Monthly Archives: March 2009

I’m retired

By zacharyc | Published: March 30, 2009

After 12 years of training cheerleading, I retired yesterday. I soft retired last year, but I found myself really missing it and wanting to get back involved. I joined the CheerGyms.com open team and cheered for them throughout the season. While I enjoyed cheering for the team, the logistics of the situation didn’t work out [...]

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The Climber: Clif Branded Wine

By zacharyc | Published: March 23, 2009

We went up to Napa this past Saturday. On the way back, after the majority of the car had consumed a significant amount of wine, we stopped off at Taylor’s Refresher for a burger before the drive home. One member of our crew decided that we should get a full bottle of wine. Just so [...]

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Modified JustSimple WordPress Theme

By zacharyc | Published: March 20, 2009

I’m not much of a PHP guy, but I chose WordPress for this blog because I feel it is the most stable, well refined, yet easy to use blogging tool out there. Once the platform was decided I started looking for themes that worked well. I finally found something that I really liked when I [...]

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C++ Coding Standard: The If Block

By zacharyc | Published: March 10, 2009

Almost two months ago I went to a CocoaHeads meeting during Macworld. They had Mike Lee talk. His presentation was about “Pimping Your App”. There were a bunch of interesting points, but one thing really stuck in my head. Mike was talking about how is a messy person in his life. His car is messy. [...]

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My First Vimeo Video

By zacharyc | Published: March 6, 2009

Today I made my first post to Vimeo. I found this old video of my gymnastics. It’s old, not completed, but was fun to find and fun to post. Enjoy Partial Sampler 2006 from Zachary Cohen on Vimeo.

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Apple’s iLife is TOO Good

By zacharyc | Published: March 3, 2009

In an amazing post on Daring Fireball John Gruber quotes the technology directory for a public school in Massachusetts: However, even iLife has its drawbacks in an educational setting. It simply hands so much to the students that they struggle with software (whether Windows, Linux, or even pro-level software on the Mac) that isn’t so [...]

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