| Brit Gardner ::: Web Developer ::: Dallas, TX

7 May

funniest thing heard on the radio this morning, “Why do a Platypus built like that?” Fake Josh Howard on 1310 the Ticket #
the highly animated Sprint ad on Pandora absolutely destroys my CPU, anyone else have this problem? can’t wait until it’s gone. #pandora #
doh, I’m still mired in SVN land. I don’t want a git commit hook, I want a git update hook. #
working on a git pre-commit hook that’ll fire off s3sync on my static files. Will share if it becomes useful #
Got Windows 7 up and running on a Parallels VM. So far feels more responsive and stable than XP VMs… wishful thinking? #

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