USTA 4.5 2011
I had a great season of USTA 4.5 tennis this year. Counting the three matches I played this weekend in Houston (Little State) I went 10-1 ! Not bad for the last year as a junior. Next year I qualify for senior leagues!
Thanks to my tennis partners: Clay Johnson, Steve Gilmer (we went 3-0 in Little State), Russ Needler and James Bronson.
And thanks to Gentry Sparling for captaining our team and to Darrell Breeden for all his help this season and for scheduling most of my practice matches.
Confluence for collaboration
My company is standardizing on Atlassian products such as Jira (for issue tracking), and Confluence for Wikis and collaboration. I have yet to use a system that works better than a simple blog with categories, pages and RSS feeds. I mean what is better than subscribing to a Page, Category (or tag) and contributing to the comment thread of a post you are interested in.
So far, I’m finding Confluence’s support for blogs leaving much to be desired. Starting with the fact you can’t subscribe to feeds with many readers since they require authentication and many (such as Google Reader) don’t support authenticated feeds.
Here is one option that uses a proxy
I tend to agree with Scott that a wiki without RSS feeds is a non starter. Email notifications? I find it funny that Confluence promotes itself as a solution for email chaos but then offer it as the primary mechanism for notifications.
You should completely drain your battery once a month
“For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).”
“Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time.” It adds that, if you don’t drain and recharge your Mac laptop in the course of normal usage, “Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month.”
Of course, many iPhone users find that it’s easy to completely run the battery down…
Kristen’s 10u All-star season
Kristen wrapped up her baseball All Star season with a triple and double (:23) in their only win in the double elimination tournament. They only won 1 of 9 pool-play games which served to seed teams for the season ending tournament. The LT Rookie Cavs had to play the #1 seed being the #8 seed. The only game they won during pool play was against the only team that the #1 seed lost to during pool play! The Cavs only lost 4-6 to the #1 seed who ended up winning the tournament. The tournament was held at the beautiful Round Rock Youth fields near the Dell Diamond
Link to playlist of Kristen’s all All-Star game highlights.
LTYA Rookie (10u) Mets Win Post Season Tournament
The Cardinals beat us in the 2nd round but after defeating the Rays in the loser’s bracket, we faced the Cardinals in the championship game, won, and played them two hours later and beat them decisively 19-7 to win the tournament.
David vs JR
This is a video I made from a 1 on 1 XBOX Halo 3 cage match between David and a friend. I had recently watched the movie Inside Man with Clive Owen where the song Chaiyya Chaiyya was featured. I liked the song and knew I’d find a video to use it in.
Kristen’s Breakout game. No turning back now.
Kristen shoots 63% to score 30 of her team’s 38 points. For the first time she drives to the basket, and sinks several shots from the outside. This was her first time playing organized basketball. Every team had 1 or 2 HotShot players. She did not make the HotShots team.
Snow Day Feb 4, 2011 and 1973!
It snowed last night!
Checkout the Snow Day from 1973 on Loyola Lane. Click the picture for a slideshow of that day.
Mac Spaces
I’m digging the Spaces feature of the Mac OS. I should have been using this a long time ago!
If you are unfamiliar with Spaces, the feature gives you multiple “virtual” windows that you can switch between.
It’s like having multiple monitors connected to your computer each with different views of your running apps.
In the Settings for Spaces I redefined the hotkeys that switches between spaces. It was assigned to <Ctrl>arrows but that prevented me from using those hotkeys to move around (word advance) in Visual Studio (using VMWare). I reassigned the hotkey to be <option>arrows which had the added benefit of disabling Windows 7 hotkey to resize the current window (which I find annoying).