George R.R. Martin Finally Finishes A Feast For Crows...
It's about time! George R.R. Martin has finally finished A Feast For Crows. According to Martin's official web site, Bantam Spectra (US) will be publishing the book on November 8th and HarperCollins Voyager (UK) will publish the book on October 25th.
Here's the release banner on Martin's web site:
Jenn & I Bought A Sofa And Loveseat!
Well, Jenn & I bought a new sofa and loveseat tonight. We've been looking for awhile now and finally just bought the bullet and bought one tonight. We were really having problems deciding what we wanted. We liked the idea of reclining sofas, but we didn't like the looks of a lot of the models.
We finally went back to a sofa we'd seen several months ago at Kittles. I generally like the looks of traditional sofas better, but we finally found a reclining sofa we both liked and we both felt a reclining sofa would fit our lifestyles better.
The third picture below I think is the actual color of the fabric we choose, but it's hard to tell from these pictures. We didn't go with leather because of the dogs (although we both generally liked the look of leather couches better.) We also wanted to go with a fabric that would hide the dog hairs (having both a Yellow and Black Lab make for lots of dog hair!) The colors in the couch are similiar to our old couch, but it actually has all the colors in our carpet.
Heading to Pittsburgh/Steelers Training Camp...
Jenn and I are heading to Pittsburgh for the weekend. We're planning on spending Saturday afternoon over in Latrobe at the Pittsburgh Steelers Training Camp. We're meeting up with a bunch of fellow Steeler fans we know. Should be a good time. It's even supposed to cool off for the weekend, which is great news.
I booked us a hotel room at the Courtyard by Marriot in downtown Pittsburgh for Saturday night. There's Pirates game in town that night, so if we don't decide to do something different, we might go check out the game. We're not big baseball fans, but I don't mind going to see a game in person from time to time—especially since we'll be just blocks from the stadium.
Is This Really Mac OS X v10.4.1 Running On A PC?
Gizmodo posted a screen shot of someone supposedly running Mac OS X v10.4.1 via a VMWare session. While I'm hoping this news is true, I'm suspected this is probably a fake screenshot. I've looked through VMWare's web site and can't find anything about upcoming support for the Mac OS X. I suspect this is just a rumor based on the fact that Apple has announced their plans to move to Intel-based processors.
However, the fact that Apple is making this move, it would see feasible that you could write a virtual machine to emulate the Apple specific hardware. It sure would be nice to be able to open up an Mac OS VM to test sites on the Mac. ;)
Getting A Thread Dump From CFMX Using StackTrace...
Brandon Purcell spawned off a serious of interested blog posts today when he posted his Obtaining a Thread Dump with ColdFusion or JRun running as a Windows Service. He talks about called StackTrace which you can use to get a trace dump of any running Java process (including applets running in the browser.) I download the application, but have yet to install it.
Anyway, Brandon's post spawned off an interested post by Steven Erat in which he points to the Debugging Stack Traces in ColdFusion MX technote on Macromedia's web site.
Both of these posts are worth reading and will definitely be useful for debugging in those times were CF crashes unexpectedly.