My Replacement Moleskine! Originally uploaded by vanRijn Dude, seriously, my faith is much more than restored in Moleskine due to this. I had blogged previously about the premature death of my beloved Moleskine, and had forgotten all about Moleskine’s excellent warranty. Well, I e-mailed them and exactly as they’d promised, today I received a brand new, replacement Moleskine straight from Milano, Italy. Awesome!!! I know I’m a gushing fanboy, but as of this moment, I am a Moleskine customer for life. If only every company had this kind of commitment to their product and excellent customer service!

My apologies to Huey Lewis and the News. And warning: this is a wandering, brain-dumping, meandering post which may very well be of no interest to you. There’s nothing like spending the weekend in a hospital to give you a little perspective. I blogged previously about feeling dizzy and nauseous, and I attributed it to the in-ear, sound-isolating headphones that I bought. Well, I don’t think that said headphones were the cause as much as a possible contributing factor. Things got so bad on Friday (I couldn’t even sit still without the room spinning on me and me feeling like I had to throw up) that I went to the local Emergency Room, which led to my being admitted into Read more…

100_5656 Originally uploaded by vanRijn I’ve been looking for a better screen protector for my PSP than the one I had (a Hori) and was just about to go out and spend $20 on an Invisible Shield, but I found people talking about using 3m Scotchgard instead. It’s certainly less expensive, and if it works, $11 gives me more than enough for everything I could possibly want to cover (Palm Treo, PSP, 3 iPods, Swatch watch, etc.). So I gave it a shot. Pretty good results too! In my first trial run, I used Windex to apply the Scotchgard to the PSP and there were really tiny bubbles that I just couldn’t get out. But the second time, I used Read more…

The Hori screen protector that I have on my PSP has managed to become poked and has subsequently created a bubble on my PSP’s screen. So I was looking at getting an InvisibleShield screen protector, being that they’re all but bullet-proof. And then I saw a couple of crazy nuts that talked about just buying some 3m Scotchgard sheets (you know… the stuff they put on the fronts of cars now to protect them from rocks, dirt, and small farm animals) and cutting it to size and saving vast amounts of coin. Wellsir, that’s just crazy enough that it simply has to work! So I scoured around a bit and came across this little gem to help you Prep Your Read more…

Now, this one I’m really speaking out of the side of my head on… This is totally based on first impressions of NetBeans, albeit after 3<x<5 hours have been invested in said first impressions… I’ve been using Eclipse and CDT for a while for my day job at VMware (which, by the by, totally rocks!!!). And for the most part, Eclipse+CDT really does a nice job at helping me maneuver around our very large code base and lowering the learning curve after I’ve figured out how to teach it about include paths that it can’t figure out on its own. As a C++ IDE, it’s very nice, responsive, stable, and it definitely helps in learning the code base via being Read more…