I just spent a bit reviewing a list of the feeds that hadn’t had any new posts for a while and finding a bunch that had moved. Instead of serving up a nice HTTP 301 with the new feed they instead had a post saying “Here’s my new blog, come check it out!”. […]
Live Free or Die Hard is everything I hoped it would be.
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface is pretty interesting.
The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into “Human-Computer Interaction.” In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on “interaction” may be misguided. For a majority subset of software, called “information software,” I argue that interactivity is […]
I stumbled upon Programmer’s Bill of Rights. It has the expected collection of things a programmer should have at the workplace, including fast computers, nice monitors, good working environment, etc. One bit in the post and one of the comments got me thinking.
In the post:
In college, I ran a painting business. Every painter I hired […]
Laughing at the native Californians reaction to a little chilly weather was amusing. This is ridiculous, though:
I had to beware of ice on the sidewalk while walking this morning.
I’ve disabled comments until I can take some time to Fix my comment spam issues. I have moderation on so the spammers aren’t cluttering up the site but they sure are cluttering my inbox/moderation queue.
Internet thugs make me weary.
The United States recently passed the 300 million people mark for population. I didn’t really think much of it last week.
A few minutes ago a thought struck me with great force:
Suppose some crazy, ridiculous, clearly nutjob idea was believed by only 0.01% of the United States population. That’s thirty thousand people. The same percentage of the […]
I love reading. I read a lot. I’ve been reading about the new Sony Reader.
The device I want has to have paper-like readability in any light I can read a paper book in now. I don’t want to worry about battery life. Cell phones have reached this milestone – I rarely think about my cell phone’s […]
Quick! Buy some companies before it’s too late! After all, paying lots of money for eyeballs is a strategy by itself.
It’ll be interesting to see how this new boom plays out. I particularly like the noise about how the YouTube purchase puts pressure on other companies to quickly make a “response.”
The full moon will appear nearly 12% bigger than usual tonight because it is near perigee. I noticed the moon last night and it seemed huge and it is thus interesting to learn that it does indeed appear bigger than normal rather than the usual illusionary bigness from being near the horizon.
Hooray, somebody finally cloned the parts of Copilot I wanted so I can use this technology to help family members without either paying for Copilot myself (not going to happen) or asking them to pay (happened a couple times but always felt kind of overpriced).
Lifehacker’s post UltraVNC Singleclick describes how to use it. It’s a version of the VNC […]
I got a new work laptop. I finished moving everything I care about from the old laptop. All I wanted to do was flush the disk in the old laptop. I always try to clear a machine’s disk before releasing control of it — either by turning it back to […]
ghostweather -> Berkun blog -> next-microsoft: Victimization ratio
Number of Problems you are powerless to solve
= Victimization Ratio
Total Number of Problems you are impacted by
Feeling powerless to resolve something you see as a serious problem sure is frustrating. What can one do?
Ignore it — the least likely to work out, since it’s still there […]
I mentioned Math for Programmers in the last post. My own experience leading me to reach the conclusion that I should also “repair my rusty math skills” expanded beyond what fit into the post…
I should know more math. Especially more of what is possible and at least the name of the […]
It’s been about two years since I started (again, but this time for real) reading articles regularly via feeds. I’ve been using the web to read stuff for much longer than that, of course, but there was a limit on how many sites I’d remember to look at. I’d played with RSS […]
What will radio programs do to make it clear that a voice is someone calling into the radio program rather than someone in the studio when phones sound good?
Someone I know mentioned people on myspace and xenga were regularly inlining images from his server. It made me wonder if anyone was doing that to my images.
I did some log analysis for photos.xythian.com and whatcartoon.
A few people were or are inlining my images. I was surprised to see someone inlining a whatcartoon […]
Via tingilinde:
A movie of the January 15 Stardust re-entry.
Movie taken from a NASA DC-8 aircraft as the Stardust sample return capsule entered the atmosphere in the early morning hours of Jan. 15, 2006.
This video is much cooler than the nothing I saw when I tried to watch the Stardust re-entry from bright, bright […]
Don Norman’s Design as Practiced describes some of the process and problems around redesigning the way Macs are turned on and off.
(Via BeatnikPad)
It always fascinates me to see a description of all the forces that end up affecting a seemingly relatively simple thing as standardizing how a machine should be turned on and off. […]
I don’t remember what I was searching for. Somehow, I stumbled upon Radio News on Radio Days, which has a collection of Creative Commons-NC/ND-licensed recordings of old radio broadcasts, including Edward R. Murrow’s Orchestrated Hell broadcast of December 3, 1943.
I had never heard such extended recordings from this time […]