All posts published during 2012.
"The best way to find information since the card catalog"
In my teens, I wrote a Tron work-alike called Light Runner in assembly for the Color Computer; I even got Prickly Pear Software to release it commercially. I can't find my source code, but I have a copy of the product on cassette tape. I didn't quite get it restored to working order, but I had some fun trying.
With the release of Rust 0.5, I polished up a little analysis of issues using R and the github issue API. I initially downloaded...
A couple years ago, I started using blogger because I wanted immersive hypermedia editing, and I wanted it for free. Well, you get what you pay for.
The Kansas City star's web site is obnoxious. The ad-supported content model is clearly failing. The publisher announced they're...
At first, the conversation was about a new iPod touch vs. a mobile phone. The battery in my youngest son's aging iPod touch lasts...
The Web and the Internet are, by design, decentralized. Noteable exceptions are the allocation of DNS and IP addresses, both...
A quote from Gruber, via Norvig in 2009, on the sociology of developing ontologies: In some domains, competing factions each want...
I'm purging another box of files today: college math & C.S. notes, including a few dozen transparencies I prepared for classes on...
My ideal personal accounting system would support double-entry accounting, with budgeting, reports, and charts have an open...
During an annual purge of old file boxes, I came across my 5 1/4 CoCo disks. Much of what I know about unix and linux actually...
This Roku Streaming Stick looks like a pretty good balance between the simplicity of integration and the upgradeability of...
My wife does a photo shoot with the boys for the Christmas card each year. I wanted to share a digital copy of the photo, but...
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