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Aptana Studio
I’ve been looking for a decent PHP editor for my Macbook Pro – something like Dreamweaver, but free. I finally found it in Aptana Studio. It’s available for Mac, Windows and Linux. It has built-in support for PHP, Ruby on Rails, Python and Java, live FTP/FTPS editing, Subversion connectivity, and a lot more. Check it out!
Web Site
I’m working on a project, and I’m using my web site to test its functionality. For the few people that actually visit my blog, you may notice some bugs over the next 2 weeks with my site. I should have it wrapped up by then.
Curry
Wanda and I enjoy Thai food – especially curry. There are a couple of restaurants in the area that we enjoy very much, and we treat ourselves once in awhile. We have made curry at home in the past, and it was very good, but it wasn’t quite the same as our favorite Thai restaurants.
Initially, we quickly discovered that using Minute rice, although convenient, wasn’t cutting it. We switched to Jasmine rice, and that made a big difference. We experimented with various canned curries, but weren’t able to duplicate the flavor.
We eventually found a canned curry that we really like and one that is roughly as good as those we get from the authentic restaurants. You see, Wanda has always enjoyed the masaman curry from a Thai restaurant here in Appleton. Upon visiting a local Asian grocery, she decided to give Maesri’s Masaman Curry Paste a try. It turned out to be excellent! It combines the flavors that both of us enjoy from our favorite dishes into one can.
I recommend you give it a try.
Weekend
Wanda and I did more than we usually do on the weekend. Yesterday (Saturday), we went to the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay because Wanda had never been. We enjoyed a lot of the local history, although we could have done without the “dairy” and “Green Bay Packer” exhibits (not that I have anything against dairy, but the exhibits seemed more geared towards children). Overall, it was a good time.
We then took a quick trip to Circuit City to look for an HDTV antenna. After that, we logged many miles throughout Green Bay looking for a decent seafood place and just going for a “Sunday Drive.” We knew where Red Lobster was, but Wanda wanted to try something different. Eventually we decided to try Marty’s Boston Crab near the stadium.
The restaurant turned out to be a letdown. The bill+tip came to $70, which we wouldn’t have necessarily minded since it was a date; however, we expected a lot more for the price. We both ordered steak with “Dungeness crab legs”. Salads were extra @ $3.50/ea. For sides, Wanda chose Asiago mashed potatoes and a salad, and I chose the Asiago mashed with “pub chips with skins and seasoning”, which I assumed would be something like steak fries. I should have asked – they turned out to be overcooked potato chips. Wanda’s sirloin was very good, but my rib eye (which cost more) was all gristle. I make a way better New York strip at home for a lot less money. Finally, although the crab legs tasted very good, they were extremely meager. On a bright note, their seasoned bread was amazing, but it wasn’t all-you-can-eat like Red Lobster’s garlic cheddar muffins. Red Lobster for the win.
Today (Sunday) was fairly uneventful. Wanda wanted to go for a bike ride really badly with me to show off her new bike. I hadn’t ridden a bike in probably 9 years. I was very reluctant because a) I look gay on a bike, and b) I hadn’t intended on riding a bike again until after having kids (due to the male fertility thing). However, she got me to go along and it turned out to be fairly nice. We biked to the gas station to get a newspaper and then around the neighborhood a bit.
Wanda got a lot of cleaning done. I did a bunch of dishes and some laundry. Wanda was sweet enough to make a romantic dinner (”supper” for those of you in Rio Linda) of lobster tail, king crab legs, garlic cheddar muffins, and caesar salads. (Yes, we had seafood two nights in a row.) It was fantastic! My cat Josie couldn’t resist jumping on the kitchen table to investigate the strong smell of seafood. She hadn’t jumped on the table in quite some time since she knows she gets yelled at if she does.
We settled the night by listening to All Request Love Songs on I94 (which play Sunday nights from 8pm to midnight), while Wanda did her homework and I goofed off on my laptop.
March 26th, 2007 
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Tags: Food, green bay, museum, music, outdoors, quality time, seafood, more... Our First Macintosh
We bought a used iMac G3 (450MHz, 128MB RAM, OS X 10.1) from a friend. It was a good price, and we thought it would be a great way to sink our teeth into a Macintosh (at least in a way beyong what we’ve been exposed to by supporting them). I also thought it might be nice for testing web pages and other stuff. It runs pretty well, albeit a bit slow. I think we might throw some more memory in it. It’s a pretty nifty little machine.
Some may remember that I actually started on Apple’s back in the day. Apple IIe’s in grade school, and my first computer was an Apple IIgs, which offered a finder very similar to earlier versions of Mac OS (but was somewhat useless without a hard drive at the time). I switched over to the IBM-compatibles because BBSs were the big craze and anyone who was anyone with a BBS ran it on a DOS machine. Plus, Mac OS prior to X were simply dreadful, in my opinion. Since then I’ve used Windows, Linux, and OS/2, but have always sheepishly come back to Windows. Perhaps this time will be different. I like the BSD core OS X has, and I’m looking forward to the new Mactel machines.
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