel Tagged With: Drinks, Entertainment, Fun, Loud, Music, Pearl Aday, Rock, San Francisco, USA, Video

Autodesk Acquires Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM from 3AM Solutions

January 5, 2010 by Stefan Didak 1 Comment
3am Solutions Dynamite VSP 4.0

SAN RAFAEL, California, Jan 5, 2010 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced that it has completed the acquisition of Dynamite VSP and Dynamite SIM visualization software products and related assets. The products were purchased from 3AM Solutions, a UK-based privately owned technology company that develops visualization software for civil infrastructure. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Filed Under: Personal, Software, Software Development, Windows Software Tagged With: Autodesk, Civil, Civil 3D, Dynamite, Engineering, Graphics, Press Release, Product, Software, Visualization

Expert maker of Sazeracs

June 30, 2009 by Stefan Didak Leave a Comment
The Sazerac Cocktail

In 1940, the Official Sazerac Cocktail recipe was modified to use Herbsaint as the absinthe. Finally, in 2000, the Official Sazerac Cocktail recipe was modified to use Sazerac Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey. In 2009 I had to change a few things because it was impossible to get hold of a bottle of 18yr old Sazerac Rye Whiskey. Instead I substituted Rittenhouse Rhy andOld Overholt Rye. While not as smooth as the Sazerac Rye it gets the job done and done well! If you need bar supplies and some of the finest ingredients and liquors you could find, you definitely have to try Cask in San Francisco.

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: Cocktails, Drinks, Mixology, Peychaud, Sazerac
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