Recent Entries

Bluesfest 2008

date icon Posted 3 days, 5 hours ago
Giddy up boys and girls because another big festival is just around the corner, just as the Ottawa Jazz Festival wraps up. Yes, I’m talking about Ottawa Bluesfest. The largest blues festival in Canada is back with yet another great lineup of artists. The last few years have been pretty incredible but somehow the organizers keep finding great acts again and again. Obviously Feist is the big ticket this year, a far cry from the...
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iLife '08 & iWork '08

date icon Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
As all of you must know by now (why wouldn’t you, right?), last week Apple announced new version of its digital lifestyle suite as well as its productivity suite, iLife ‘08 and iWork ‘08. So what’s with this i-stuff? What is it anyway? iWork is Apple’s answer to Microsoft Office. It doesn’t try to be all that MS Office is, instead choosing to be different. iWork introduces a completely different workflow to document design...
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The Litigious Nation

date icon Posted 1 year ago
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a more ridiculous case of litigiousness than a judge suing his former dry cleaner for $67 million for a lost pair of pants (SCO v IBM comes pretty close). How insane is that? I had heard of this case before and I had a good laugh at some of the headlines it generated. CNN had another good one today with Judge aims to have pants suit ironed out...
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Past Entries

Looking for older entries? Well here are a few of the blog entries I've made recently. If what you're looking is not here I recommend you look in the archives or do a quick search.

Jazz Legends in Town Jun 21, 2007
ING Ottawa Marathon 2007 Jun 17, 2007
The Sad State of Canadian Mobile Access Apr 10, 2007
San Francisco Adventure Mar 14, 2007
EcliseCon Wrapup Mar 09, 2007
EclipseCon - Day 1 Mar 05, 2007
EclipseCon - Day 0 Mar 05, 2007
Mobile Application Insanity Feb 27, 2007
Mont Tremblant Trip Feb 24, 2007
Moving Downtown Feb 18, 2007

Gabriel Castro lives in Ottawa, Canada where he is a software engineer at IBM Canada. He's an avid runner and an amateur photographer.

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“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.”

Albert Camus

Tweaking Xcode build configurations
Fixing that annoying "Info.plist is missing" error in Xcode.
Flickr Guest Pass
Flickr's greatest unknown feature, guest passes for your friends.
Prompt magic
All you ever wanted to know about shell prompts care of Daniel Robbins.
Leopard Tweaking
Terminal codes to trick-out your Leopard install.
Keyboard Access to the Dock and Menu Bar
Have the dock and menu bar at your fingertips, a must for all UNIX geeks.
Screenflick
Shinny, new screecasting app for Mac OS X
EclipseCon 2008