I was awake for an hour and a half in the middle of the night last night which didn’t do much for getting me a good night’s sleep, but being awake gave me an opportunity to babysit the Handbrake jobs running in the living room on all three computers, to read an issue of eWeek …
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June 20, 2008: Introducing HandBrake Helper
Oreo was incredibly tired as Dominica dragged him off to daycare this morning. He was giving me the big, sad puppy dog eyes saying “save me daddy” which he does when he really, really wants to just stay home and sleep. He doesn’t know that on days when he goes to daycare that I get …
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June 19, 2008: House Hunting in Peekskill
Today is Oreo’s one day at home with me all week. He has been exhausted. He was not happy when he and I had to get up early this morning so that we could drive Dominica to work in Totowa, New Jersey. He had been hoping that he would be able to just stay in …
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June 18, 2008: Firefox Breaks All Records
We did it guys! Yay! FireFox was hoping to reach five million downloads yesterday and ended up powering on to a full seven million. Talk about a busy day. Downloads were so abundant that it appears that FireFox 3 not only overtook a huge amount of the FireFox 2 market but may also have expanded …
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June 17, 2008: Nothing Special
Today is a big day in the open source software world. Firefox 3.0 releases today and the foundation is hoping to be able to set the largest number of downloads in a single day records. Also, Wine 1.0 finally released today after fifteen years in the works. Wine is a complete rewrite of the Windows …