Ben Sternthal & Friends » random http://blog.sternthal.org I am a freelance American Web Engineer and Information Architect living and working in Portland, Oregon. Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Top Gear New Season on Sunday! http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/06/19/top-gear-new-season-on-sunday/ http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/06/19/top-gear-new-season-on-sunday/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:22:40 +0000 ben http://blog.sternthal.org/?p=652 Another advert for the new season on starting sunday (from finalgear.com):

]]> http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/06/19/top-gear-new-season-on-sunday/feed/ 0 Clarkson You Great Oaf! – New Top Gear Season Trailer http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/06/15/clarkson-you-great-oaf-new-top-gear-season-trailer/ http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/06/15/clarkson-you-great-oaf-new-top-gear-season-trailer/#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:00:35 +0000 ben http://blog.sternthal.org/?p=635 I absolutely love Top Gear and the new season looks awesome.

]]> http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/06/15/clarkson-you-great-oaf-new-top-gear-season-trailer/feed/ 0 One Year Living Abroad! http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/05/27/one-year-living-abroad/ http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/05/27/one-year-living-abroad/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 14:07:33 +0000 ben http://blog.sternthal.org/?p=574 I think around May 15th I hit my one year anniversary living in Iceland. I do not get homesick but I do find myself missing certain things I really took for granted back in the US.

So here is my list of random stuff I miss by living in Iceland:

  • Fresh Vegetables
  • Fresh Fruit
  • Vegetables other than potatoes/onions/carrots/tomatoes
  • Bacon Egg & Cheese Sandwiches
  • Temperatures Over 60
  • Nightime in the Summer & Daytime in the Winter
  • Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
  • If it’s sunday morning… it’s meet the press
  • People over the age of 12 in customer service
  • Over 40gb a month of Internet
  • Cheap Alcohol
  • Bialys

I think that covers it.

]]> http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/05/27/one-year-living-abroad/feed/ 0 Subversion TIP For Work & Home http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/01/28/subversion-tip-for-work-home/ http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/01/28/subversion-tip-for-work-home/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:12:36 +0000 ben http://blog.sternthal.org/?p=421 Subversion is my current version control system of choice. However my work server does not have a dedicated domain. This means there are different IP addresses of the server when I am at home and when I am at work.

This is a royal pain in the ass.

To solve this I added a domain into my /etc/hosts file. Then I just comment out and enable the right one depending on where I am. This works for osx and if you are unlucky enough to be working on a pc, there is a similar hosts file you can change.

Example:


#svn settings
192.168.X.XX svn.foo.com
#XXX.XXX.XX.XX svn.foo.com

Then in your IDE you use svn.foo.com as the URL for subversion. No more switching repositories. Ahhhhhhhh :-)

]]> http://blog.sternthal.org/2009/01/28/subversion-tip-for-work-home/feed/ 1 Kevin Rose’s Blog, Google Sees Deep Into Your Psyche http://blog.sternthal.org/2008/12/12/kevin-roses-blog-google-sees-deep-into-your-psyche/ http://blog.sternthal.org/2008/12/12/kevin-roses-blog-google-sees-deep-into-your-psyche/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:03:35 +0000 ben http://blog.sternthal.org/?p=354 Not sure what on kevin rose’s blog is making google serve up gay bear single ads? Maybe google knows something we dont ;-) Just kidding…

]]> http://blog.sternthal.org/2008/12/12/kevin-roses-blog-google-sees-deep-into-your-psyche/feed/ 0