Archive for September, 2005

That "Big Magazine" I mentioned recently will be publishing a small snippet from the phone interview I gave. Pick up the next Business Week, and check out the "Gearworld" section, for an article/sidebar written by Elizabeth Woyke and Peter Burrows. I don't come off sounding like either a raving lunatic, nor a drooling fanboy,... »

Note to self: take a hint... I got home today to find this postcard in my mailbox, sent by a local church for a series of chill-out workshops coming up this fall... So, along those lines, I'll try to finish up what I can tonight after The Boy goes to bed, then I'm going to be... »

From the "well, that's one way to take an afternoon and evening off" department... There was apparently some kind of chemical (or biological? nobody seems to know anything) spill in the Bio Sciences building shortly before noon today. Since the Learning Commons is on the 5th floor of BioSci, that means we all got to... »

Last night, it totally hit me just how fried I am. I've been fighting off burnout for awhile now, but I think I may have finally succumbed to it. I realized this when, at almost midnight, my family was upstairs fast asleep, and and I continued to work on my PowerBook to try to... »

Dear Ronald D. Moore... I am a total Battlestar Galactica junkie. Fell in love with the previews of the miniseries, and have been watching every episode since. Absolutely great stuff - some of the best scifi on tv. I love that it avoids the formulas as much as possible, and doesn't treat the audience like... »

I won't say the name of the mag, in case it doesn't get published - no need to add pressure to the writer - but I was just interviewed out of the blue by a writer for a Big Magazine (you know the one). She is researching an article on the iPod battery life... »

So, after switching to Safari RSS for a couple of months, and really liking the simple (i.e., nonexistent) interface and unified display, I finally got fed up with the quirks in the Safari implementation. Sometimes it would take 15 minutes for a large feed set to display, pegging the CPU at 100% for the... »

I'm still amazed at the quality of photographs coming through Flickr - through the "Interestingness" filter, as well as through some of the more specific tag feeds I subscribe to. Here's a snapshot of my Flickr Favorites - and this only holds the last 4 days or so of new additions. »

We had a great hacking session today, with Josh piped in over iChat and VNC from California, and King and I hunkered around his collection of Cinema Displays. We managed to replace our krufty jGenerator-powered flash file wrapper class with one based on JSwiff, in under a day. JSwiff takes care of the nastiness of... »

Ars Technica has a great reaction to the RIAA's reaction to Steve Jobs' comment about the RIAA being greedy. Now, the RIAA is claiming that it would be totally fair, and that the consumers would support or even demand, that the record labels get to charge more for songs sold via iTunes, and to get... »