Archive for January 21st, 2005

NBA Troubles Mount in Portland

Friday, January 21st, 2005 at 3:54 pm

I’ve been a Lakers fan my whole life, and still remember when the Portland Trailblazers led by Clyde Drexler, Buck Williams, and Terry Porter ran us off the court — only to be thoroughly dominated by the MJ-led Bulls. Now the Trailblazers have a reputation for paying too much money for the “thugs” of the league. They finally got rid of Rasheed, and then this happens.

Some kid named Qyntel Woods goes and uses his pit bull in dog fights. If only he was high at the time… then he’d really trump Rasheed.

Maybe Paul Allen will finally get the hint and pursue some quality guys to play on his team. Or maybe not.

Posted in Basketball
by Jeff Pruett

Monospaced Programming Fonts

Friday, January 21st, 2005 at 2:42 pm

Every once in a while I get the urge to do some programming. These days my programming seems to be limited to PHP/MySQL web pages, but once in a while I like to write a quick windows utility to keep my skills up.

I’m thinking of writing an XMLRPC Blog client that takes advantage of Blogging platforms which support the MovableType and Blogger APIs.

In either case, good programming fonts are a must when using a code editor. There’s nothing worse than confusing a 0 with an O. Or an l with a 1.

I’ve been partial to Andale Mono for some time now, but I’m going to try Bitstream Vera Sans Mono to see what all the fuss is about.

Posted in Technology
by Jeff Pruett