http://www.nilobject.com Jonathan Johnson's experiences in life and development Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:00:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This time of year is always very busy. It lends to draughts in time to post about things, due to one more holiday coming around the corner. Additionally, my writing time has been split between here and Alacatia Labs, which is why there's been a draught here. After a long thought, ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/11/04/my-plans-for-this-blog/ Short post because I'm needing to start work, but Time Warner came out and did the wall-drop installation for the cable, and I must say, they have always had extremely friendly technicians, and they're always very helpful and willing to go into as much detail as you want to pry ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/10/09/cable-drop-verdict/ The Time Warner tech came out yesterday afternoon, and ran a few tests, and determined that the outlet itself was bad. This is of course the last thing I wanted to hear, this being a brand new house. So for now my nicely set up "server closet" has a few ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/10/01/internets-rejoice/ Well, I'm writing this from my iPhone. My internet access has been out for most of the day. I went to bed last night and everything was fine. Got up, and it wasn't working. I got someone on the phone pretty quickly -- I suppose not many people call about ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/09/29/a-day-without-internet/ Ok, it's unforgivable, I know. It's been nearly two months since my last update. But I've been busy, I promise. First and foremost, myself and several others are now officially Alacatia Labs, Inc. It's great working with other people on projects, because it seems that every time I look, there's something ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/09/28/really-jon-2-months/ I bought myself an Xbox 360 a few weeks ago, and as of this morning I bought an Xbox Live account to try out. I just finished playing Catan for 3 straight hours. (!) Unfortunately I lost them all, but they were close matches -- the last one I thought ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/08/04/latest-vice/ Yesterday was my birthday, and now I'm 23 years old. This is my first birthday while being married, and it was definitely the best birthday in the past few years. The last few years I've spent driving and/or recovering from a long trip of some sort. Indeed last year I ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/07/07/another-year/ Found this funny picture on Reddit today. Enjoy. http://www.nilobject.com/2007/07/05/programming-tip-for-the-day/ I'm sitting here relaxing, plugging away at a project of mine, just having eaten some smoked brisket (sadly bought, not made by me) and watched a movie with my wife. We watched The Fountain, a Darren Aronofsky film. I've always been impressed by his films, including Pi and Requiem for ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/ So Erin was playing Super Paper Mario today, and as I finished up with my current job she was stuck on a puzzle I had solved for her before, but I had never taken the time to solve it correctly -- I just messed around until it was solved. I ... http://www.nilobject.com/2007/07/03/algorithm-fun-super-paper-mario-puzzle/