Each year my department at Google runs a ski trip. Just for fun. Well, there’s a obligatory dinner with a raffle and the usual sort of stuff like that, but otherwise actual fun. This year it’s at Squaw. I’ve been to Squaw once before, but only for dinner; never skiied, on the basis that it’s… Read more
It’s hard to make excuses for not doing it, now that winter is largely passed, and Marisa rides with me. :) The only downside is that she then has to ride home by herself. It’s a shame there’s not a decent breakfast joint anywhere near work (Google cafes, being “free”, aren’t open to friends and… Read more
Marisa & I have been riding a little bit, for a few months now. We try to go at least once a week, generally on weekends. Today we rode to Stanford University, and then around the campus. Marisa hadn’t really been there before. It was quite a nice, sunny day, perfect for riding. We happened… Read more
I’ve been trying to make use of iCloud in an iOS app over the last couple of weeks, and it’s been absolutely infuriating. There’s a large volume of documentation, but it’s not very good, and it’s incomplete. So let’s run down the laundry list: Entitlements Getting the entitlements to work is, in general, an incredible… Read more
One good thing about working at Google has been that I’ve finally learnt Python. Properly. Which means I can whip up, in just a couple of minutes, a tested & documented script to, say, replace ~2,500 HTML files with redirects. So now anyone using an old link to any HTML page under https://homepage.mac.com/wadetregaskis will get… Read more
It’s been many years since I noted down my 25 most played songs (in iTunes, anyway). The list has an immense amount of inertia behind it, so there’s now things in that I typically skip, but enough has changed since the last posting that I think it has meaning. Also, I really don’t trust my… Read more
WordPress apparently has no understanding of time zones, at least in the sense that makes sense – it displays all times in the local time of the viewer (at least, I hope it does… the alternative is that it displays all times as PST, which would be highly suspect). So all my old, imported posts,… Read more