http://linkstew.org See Stew. See Stew link. Link, Stew, link! Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:37:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twenty some odd days of San Francisco, Wofford Heights, Magic Mountain, Korea, a little more SF and many more airports later, and I'm back in Dublin only suffering mildly from the effects of jetlag. With the nap from 1600 to 2230 my first day back and the subsequent waking ... http://linkstew.org/2009/01/icn-nrt-lax-sfo-ord-dub/ It's somehow reassuring that after a year it looks like Amtrak's made even less progress on their scheduling algorithms than I have in blogging (where last year's post about this is still on the front page): That's right: the default selection it's now offering is a worse schedule that costs ... http://linkstew.org/2008/12/amtrak-scheduling-2008/ Now the parts of San Francisco I frequented weren't exactly known for large populations of children, so when I started encountering the kids in Dublin, I wondered if all kids were such punks, or if the kids in Dublin were special. I eventually noticed people were calling them "knackers," ... http://linkstew.org/2008/11/damn-knackers/ "You know, you'd think that after all of those conversations we've had about voltage and electricity..." I said on arrival at work the other morning. "What'd you blow up now?" Jeff asked. But back up: I was so excited when I got my air shipment that I immediately pulled out my ... http://linkstew.org/2008/10/on-irish-electricity/ One of the questions people seemed intent on asking me immediately after my arrival in Dublin was "how are you settling in?" "You mean to this place where I've only been living for a week?" I'd retort. For the better part of my first month here there were a lot of obstacles ... http://linkstew.org/2008/10/the_sound_of_settling/ "2 counties to halt all weddings, gay or not," the headline I read over Rick's shoulder said. "Is one of them Kern!?" I asked excitedly, skimming ahead; "Of course it is." "Due to lack of resources?" Rick muttered; "That's a pretty flimsy argument." "I think I'd go right past 'flimsy' and ... http://linkstew.org/2008/06/2-counties-to-halt-all-weddings-gay-or-not/ Getting to Europe Is About to Get Easier - "Ryanair ... has said [they plan] to start a new airline that will fly from secondary European markets like Liverpool or Birmingham to a half-dozen American cities like Baltimore or Providence, R.I., for a base fare as low as 10 euros, ... http://linkstew.org/2008/04/getting-to-europe-is-about-to-get-easier/ Mexicana to Join oneworld Alliance - "Mexicana with the Click Mexicana network will add 26 destinations to the oneworld map -- 24 in Mexico plus Bakersfield (California, USA) and Edmonton (Canada)." Wait, really? Oh, right, the highly lucrative GDL-BFL route. http://linkstew.org/2008/04/mexicana-to-join-oneworld-alliance/ It's kind of hard to believe, but I haven't been snowboarding in very nearly two years. I'm pretty sure that last trip with Rick and Mark and Tomasz was in February 2006, not very long before I moved to SOMA. And then after two dead batteries thanks to ... http://linkstew.org/2008/01/snowboarding-2008/ 2008 Prediction 4: PHP Problems - "A large part of the problem PHP has is that it's evolved substantially over time and doesn't force you to program in a certain way: you never know if you're getting clean object-oriented code or nasty procedural code" [From Commentor Chris Adams] ... http://linkstew.org/2008/01/ongoing-%c2%b7-2008-prediction-4-php-problems/ Finder Drag/Drop bug still around? - I had this problem before Leopard, but Leopard certainly exacerbated it and things deteriorated to the point that I couldn't drag tabs in Firefox or text within TextEdit; that said, I still didn't believe it was Quicksilver's fault until I read this. ... http://linkstew.org/2007/12/os-x-drag-and-drop-problems-explained/ Really, Amtrak? How did you decide to pick the trip that requires a transfer, takes significantly longer, ultimately transfers to the train I wanted anyway, and is the same price as the default option? And don't even get me started on your session handling. http://linkstew.org/2007/12/amtrak-scheduling/