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Riding My Bike

By barneyb on June 13, 2007

No, not my motorcycle, an actual bicycle. With the move last month, I'm now just shy of 10 miles from the office, which is a far more reasonable bicycle commute than the 20+ I was before. Not to say that 20 miles is an incredibly long ride, but more than I'd want to [...]

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Adobe's *@(#*&$ Browser Requirements

By barneyb on April 28, 2007

This chaps my @$$ every time I have to set up a new server.  Adobe's site simply blocks if you don't have a JS enabled browser.  I never install a GUI on my servers (why should I?), and every time I need to install CF, I'm stuck downloading it to my local machine, and then [...]

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Where have I been?

By barneyb on April 21, 2007

I've been posting very little this year, and figured I'd take a bit of down time this rainy Saturday for a "personal update" kind of post. Big things first:
As many people know, I started a new job at Mentor Graphics at the beginning of the year. A rather big change moving from a [...]

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Taco Wagon Map

By barneyb on April 12, 2007

I love taco wagons, but I can never find them.  So I made a taco wagon map on Google Maps' new My Maps feature.  There's no collaboration features built into it yet, unfortunately, but if you know of other wagons, let me know and I'll add them.

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Windows Strikes Again

By barneyb on March 19, 2007

So I just got a new HP Pavilion laptop, running Vista.  First thing to do out of the box (after waiting the 15 minutes for Windows to start the first time) was connect to the network.  No dice.  Tried everything I could think of.  Guess what fixed it.
Reboot!
Glad to know I won't have to learn [...]

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No More Cell Phone

By barneyb on December 25, 2006

As of the end of the year, my cell phone will no longer work.  It was a company phone and since I'm leaving, I won't be keeping it.  If I replace it, I'll get a Portland number instead of my old Bellingham number, so my current number will stop working regardless.  However, I figure if [...]

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Barney "No Ball" Boisvert

By barneyb on December 8, 2006

Due to the unending courtesy of Sim, I am now known as "no ball", it seems.  I want to clarify that I do have balls (two of them, to be precise), and that they are in perfect working order.  The only change is that the sperm they produce will no longer be leaving my body.  [...]

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The State of the Barney

By barneyb on December 7, 2006

Another year draws to a close and I thought I'd take the time to do a general update of my life for the world.
Top of mind is that I'm leaving AudienceCentral for Mentor Graphics at the end of the year. The past five years have been great, and the company has some huge potential [...]

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Moving Time Again…

By barneyb on December 7, 2006

It's just about the turn of the year, and as you all know, that's the time of year for major life changes.  Giving myself a 20 day window around new years (from Dec 20 to Jan 10), the past six years have included these events:

The end of my swimming career
The purchase of our first house
The [...]

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Google Notebook

By barneyb on October 26, 2006

For those of you not aware, Google Notebook is a little online notebook for keeping track of "stuff" while you're online.  What's kind of neat about it, however, is the way that you use it.  In addition to the main interface, you can get a browser plugin that will open a mini-interface on whatever page [...]

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