I like to listen to tunes while I’m working. And my choice of tunes is often something I can play loud with lots of guitars and screaming! I recently started using Lala and Napster to try out new music and they’re worth a mention here. Lala Lala is a combination streaming service and music store. You’ll need a computer to play music through the browser. It works fine on OmniWeb on OS X. When you create a free account you get 50 song “credits” with Lala. You can play any song on Lala once for free, but if you want to add...

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is officially cancelled. That makes me sad. SCC was a really great show. I find it ironic that given all the hype surrounding Terminator: Salvation (which opens tomorrow) that the TV show could not find a big enough audience. What was up with the CG of the sub leaving the island on the next-to-last episode (Follow the Leader) of Lost this season? It was laughably bad and looked like it was done on an Amiga! I can’t stop listening to the new Green Day album, 21st Century Breakdown. According to iTunes, I’ve...

Woo-hoo, I finally broke 1,000 reputation on StackOverflow. And I’m now over 300 reputation on ServerFault (StackOverflow for IT questions; it’s still in private beta right now). http://stackoverflow.com/users/25615/paul-lefebvre

Has anyone had much luck selling stuff on Craigslist? It seems like it would be a fabulous way to sell things, but I tried selling an older laptop on it last month and it proved to be nothing but a headache. Is there some trick to it? 99% of all the responses I got were from scammers wanting me to ship the laptop somewhere, usually Nigeria. In the end, I ended up donating the laptop to my church to help raise money at the Christmas Fair. That proved far more satisfying. I have bought a few things from Craigslist (Asus eee PC, Apple Cinema Display and recently...

Currently there are a whole slew of Mac OS X browsers in beta right now: Safari 4, Firefox 3.1/3.5, Camino 2.0 and OmniWeb 5.9sp. After playing around with them a bit, here’s a brief overview: Safari 4 SunSpider Score: 790ms When this beta was released by Apple a couple weeks ago it caught everyone by surprise. I’ve never been a big Safari user, so I figured it would be pretty safe for me to test out. Unfortunately for me, it has a strange issue with Mail.app and GrowlMail causing Mail to crash when it checks for new mail (here’s a workaround). Safari...

Yesterday, SQLite Migrator 1.2.0 was released. SQLite is a great database engine, but migrating to it brings some hassles. With SQLite Migrator, it’s a simple 3 step process to migrate from nearly any database to SQLite: Select your Source Database Select the destination SQLite database Cick Migrate That’s it. There are a few options you can tweak such as the source database encoding and whether to create accompanying text files for the SQL CREATE TABLE commands and source data. It’s fast and easy! We have customers using SQLite Migrator...

A little over 1 year ago, I wrote about my decision to leave the full-time corporate world and start working for myself. It proved to be one of my most popular posts, so I thought it would be good to have a one-year follow-up. After one year, I can absolutely say that I really should have done this a lot sooner. Working for myself, at home has been a lot of work, but it has been incredibly fun. I actually look forward to starting work each day! I absolutely love working at home and being able to set my own schedule. In the summer, I could enjoy a nice...

Last week, SQLite Migrator 1.1.0 was released. New features include: Export CREATE TABLE commands as SQL files Export all data as tab-delmited files Specify encoding of source data Easier ordering You can learn more here.

I am pleased to announce the release of SQLite Migrator, the quick and easy way to migrate your databases to SQLite. I really like SQLite and I use it on a lot of custom client projects. It’s really becoming a popular database solution as it’s now used with several development environments, including Adobe Flex/Air, Google Gears, Apple Cocoa (CoreData), REALbasic and more. I’ve found that it’s common for people to already have data in a database (such as Access or FoxPro) and really need to get it into a more standard, cross-platform...

On Tuesday morning, I awoke to find that two of my web sites had been hacked. They had some malicious JavaScript embedded into the HTML on several pages. At first I thought it was due to a security hole in WordPress and spent the rest of the day cleaning up the mess and upgrading to WordPress 2.7. Alas, that wasn’t the problem. Yesterday my hosting company (FatCow) posted a notice that they were reseting all FTP passwords on the main accounts for “security reasons”. That’s not the end of the world, but a hassle to be sure. But...