Darius Kruythoff ← Rantings of the absent-minded

iPadding: Setup

Jun

2011

So, today we had our iPad delivered. As I feared, the thing is useless without iTunes. Roughly, this means that anyone using only Linux can go DIAF. Stubborn as I am, I decided to try a Windows VM. As expected, iTunes installation went fine. However, VirtualBox OSE (found in the Ubuntu repositories) doesn’t have USB ...

Cross domain AJAX with Apache’s mod_proxy

May

2011

Today I sidetracked on a quest to set up some Javascript widgets to mainly play with animation and study CSS transitions. Since I wanted to set up a picture slideshow, I decided to use Flickr’s API to load random pictures. Now, for some unexplainable reason, I keep forgetting that AJAX calls cannot be made to ...

Words are worse

Apr

2011

A Westport Junior High School student has posted a YouTube video called “Words are worse than Sticks and Stones” to fight off her bullies. Meet Alye. A 13-year-old girl from Westport, Conneticut. This girl, like too many other teens, is going through hell at school because of bullying. Well, this girl was brave enough to speak out. ...

Back from the dead

Mar

2011

It’s still breathing! After the hellish period right after Odin’s birth, I kind of forgot about this blog and focused solely on work, diapers and bottles. Now, as I’ve started entrepreneuring with Hectius, I figured I’d better update this thing. Besides messing with this blog, I’ve taken it upon myself to learn how to implement ...

No news is good news?

Sep

2009

As anyone who cares might have guessed, Odin’s been home for a while. I’ve been meaning to update here, but never get around to it. Be it work, daddy duties, or lack of commitment, there’s always something. Anyway, Odin’s doing fine. He’s off the medicine by now, and growing like weed. :-)

Odin: Coming home

May

2009

Well, seems Odin will see his house tomorrow, they very day he was expected to be born. We already hung up decorations, and pumped up the biggest stork I’ve ever seen, but sceptic as we are, seeing’s still believing. After all manner of monitoring and testing, the doctors were unable to find out what speeds ...

Odin: Waiting to come home

May

2009

As some of you may know, our son Odin was born this April 30th. Later that same day, it seems he turned blue when having his blood checked. Following this, he got sent to the newborn’s IC for checking. Later on, he got sent to MC. He had some dips in his oxygen saturation, and ...

Blog set up!

Apr

2009

Yay, got the thing installed! Now to design a personal look for it…