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Does anybody else love their computer?

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:30:43 GMT

Ok, maybe love is too strong of a word.
But I seriously am digging my laptop these days.

I routinely have this feeling that my laptop is a part of me. I work on it all day, then do side work/projects at night...my hands are attached to this thing. Not only that, but I absolutely love the KDE desktop now that I have taken the time to get used to it.

Running Linux (various flavors in the past, but currently running Kubuntu (Edgy Eft)) has really allowed me to get familiar with the machine. Some by choice, some because I had to do some minor tweaking to get all the parts working like they should.

It isn't the best and brightest machine out there, but it does the trick for me. 1.86 ghz Centrino, 2gb DDR2 RAM, 60gb hard drive. At times I think about how cool it would be to get a duo core with a bigger display, but then I wonder if I will miss this laptop when it dies.

Does anybody else form a bond to their machine?

See pics and a review of my favorite machine at: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2408

EDIT: I no longer have this laptop, stay tuned for some info about my new-to-me Dell XPS lappy.

Are you running out of code?

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:08:34 GMT

I was thinking...there are limits to everything. We have a limited number of heart beats in this life, and it follows that we have a limited number of key-strokes.

I am lucky that I have such an understanding wife who doesn't gripe, too much, about how fanatical I am about programming the “fun stuff” (InstantSpot mainly, but any work that is for my own company!). I also count myself lucky to be dedicated to full-time new development while we (at the day job) have all the bug-fixing responsibilities owned by other developers.

-Is programming just a job to you?
-Do you care that you are running out of time to write that next great app?
-If you do care, are you stuck bug-fixing all day instead of creating?

Maybe I am just in a weird mood...who knows. But, I think web application development is fun.

Robots and main page accessibility

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT

On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older "news items" was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first).

A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.

In a possibly related subject, a Google search for 'Aaron Lynch' now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns www.AaronJLynch.com as #3!

Does anybody want my autograph?

UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board!