Going green is something I am slowly becoming more interested in. I’m not really sure what steps exactly we need to take–I don’t think we have an inordinate impact on the environment, and to be honest, right my pocketbook is far more important. That said, I do drive a Honda Civic that I’ve been able [...]
I just got hit with the funniest link spam ever on this blog. It contained an obvious link to a porn site, but before that was this sentence: Cameron Diaz takes a big swig of soda and shows the world that she can belch! Nice. Technorati Tags: Cameron Diaz, soda, funny spam, belching
After you’ve looked at Visual Studio all day for a few days in a row, the brightness of the white background can really start to bother you, especially as LCD monitors get brighter and brighter. That’s why I’ve become a big fan of Dave Reed’s Dark Side theme for Visual Studio 2005. It took me [...]
For all of you who learned boolean algebra in your CS courses in college, I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news: your education was incomplete. The list of boolean tautologies and truth tables that you may have memorized or learned over time was wrong, with some startling and glaring errors. To rectify [...]
I really enjoyed and appreciated this essay from Raganwald about the user experience at work versus that of their home PC environments (among other topics). I particularly liked the point: And meanwhile, the very same users could walk across the street and buy themselves a much better PC for less money than we pay and [...]
I just had a nice reality check. Sort of pleasant in that I realized I could save a LOT of memory usage (like from 35MB down to 9 MB), but also aggravating because I have spent probably 10-20 hours developing a clever algorithm designed for speed. Lesson learned. I should have built the naive version [...]
According to his blog, Robert Jordan passed away yesterday. He fought a tough illness for quite a while. I became a big fan of The Wheel of Time a few years ago and forced myself to stop reading the books until the final one comes out. I loved the books because they were immense, detailed, [...]
We just got Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain in the NetFlix mail today, and we loved it. Definitely worth watching, a thinking movie, a feast for the eyes. The use of lights was spectacular. It was in the same realm as What Dreams May Come (though I liked that one better), but it also made me [...]
In developing an important component (which I will discuss soon) for my current personal project, there were a number of different algorithms which I could use to attack the problem. I wasn’t sure which one would be better so I decided to implement each of them and measure their time/memory usage. I have a series [...]
OK, It’s a bit old now, but I thought I’d show myself on the cover of Wired magazine. Cool, isn’t it? This was part of a promotion by Xerox where they printed 5,000 (more?) custom covers. This was the July issue. I mostly like how we’re obviously on the water in the picture, but not [...]
